Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Program

Imaging Informatics Fellowship

The imaging informatics fellowship is combined with a clinical fellowship and provides a strong, dynamic curriculum in a wide variety of topics that fall under our broad definition of imaging informatics, which encompasses such diverse fields as clinical radiology, information technology, physics, engineering, business, and management training. It is our goal to provide a combination of clinical, technical, and management training for physicians who want to leverage information technology to transform health care as clinical leaders in a fun, challenging, and interactive fashion. We also provide extensive opportunity for research, including the option to become involved in a diverse potpourri of research and educational activities.

Fellows in Imaging Informatics will divide their time, with 3 days per week as part of a clinical fellowship in diagnostic radiology and 2 days for informatics. The informatics research laboratory is housed in a 2,800-sf open-plan facility on the medical campus, less than a block from the main hospital. Fellows will interact with information technology professionals, business leaders, and software developers to learn both theoretical and hands-on approaches for adapting innovations in information technology into health care. Fellows will learn techniques for bridging cultural barriers between the clinical environment and information technology and for aligning vendors and technology staff to successfully deploy clinical systems. Fellows are encouraged and mentored in the creation of manuscripts for peer-reviewed submission and are given the opportunity to take the certification examination for imaging informatics during their 1-year fellowship experience. Lean/Six Sigma certification is also available for interested participants, as is participation in meetings with industrial, government, and academic colleagues on a number of imaging informatics projects. Our past fellows have been very successful in applying their skills in leadership roles in academics, private practice, and industry.

For more information contact: Paul Nagy, PhD at: pnagy@umm.edu.

Faculty: Imaging Informatics Fellowship

Paul Nagy, PhD
Ken Wang, MD
Eliot Siegel, MD

Adjunct Faculty:
Mark Kelemen, MD
Jeffrey Hermann, PhD
Bill Majurski, PhD

Current Fellows:

Rishi Seth, MD
David Kho, MD
Kamran Shah, MD

Past Fellows:

Syed Ali, MD
Bill Boonn, MD
John Bradshaw, MD
James Chen, MD
Mansoor Fatehi, MD
Ross Filice, MD
Krishna Juluru, MD
Woojin Kim, MD
Paras Lakhani, MD
Nabile Safdar, MD
Khan Siddiqui, MD
Peter Vandermeer, MD
Jonah Zwemer, MD

Curriculum: Imaging Informatics Fellowship

Research
Quasi-experimental study design
Surveying methods
Honest broker architectures
IRB implications in informatics
Management
Leadership roles in health care
Organizational design
Business intelligence
Quality (Lean/Six Sigma)
Negotiation techniques
Human-Computer Interface design
Requirements gathering
Usability analysis
Workflow modeling
Information visualization
Technical
Technology assessment (inc. storage area networks, server architectures, network mesh design, service-oriented architecture, database design and SQL, high availability design, and HIPAA and security)
Interoperability topics (inc. HL7/DICOM, IHE, Web services, and extract/transform/load)
Systems management (inc. IT infrastructure library and computerized maintenance management systems)

This page was last updated on: December 2, 2011.