Medical Imaging Consultant: MRI Imaging Applications and Use

Technical Consultant #1200

Independent Consultant, Present

Provides medical imaging strategies and outsource management to clinical development and business groups from the pharmaceutical, medical device, managed care and biotechnology industries.

Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, PA, Staff Radiologist, 2004 - 2007

Undisclosed Company, Principal and Founder, 2006 - Present

Service organization providing radiologist and oncologist blinded reader experts and consults for medical product development.

Doshi Diagnostic Imaging, Brooklyn, NY, Staff Radiologist, 2001 - 2003

HealthHelp, Inc., Medical Director, New York, NY, 2001 - 2003

Responsible for managing radiology services for more than 2 million managed care participants in New York/New Jersey area.
Developed and implemented comprehensive radiology management program for a regional Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurers.
Established and chaired regional peer groups implement referring physician education on appropriate radiology utilization.
Chief, MRI: Foundation for Radiology Educational Excellence.

Berlex Laboratories, Montville, NJ, Director, Diagnostic Imaging Clinical Development, 1997 - 2000

Managed clinical development of all radiologic, ultrasound, and, nuclear, and MRI contrast agent.
Responsible for managing clinical development and all medical post-marketing activities for radiology, MRI, and ultrasound contrast agents.
Represented medical team with FDA imaging division.
initiated new clinical indications for MRI contrast for cardiovascular MRI, hepatobiliary MRI, and blood pool contrast agents.

Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, Director, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 1991 - 1997

Managed clinical, research, teaching, and business operations.
Developed active and profitable Body MRI service with strong external referral base including orthopedic, sports medicine, urologists, OB/GYN, cardiovascular surgeons, oncologists.
Developed new clinically-useful imaging techniques in collaboration with MRI manufacturers for body imaging and MRA.
Developed Breast MRI program and integrated breast MRI into Lombardy Cancer Center comprehensive breast cancer and breast implant evaluation; served on NCI Breast MRI Advisory Board.

Licensure

District of Columbia, State of New York, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Board Certification
F.L.E.X.
American Board of Radiology

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Internal Medicine Internship, Providence Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Diagnostic Radiology Residency, Department of Radiology, Georgetown University Hospital
Chief Resident, Department of Radiology, Georgetown University Hospital
Fellowship in MRI, CT, and Ultrasound, Division of Body
Imaging, Georgetown University Hospital, National Institutes of Health
Radiology - Pathology Correlation Course, Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

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