MIDRC team.
MIDRC principal investigators at the 2022 RSNA annual meeting; From left to right: Michael Tilkin, Paul Kinahan, Adam Flanders, Kris Kandarpa (NIBIB), Curtis Langlotz, Maryellen Giger (Not pictured Charles Apgar and Robert Grossman)
The National Institutes of Health has launched the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), an ambitious effort that will harness the powers of artificial intelligence, and medical imaging to fight COVID-19. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is funding the effort through a contract to Maryellen Giger, PhD, of the University of Chicago, principal investigator (PI) of the NIBIB MIDRC contract. The MIDRC effort is co-led by the three medical imaging associations with Charles Apgar, and Michael Tilkin, MS, from the American College of Radiology® (ACR®), Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD, and Adam Flanders, MD, representing the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and Maryellen Giger, PhD, and Paul Kinahan, PhD, representing the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
The public access "front door" of MIDRC is hosted by the state-of-the art Gen3 Data Ecosystem under leadership of Robert Grossman, PhD, and housed at the University of Chicago.
University of Chicago, AAPM
Maryellen L. Giger, PhD, is the principal investigator of the NIBIB MIDRC contract and Distinguished Service A.N. Pritzker Professor of Radiology, Committee on Medical Physics, and the College at the University of Chicago. She is also the Vice-Chair of Radiology (Basic Science Research) at the University. For over 30 years, she has conducted research on computer-aided diagnosis, including computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning.
Maryellen Giger, contact PI
Paul Kinahan
University of Washington, AAPM
Paul E. Kinahan, PhD, is a Tenured Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering and the Vice-Chair of Research for Radiology, with joint appointments in Radiation Oncology and Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also the Head of the Imaging Research Laboratory and Clinical Director of PET/CT Imaging Physics.
ACR®
Charles Apgar is the executive vice president of the ACR Center for Research and Innovation. He has helped supervise operations for numerous clinical trials, including the National Lung Screening Trial and the Digital Mammography Screening Trial.
Charles Apgar
ACR®
Mike Tilkin, MS, is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Executive Vice President for Technology at the American College of Radiology. In that capacity, he leads IT and informatics initiatives that support the broad ACR portfolio, including accreditation, national data registries, education, and clinical research. Mr. Tilkin is engaged in standards and informatics efforts nationally and is responsible for the ACR Data Science Institute, a division of the ACR dedicated to promoting the research, development, and adoption of artificial intelligence in imaging.
Michael Tilkin
Curtis Langlotz
Stanford University, RSNA
Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD is Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI Center) at Stanford University. As Associate Chair for Information Systems and a Medical Informatics Director for Stanford Health Care, he is responsible for the computer technology that supports the Stanford Radiology practice. Dr. Langlotz serves on the Board of Directors of RSNA as the Liaison for Informatics.
Thomas Jefferson University, RSNA
Adam Flanders, MD, is Professor of Radiology and Rehabilitation Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and Enterprise Vice-Chair for Imaging Informatics.. He also serves as an Informatics Advisor to the RSNA.
Adam Flanders
University of Chicago, Gen3
Robert L. Grossman, PhD, is the Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Computer Science and the Jim and Karen Frank Director of the Center for Translational Data Science at the University of Chicago. He is the Co-Chief of the Section of Computational Biomedicine and Biomedical Data Science in the Department of Medicine, and has been the chief research informatics officer of the Biological Sciences Division since 2011.
Robert Grossman
Erin Mueller
University of Chicago, MIDRC Central
Erin Mueller is the Director of Finance and Administration for MIDRC, responsible for providing administrative oversight of MIDRC operations and finances and supporting the advancement of MIDRC strategic research initiatives. Erin has an extensive tenure spanning over two decades, during which she has held diverse leadership positions within the realms of higher education and grants and contracts research administration.
University of Chicago, MIDRC Central
Katherine (Katie) Pizer is the Lead Administrator for MIDRC and concurrently serves as the Executive Director of Research Administration for the Biological Sciences Division within the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She provides support to the 7 MIDRC Principal Investigators (PIs) and investigators dispersed across the 27 subsites. Katie brings over 15 years of experience from the University of Chicago, where she's held multiple roles in research administration.
Katherine Pizer
MIDRC Participating Organizations and Investigators.
Creation of MIDRC is being accomplished through five main Technology Development Projects that build upon the inter-dependence and synergy across ACR, RSNA, and AAPM. In addition, MIDRC supports 12 synergistic Collaborating Research Projects involving multiple academic institutions across the United States, all operating under principles of open science. Thus, MIDRC spans the nation and the medical imaging community.
Misgena Abuhay
Charlie Apgar, ACR
Brian Bialecki, ACR
Amy Breheim
Caroline Chiles, Wake Forest
Laura Coombs, ACR
DA Forsyth, UIUC
Jim Gimpel
Kris Glasmire
Dinakar Gopalakrishnan
Donna Hartfeil
Albert Hsiao, UCSD
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, UColorado Anschutz
Sharyn Katz, U of Pennsylvania
Despina Kontos, U of Pennsylvania
Sanmi Koyejo, Stanford
Sujith Nair
Sailaja Marella
Nijat Muhtar
Etta Pisano, ACR
Ayis Pyrros, DuPage Medical Group
Ricardo Amaya Romero
Joel Saltz, SUNY-Stony Brook
Alexander Schwing, UIUC
Nasir Siddiqui, DuPage Medical Group
Purva Thakur
Suvekshya Thapa
Michael Tilkin ACR
Laura Turbe
Heather Stevens
Deepak Kattil Veettil
Samuel Armato, University of Chicago
Nick Bevins, Maine Medical Center
John Boone, UC-Davis
Weijie Chen, FDA
Karen Drukker, University of Chicago
Issam El Naqa, Moffitt
Andrey Fedorov, BWH
Jordan Fuhrman, University of Chicago
Maryellen Giger, University of Chicago
Naveena Gorre, Moffitt Cancer Center
Lubomir Hadjiyski, U Michigan
Andrew Hernandez, University of California, Davis
Tingting Hu, FDA
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, University of Colorado
Grace Hyun Kim, UCLA Paul Kinahan, U of Washington - Seattle
Diane Lauderdale, University of Chicago
Hui Li, University of Chicago
Michael McNitt-Gray, UCLA
Kyle Myers, Puente Solutions LLC
Sandy Napel, Stanford
Berkman Sahiner, FDA
Mena Shenouda, University of Chicago
Emily Townley, AAPM
Ali Unieri, Johns Hopkins
Heather Whitney, University of Chicago
Chris Carr, RSNA
Akshay Chaudhari, Stanford
Tessa Cook, U of Pennsylvania
Steve Drew, RSNA
Colin Eggers, RSNA
Michael Evans
Adam Flanders, Jefferson University
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, UColorado Anschutz
Jon Ludwig, RSNA
John Mongan, UCSF
Curtis Langlotz, Stanford
Matthew Lungren, Stanford
Bhavik Patel, Mayo Clinic
Luciano Prevedello, Ohio State University
George Shih, Cornell University
Chinmay Singhal, MD.ai
Carol Wu, MD Anderson
Johnbright Anyaibe
Craig Barnes
Xiao Dong
Michael Fitzsimons
Eric Giger
Robert Grossman
Ali Lahrime
Tiffany LaSage
Ao Liu
Tara Lichtenberg
Clint Malson
Ed Malinsowki
Chris Meyer
Sai Narumanchi
Thanh Nguyen
Delphine Nicolas
Anna-Marie Nuila-Chae
Andrew Prokhorenkov
Hara Prasad
Juvvala Atharva
Rane Jarvis Raymond
Pauline Ribeyre
Christopher Stephanos
Peter Vassilatos
Aarti Venkat
Bill Winslow
Fred Prior, U of Arkansas
“MIDRC central”
Samuel Armato
Gillian Campbell
Chun-wai Chan
Karen Drukker
Nicholas Gruszauskas
Maryellen Giger
Erin Mueller
John Papaoiannou
Katherine Pizer