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

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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.  

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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, ACR

Charlie Apgar, ACR

Brian Bialecki, ACR

Sarah Beth Bdoyan

Amy Breheim, ACR

Brian Bialecki, ACR

Caroline Chiles, Wake Forest

Laura Coombs, ACR

Jim Gimpel, ACR

Kris Glasmire, ACR

Dinakar Gopalakrishnan, ACR

Donna Hartfeil, ACR

Albert Hsiao, UCSD

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, UColorado Anschutz

Sanmi Koyejo, Stanford

Sailaja Marella, ACR

Nijat Muhtar, ACR

Sujith Nair, ACR

Etta Pisano, ACR

Stefan Ryan, ACR

Ricardo Amaya Romero, ACR

Kendall Schmidt

Meesam Shah

Heather Stevens, ACR

Michael Tilkin ACR

Purva Thakur, ACR

Suvekshya Thapa, ACR

Laura Turbe, ACR

Deepak Kattil Veettil, ACR

Tao Wang, ACR


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

Zihan Li

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