About Us

Khan M. Siddiqui, MD, is chief of imaging informatics and cardiac CT/MR imaging at the VA Maryland Health Care System, in Baltimore, MD. He serves on the Society for imaging informatics in medicine (SIIM) online communications and education committees and is a member of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) MIRC committee, where he is helping to develop open source electronic teaching file and image-based multi-center clinical trial applications.

Dr. Siddiqui completed his internship at New York University followed by diagnostic radiology residency and body imaging fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA. He was the first imaging informatics fellow at University of Maryland and VA Maryland Health Care System. He has numerous publications and has presented over 100 informatics papers at major scientific meetings. His research spans multiple domains in informatics and body/cardiac imaging, with primary research focus on automated image analysis and computer aided detection. He has done extensive research on the analysis of radiologists' interpretation process using automated data mining and analysis tools. His areas of interest at both the national and local level include digital imaging and PACS, telemedicine, the electronic medical record, Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), and informatics.

Dr. Siddiqui is on medical and scientific advisory boards for major PACS and health care IT vendors. He has also provided guidance and direction regarding health care IT implementation to major vendors, health care institutions and imaging ventures.

As faculty of one of the few medical imaging informatics fellowships in the nation for radiologists, Nabile Safdar has collaborated on cultivating a comprehensive curriculum encompassing core research, clinical, and professional competencies for imaging informaticists with radiology backgrounds. Having earned a Certificate of Distinction from his department and the Roger A. Bauman Best Student Paper Award from the Society of Computer Applications in Radiology (now SIIM) during his own fellowship, his work during that time has continued to serve as the basis for the resident informatics curriculum and an innovative ongoing advanced course of study offered as a year-long combined research/clinical fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Besides planning, designing, and conducting several large research studies, Dr. Safdar has command of numerous subject areas, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), PACS design and architecture, reading room ergonomics, perception, image compression, imaging standards (HL-7, DICOM, IHE), and quality improvement initiatives.

While currently serving in his role as a radiologist in the musculoskeletal and pediatric imaging divisions of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Dr. Safdar continues his academic and clinical informatics responsibilities as a mentor in the ongoing informatics fellowship and as the active physician team-member of the radiology information technology department on several projects involving the testing and implementation of new clinical systems. The combination of his expertise in informatics and demonstrated leadership abilities have secured his position on several institutional committees, including a seat on the hospital-wide Physician Advisory Committee for optimization of University of Maryland's Millenium computerized physician order entry system (CPMOE), Six Sigma Process Improvement Program, and Diagnostic Radiology Image Quality Committee.

Woojin Kim graduated magna cum laude with Honors from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 2001, where he was a Junior AOA. He completed his transitional year training at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, and then he completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Chief Resident. He received his board-certification in radiology in June, 2006. He completed a musculoskeletal radiology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and imaging informatics fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center/Baltimore VA Maryland Healthcare System.

He was a Gamble Scholar as a medical student, which was one of six merit-based full-tuition scholarships for all four years. During medical school, he received Student Fellowship Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Merck Manual Award and O.H. Perry Research Award. In 2006, he won Baum-Laufer Award for excellence in service to Penn radiology residency. Most recently, he was American Heart Association Young Investigators Competition Runner-up for his work on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Rapid Disposition of Low Risk Emergency Department Patients with Chest Pain Syndromes, which was presented at the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging 2006. Dr. Kim has 12 publications/accepted manuscripts.

Recent operational experience includes evaluation and implementation of an enterprise 3D processing system for a large, distributed healthcare system, and planning and onsite management of an extended PACS and RIS downtime.

Dr. Kim serves as a refresher course instructor for RSNA and also sits on the RadioGraphics InfoRad Exhibit Review Panel for RSNA.

William Boonn is currently the Associate Clinical Director for Imaging Informatics at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow in Cardiovascular Imaging. He completed medical school training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and transitional medicine internship at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He completed diagnostic radiology residency training at the University of Pennsylvania where he served as Chief Resident. During the research year of his research track residency, he participated in the Imaging Informatics Fellowship program at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Baltimore VA Medical Center in Baltimore MD. In addition to his radiology training, Dr. Boonn is also Founder and President of MedicalPocketPC.com Inc. as well as Principal at iVirtuoso Inc.

Dr. Boonn has presented scientific papers at a number of national radiology meetings including RSNA, SCAR (now SIIM), ARRS, SPIE, STR, and NASCI. He was invited by RSNA as a session moderator in 2004 and as a guest faculty for SCAR University in 2004 and 2005. At the SCAR 2006 meeting, his presentation, Radiologist Use of and Perceived Needs for Patient Data Access in the Interpretation Proccess won the Roger A. Bauman award for best paper presented by a radiology trainee. He is the recipient of the 2006 SCAR Research Grant for work on An Open-Source Web-Based Application for Radiology Decision Support. In 2006, Dr. Boonn was recognized as a semifinalist in the Auntminnie.com "Minnies" award in two categories: "Most Influential Radiology Researcher" and "Scientific Paper of the Year" and in 2007, he won the Baum-Laufer Award for excellence in service to the University of Pennsylvania Radiology Residency.

Recent operational experience includes evaluation and implementation of an enterprise 3D processing system for a large, distributed healthcare system, planning and onsite management of an extended PACS and RIS downtime, and evaluation and implementation of a department-wide teaching file system.

Research interests include performance evaluation of 3D analysis tools, optimizing 2D and 3D workflow at the PACS workstation, and use of Dashboard technologies to improve workflow efficiency, clinical data access, and communication.

Eliot Siegel is Professor and Vice Chairman at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Radiology as well as chief of radiology and nuclear medicine at the VA, Maryland Healthcare System. Dr. Siegel is also Workspace Lead of the National Cancer Institute's caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace.

He has the distinction of having the first hospital-wide filmless radiology department in the world. Dr. Siegel has written over 200 articles and book chapters about topics in digital imaging and has edited six books on the topic. He has given talks throughout the world on a broad range of topics involving the use of computers in medicine. He has been named as Research of the Year, received multiple awards for innovation, and was selected as runner up Educator of the Year for Diagnostic Radiology. He was symposium chairman for the Society of Photo-optical and Industrial Engineer's Medical Imaging Meeting, chair of Publications for the Society of Computer Applications in Radiology, and chairman of the RSNA's Medical Imaging Resource Committee.

Steven Horii is Professor of Radiology and Clinical Director of the Medical Informatics Group at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Often referred to as "Doctor DICOM", Dr. Horii has been involved in the development of the DICOM standard from its earliest stages in1984 to the present time where he serves as a member of the DICOM Standards Committee representing the American College of Radiology.

Dr. Horii was among the first group of seven Fellows elected by the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) in May, 2000. He has also been a member of SCAR since it's inception, and served a term on the Radiology Information Systems Consortium (SCAR's predecessor) Board of Directors. Currently for SCAR, he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Digital Imaging. Dr. Horii has been honored by his colleagues with an election to Fellowship in the American College of Radiology. He was also given an "Excellence in Diagnostic Imaging" award by Diagnostic Imaging Magazine in the year 2000. The same organization named him as "one of the twenty most influential people in radiology" for his work on DICOM.