Paper 13405-501
Paper 13405-501
Promoting innovation in your team: Lessons learned from 40 years in medical imaging (Keynote Presentation)
17 February 2025 • 8:30 AM - 9:10 AM PST | Town & Country B/C
Abstract
The development of advanced cross-sectional imaging technologies, especially X-ray CT and MRI, are widely recognized as the most impactful inventions in health care during the last 50 years. During this period of transformative innovation in medical imaging, progress has been accelerated through collaborative efforts between medical physicists, physicians, and the medical imaging industry. Innovation can be accelerated through individual efforts to promote the creative process, as well as frameworks to enhance collaboration and invention amongst teams of researchers. The purpose of this lecture is to examine key elements of the inventive process that have contributed to the development of medical imaging in the past that can be leveraged for ongoing advances in healthcare in the future.
Presenter
Thomas M. Grist
Univ. of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (United States)
Thomas M. Grist, MD, FACR, received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Marquette Univ. in Milwaukee, WI, in 1981, and his doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1985. He completed his radiology residency at Duke Univ. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Dept of Radiology at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. From 2005-2023, Grist served as Chair of the Dept of Radiology at the Univ. of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. During his tenure as Chair, the Department grew to include 85 faculty, 20 fellows, and 32 residents with an annual budget of $75 million. Together with colleagues in Medical Physics and Radiology, Dr. Grist established the Imaging Sciences Center in the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, (WIMR) a nearly 50,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art facility devoted to the development of imaging technologies and their translation to clinical practice. Dr. Grist has lectured and published extensively.