My son, Greg, Jr., MD has accepted a fellowship from the Department of Radiology and Imaging at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) of the Cornell University Medical School in Manhattan for one year starting in July of 2009. He will be specializing in musculoskeletal imaging. HSS at present is nationally ranked as No. 1 in orthopedics and No. 3 in rheumatology by U. S. News & World Report. They pioneered the first total knee replacement. They are team physicians and athletic trainers for these teams and many, many more:
- New York Knicks
- New York Mets
- New York Giants
- Nets Basketball
- New York Liberty
Greg is currently in his fourth year of radiology residency at Christiana Care in Delaware where his wife Jen is chief resident in medical pediatrics.
Quoted: “Hospital for Special Surgery is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. It is a member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and an affiliate of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and cooperates in patient care with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and The Rockefeller University. All HSS medical staff are on the faculty of Weill Medical College of Cornell University.”
When Greg was in high school I told him it was my opinion that the most important advances in medicine for the next twenty years would come from medical imaging. At that time, experiments were being performed by pioneers in 3D imaging. Since then, use of 3D imaging has advanced and the most important development just might be acceptance by the medical community and validation of these non-invasive procedures with invasive procedures on the same patients. Also, interventional radiology (IR) has developed into an important medical practice. IR is practiced by radiologists that work with a surgeon in the operating room to achieve minimal invasion and precise location of tumors and such using image guidance.
I think that the biggest advances are yet to come. The challenges include: high equipment cost, slow process for confirming 3D images, and a shortage of trained medical personnel for some modes. Propelling 3D medical imaging forward are: rapid advances in computers and software necessary for image processing, and visualizations that give people almost instant understanding.
Expect to see more posts on medical imaging in the future here.