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Khan M. Siddiqui MD

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Chevy Chase, MD

Professional summary

Dr. Khan Siddiqui is the CEO/CTO of higi, LLC, a startup bringing social gaming principals to health and wellness and visiting associate professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prior to joining higi, he was a physician executive and principal program manager at Microsoft responsible for platform engineering for health solutions group. At Microsoft, Dr. Siddiqui led the medical imaging vision, strategy and engineering execution and grew the business from zero to multiple released products with imaging support in 4 years. Dr. Siddiqui was responsible for platform engineering for big data, cloud and personal health platform at Microsoft. One of his key achievements at Microsoft was stimulating computer vision research that led to creation of classification forest algorithm which is the foundation technology in Xbox Kinect that enables controller less gaming experience. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was president and CEO of iVirtuoso (www.yottalook.com), a healthcare search company, providing semantic search technology for the healthcare sector. He is the Chair of IT and Informatics Committee and member of Commission on Research and IT for the American College of Radiology; he serves on the IHE Radiology Planning Committee; Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Finance and Administration Committee and is a member of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) scientific program committee. He was past chair of the Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics, and Therapeutic conference for the SPIE medical imaging. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Siddiqui was the chief of imaging informatics and cardiac CT/MR imaging at the VA Maryland Healthcare system and program director for the imaging informatics fellowship at University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. As the chair of the ACR ITI committee, Dr. Siddiqui provides oversight and guidance to the college regarding its government relations activities, standards and guidelines development and accreditation processes related to healthcare information technology. He also provides guidance to various federal agencies on medical imaging IT. 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 the University of Maryland and VA Maryland Health Care System. He has numerous publications and has presented over 200 informatics papers at major scientific meetings. His research spans multiple domains in informatics and body/cardiac imaging, with research focus on search, human factors, ergonomics, 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 international level include digital imaging and PACS, telemedicine, the electronic medical record, health information exchanges, and informatics. Dr. Siddiqui in the past has been on the medical and scientific advisory boards for major PACS and healthcare IT vendors. He has also provided guidance and direction regarding healthcare IT implementation to major vendors, health care institutions and imaging ventures.