Mansoor Fatehi, MD, CIIP

What is your current imaging informaticist role?

I am coordinator of the national brain mapping biobank where we clean and process brain related digital studies to be stored in single or grouped samples. I also serve as an enterprise PACS consultant to some major medical universities.

Indicate what SIIM volunteer role(s) you serve in, if any?

I have been a member of Global Outreach Committee for two terms and recently returned to chair this committee.

What do you love most about imaging informatics?

Modern imaging is inherently digital and imaging informatics plays a central critical role in modern medical diagnostics, regardless of the clinical subspecialty.

If you could choose anyone as a mentor, who would you choose?

I would love to be mentored by Khan Siddiqui, if inside the US and Luis Marti Bonmati, if in Europe.

What one thing – either industry-related or not – you learned in the last month?

The practical applications of LLMs in radiology reporting.

How do you define success?

It is not so easy to provide a generally applicable definition for success. But I think those who have been able to actualize some of their dreams may be o considered successful. Life is complex and you have a day to day challenge to find your way through a maze. Those who pass are successful.

What’s the last book you read or TV series you binged?

I love to read novels, the latest was “The Double” by Saramago. The last TV series which I watched and liked so much was a local Persian series titled “The Actor”.

People love the networking at SIIM. Do you have a networking/mentor story?

My first SCAR/SIIM experience was in Vancouver in 2004, where I was out of the circle and feeling lonely, at that time I became very impressed by a video titled “Digital Eye for Analog Guy” by Eliot Siegel, Paul Nagy, and Khan Sidiqqui. But I could not even guess I would be a fellow of the Department of Radiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in a few years. Although the conference is mainly based on a scientific program, the major advantage of in-person participation is networking, which is far beyond the training aspect of the annual conferences.