Ravi Shrestha, PhD, DIC, FFBA, BEng

What is your current imaging informaticist role?

Informatics strategy, solution delivery and clinical engagement.

What is your SIIM Persona?

Scientist, Vendor, Imaging IT.

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

Vice Chair, SIIM Global Outreach Committee

What do you love most about imaging informatics?

The power of imaging informatics to optimally acquire patient data, automate processing and metamorphosise patient information to provide quality care for patients. Imaging informatics functions as the fluid that connects healthcare ecosystems.

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

My very first professional mentor – Dr Jeremy Hyde.

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

The challenges and methods to mobilize, motivate and change global teams towards a unified KOL strategy.

How do you define success?

When we see patients continually benefit from our solutions

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

Race Across the World.

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

The quintessential value and DNA – from SCAR to SIIM – has been the opportunity to have very close collaboration and in-person networking with the leaders of the informatics industry globally. The collaboration, and inherent friendship developed really helps drive our strategic vision as we embark on our daily deliverables. I would be happy to share the many stories as we cross paths!