From the December 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Chang is professor and vice-chairman of radiology informatics at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He also serves as medical director of enterprise imaging and of SOA infrastructure at University of Chicago Hospitals. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from Stanford University. Concurrent with his medical school training, he also received his Master of Science degree in engineering-economic systems from Stanford. Chang completed his residency and fellowship training in diagnostic radiology at Stanford University Hospital. Chang has been a member of the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee (RIC), American College of Radiology (ACR) Informatics Committee and the ACR Commission on Clinical Research and Information Technology. He has served as a member of the ACR Council Steering Committee and Editorial Board of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).
He serves as an informatics consultant to the RSNA for the RadSCOPE electronic education initiative. Dr. Chang has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, 11 book chapters, 99 abstracts and has been awarded six patents. He has given more than 500 invited lectures worldwide and has served as course director and/or faculty for more than 200 courses for RSNA and for the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in PACS and radiology informatics. He presented the 2012 New Horizons Lecture at the RSNA annual meeting. In 2002, Chang was named as one of the “Top 20 Most Influential People in Radiology” by Diagnostic Imaging. In 2005, he was inducted as a Fellow to the College of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR/SIIM). In 2010, he was named as one of the “25 Most Influential People in Imaging” by RT Image.
A distinguished leader in health care delivery and medical education, Dr. Burton P. Drayer is internationally known for his research using anatomic, physiologic and functional imaging of the aging brain. He was the first to define the normal and abnormal presence of brain iron using MRI. His research interests also include neurodegenerative disorders, brain infarction, xenon-enhanced CT for measuring regional cerebral blood flow, MR angiography, multiple sclerosis and intrathecal contrast media toxicity. Drayer is CEO of the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice and dean for Clinical Affairs, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Drayer also serves as the Dr. Charles M. and Marilyn Newman Professor and system chair of the Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine, and as executive vice president for Risk, the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
