Michael Magnetta, MD

I’m a body radiologist at Endeavor Health and Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago. I went to medical school at Case Western Reserve, did residency and an abdominal imaging fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, and was previously at Northwestern Medicine. At Endeavor I serve as Vice Chair of Technology and Informatics for the radiology department.

I read mostly abdominal MRI and CT, plus ultrasound and plain films of just about any body part — nobody gets left out. A lot of my outside-the-reading-room time goes to rectal cancer and hepatobiliary tumor boards, national committee work around rectal MRI and structured reporting, and the technology side: evaluating new AI tools, watching what CT and MRI vendors are actually shipping, and trying to figure out which of it is going to make radiology better versus just louder. Most of the papers I’ve written started as a problem at the workstation and ended up on PubMed.

The part of radiology I keep wanting to talk about is the part nobody puts on a poster: the workflow. The clicks, the keystrokes, the macros, the wrist pain — or, in my case, the frozen shoulder. I write small scripts and HTML/JS tools to make reading faster and less repetitive — usually for myself, occasionally for friends. A few of them live behind the password gate on this site.

I have an Xbox controller wired up to my reading station as a foot-pedal replacement. Make of that what you will.