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. 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. A lot of my outside-the-reading-room time goes to American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria work, rectal cancer and hepatobiliary tumor boards, and national committee work around rectal MRI and structured reporting. On the technology side, I evaluate new clinical AI tools, watch what CT and MRI vendors are shipping, and try to figure out which of it is going to make radiology and patient care better versus just louder.

The part of radiology I keep wanting to talk about is workflow. The clicks, the keystrokes, the macros, the wrist pain — or, in my case, a 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.