Industry and Medical Imaging Innovator Spotlight - Radiologist Dr. Leonardo Valentin joins NVIDIA, first physician on the team, enabling the future for artificial intelligence in radiology

As part of our series of Industry and Medical Imaging Innovator Spotlights, radRounds has the honor to introduce and interview Radiologist, Dr. Leonardo Valentin.   Dr. Leonardo Valentin joins NVIDIA, first physician on the team, with a key leadership role in medical imaging at NVIDIA, enabling the future for artificial intelligence in radiology._________________________________________________________radRounds:Why did you go into radiology?Dr. Valentin: I began thinking about radiology when I was in college. I was majoring in computer science through a joint pre-med informatics track at the University of Miami and I had this concern that a medical practice would take me away from computing. On the other hand, my father is a vascular surgeon and I enjoyed the innovative aspects of surgery at that time. I began exploring career paths that would allow me to practice both radiology and vascular surgery. Throughout this process I fell in love with vascular interventional radiology which seemed to marry the best aspects of both of my passions._________________________________________________________radRounds:  Why are you working at NVIDIA and not a radiology practice or academic practice where you could be doing research in AI?Dr. Valentin: This is a very good question. In general, the people we serve expect medicine to improve with time. From testing new pills to new procedures—innovation is as important to medicine as it is to other areas of science and technology.Innovati...
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