Going global Made-in-Calgary imaging registry to expand internationally By Dawn Smith
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r. James White, MD, director of the Libin Institute’s Stephenson Cardiovascular Imaging Centre and a professor at UCalgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, has spent over a decade developing novel ways that medical images can help predict patient outcomes. His expanding research program, called the Personalized Diagnostics Program (PDP), focuses on how data collected at the time of heart imaging tests can be used to predict an individual’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease or its complications. These tools allow physicians to tailor care plans to each individual patient, a concept called Personalized Medicine. “While today’s electronic health records are excellent for monitoring patient care and patterns of health, they lack the raw data
