MGH Site Miner Named

Dr. Rajiv Gupta to serve as CIMIT liaison to the Mass General community.

Rajiv Gupta, MD, PhD, has been named to the role of CIMIT Site Miner for Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). 

In this role, Dr. Gupta will work closely with entrepreneurial-minded clinicians in identifying unmet medical needs and then connecting those physician-scientists with engineers whose expertise can help them explore potential solutions to their pressing clinical problems.   Dr. Gupta will actively network and collaborate with site miners of the 12 other CIMIT consortium institutions in facilitating the CIMIT mission to improve patient care through technology-enabled, innovation in healthcare.

Dr. Gupta earned his MD at Cornell University and his PhD in Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  In addition to serving as the CIMIT Site Miner for MGH, he is the director of the MGH Ultra-high Resolution Volume CT Lab.  An instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gupta’s clinical specialties include Cardiovascular and Neuroradiology.  Prior to joining MGH, Dr. Gupta was a Computer Scientist at GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY, conducting research in medical imaging, non-destructive evaluation of aircraft engine parts, and computer vision.  He also served on the faculty of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Electrical Engineering Systems.

About CIMIT

CIMIT is the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. A ten-year-old non-profit consortium of Boston-area teaching hospitals and engineering schools, CIMIT provides innovators with resources to explore, develop and implement novel technological solutions for today’s most urgent healthcare problems. Participants in the consortium are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Partners HealthCare and VA Boston Healthcare System.