Adam E. Flanders, MD
Philadelphia, PA
Adam E. Flanders, MD, is the RSNA Board liaison for information technology.
Dr. Flanders is professor of radiology and rehabilitation medicine and vice chairman of imaging informatics at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He earned his medical degree in 1983 from Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center, where he served as chief resident in 1986. After completing a fellowship in neuroradiology at Jefferson in 1989, he joined the Jefferson faculty. In 2022, he was named the William E. Conrady, MD, Professor of Radiology Informatics.
Dr. Flanders previously served as the associate editor for RadioGraphics in informatics and is a prior member of the RSNA News Editorial Board. From 2011 to 2017, Dr. Flanders served as chair of the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee (RIC). He also chaired the Neuroradiology RadLex and Reporting and Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC) subcommittees and is a past chair of the RSNA Digital Roadmap Subcommittee which led to development of RSNA Case Collection. He also previously served RSNA as an informatics advisor to the RIC and has been a continual member of the Machine Learning/Data Science Committees, Common Data Elements (CDE) Committee and has been a faculty member of the RSNA AI Certificate Program.
Dr. Flanders also served on the program committee for the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and was awarded the SIIM fellowship for contributions to imaging informatics research and education. He is also a Certified Imaging Informatics Professional (CIIP) granted by the American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII).
Dr. Flanders co-authored the “Digital Roadmap” for the National Institutes of Health/RSNA/American College of Radiology (ACR)/The Academy Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging, identifying and prioritizing needs for academic research laboratories, professional societies and industry. He has also helped to facilitate several neuroimaging-based AI challenges with RSNA in collaboration with the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2024.
A past president of the American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR), he has also served in multiple roles for ASNR, including as chair of its Rules Committee, a member of the Nominating Committee and as deputy editor for NeuroGraphics. He now chairs the ASNR CDE workgroup in collaboration with the ACR and RSNA. In 2024, Dr. Flanders was selected to serve on the ACR's Board of Chancellors.
Dr. Flanders’ research interests have focused primarily on application of MRI in the evaluation of human spinal cord injury (SCI), and he has been funded by RSNA, the Nielson Foundation and the Department of Defense to evaluate the capabilities of MR and diffusion imaging in forecasting neurologic recovery in SCI. He has been a funded subject matter expert for the National Cancer Institutes (NCI) Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) and more recently is a principal investigator for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC) which is focused on assembling large, diverse imaging datasets for AI research. In 2023, he was named a Distinguished Investigator by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research (ARBIR).
Dr. Flanders was honored with the RSNA Outstanding Educator Award in 2021 for recognition of his many contributions through publications and technology to enhance radiology education. In 2021, he received the Honored Radiologist of the Year Award by the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society and in 2019 he was part of the Provost Team Award for Interdisciplinary Research at Thomas Jefferson University.