RSNA 2024 President's Address

Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD, is RSNA president. A renowned imaging informatics leader and committed advocate for improved clinical communication, he is professor of radiology, medicine and biomedical data science, director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, senior fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and senior associate vice provost for research at Stanford University. As a medical informatics director for Stanford Health Care, he sets strategy for the computer technology that supports the Stanford Radiology practice.

“If we want to thrive as a specialty, we need to build a new foundation for our practice, one that’s based on connections,” Dr. Langlotz said.

In his President’s Address, he will emphasize the importance of connections between people and with technology to innovate and improve patient care. The future of health care, in his vision, requires embracing the ways in which human and machine intelligence can ultimately make each other better, a whole that is stronger than each of its parts. Radiology has historically succeeded by embracing new technology, and that uniquely positions the field to lead medicine into a bright future.

A longtime RSNA member, Dr. Langlotz served for many years on RSNA’s Radiology Informatics Committee and has served the Society as an informatics advisor. He led the development of numerous RSNA informatics initiatives, including the RadLex terminology standard, the LOINC-RadLex Playbook of standard exam codes and the RSNA imaging AI certificate program.

Dr. Langlotz has also served as a member of the RSNA Publications Council, the Research Development Committee, the Radiology Editor Search Committee and the Steering Committee for the RSNA Digital Roadmap. He has served on the RSNA Board of Directors since 2016 as the Liaison for Information Technology and Annual Meeting and as board chair in 2023.

His biomedical informatics research laboratory aims to reduce diagnostic errors and improve the accuracy and consistency of clinical communication by developing novel AI algorithms that provide real-time assistance to radiologists, clinicians and patients. In addition to over 200 scholarly publications, Dr. Langlotz authored numerous peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, committee publications and editorials, as well as The Radiology Report: A Guide to Thoughtful Communication for Radiologists and Other Medical Professionals. He co-edited Cancer Informatics: Essential Technologies for Clinical Trials.

Dr. Langlotz and his trainees have been recognized for their contributions to radiology research with numerous scientific awards, including seven best paper awards and five research career development grants. He is a principal investigator for several projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), an open-source database containing medical images from over three hundred thousand COVID-19 patients to help doctors better understand, diagnose, monitor and treat COVID-19.

Dr. Langlotz founded and is a past president of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research. He received its career achievement award in 2017. Dr. Langlotz served as chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and as a board member of the Association of Academic Radiology (formerly the Association of University Radiologists) and the American Medical Informatics Association. He has served on the external advisory board of the National Cancer Institute’s Imaging Data Commons for the past two years.

Dr. Langlotz has founded three health care information technology companies, most recently Montage Healthcare Solutions, which was acquired by Nuance Communications in 2016.

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