Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD, is slated to take on the title in September, also acting as clinical service chief of radiology at OU Health, the school’s academic hospital system.
Photon flash therapy is an experimental treatment that delivers an ultrahigh dose rate of radiotherapy 100 times faster than currently available options.
UPDATED: He’s picking Nicole B. Saphier, MD, a board-certified breast specialist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Fox News contributor, to fill the key role.
Corresponding with the change, the Chicago-based imaging manufacturer is combing two of its radiology-related business lines into a new segment worth $14.6 billion.
Funding will help the New York-based company expand into additional clinical indications and capabilities while also supporting further development of Aidoc’s CARE Foundation Model.
A referring physician orders an MRI of the lumbar spine and hits send. That order lands at three, sometimes four, outpatient imaging centers simultaneously. The center that contacts the patient first books the appointment. The rest miss out on the revenue.
