Renaissance Rad Feature: Dr. Supriya Gupta MD

Dr. Supriya Gupta MD is a Radiologist specializing in neuroradiology at AMITA Health St. Mary ’s Hospital - Kankakee, IL Tell us about your area of clinical expertise within your practice/organization: Dr. Gupta:   I am responsible for pretty much all radiology studies except vascular IR, with a focus on neuroradiology and breast imaging, two image-intensive subspecialties. Along with that I look at the IT and dose sub-committee at the local site, advising solutions which benefit us and integrate the best technology with the highest benefit to cost ratio. I am also responsible for supervising quality metrics in the radiology department, with emphasis on mammography.  Why did you become a radiologist?Dr. Gupta:   Radiology is the only field in this era of subspecialty which is still focused on the human from head to toe, including the normal anatomy, physiology and pathology. I feel so complete looking at the patient and being comfortable looking at any exam for the same reason. We are living in the era of subspecialization and radiology also has a lot of subspecialities, neuroradiology being mine. Despite that, many rads can comfortably look at basic imaging of any body part. My second reason was obviously technology. I mean no other branch of medicine has this much interaction with computers and technology on a daily basis; with a background in programming, I loved that, just spending the whole day in front of a computer...yes I loved it !! This just fueled my passio...
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