{"id":199539,"date":"2026-03-26T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/radiological-sciences-professor-is-first-ever-associate-dean-for-health-ai-strategy-and-innovation-at-ucla\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:55:12","slug":"radiological-sciences-professor-is-first-ever-associate-dean-for-health-ai-strategy-and-innovation-at-ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/radiological-sciences-professor-is-first-ever-associate-dean-for-health-ai-strategy-and-innovation-at-ucla\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiological sciences professor is first-ever associate dean for Health AI Strategy and Innovation at UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/news\/article\/radiological-sciences-professor-first-ever-associate-dean\">Radiological sciences professor is first-ever associate dean for Health AI Strategy and Innovation at UCLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/news\/article\/radiological-sciences-professor-first-ever-associate-dean\">https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/news\/article\/radiological-sciences-professor-first-ever-associate-dean<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 19:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.uclahealth.org\">www.uclahealth.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Dr. Katherine P. Andriole\u2019s Appointment:<\/strong> Katherine P. Andriole has been named the first associate dean for Health Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Innovation at UCLA&#8217;s David Geffen School of Medicine, and will also direct the UCLA Center for AI and SMART Health.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Focus on Radiology and AI:<\/strong> The field of radiology has been at the forefront of adopting artificial intelligence, with most initial AI tools focusing on enhancing specific imaging tasks like detecting urgent medical conditions or analyzing breast imaging.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Workflow Efficiencies:<\/strong> AI technologies streamline radiology workflows, including billing, patient scheduling, and automating aspects of imaging acquisition, as well as standardizing quantitative metrics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Patient-Focused Benefits:<\/strong> AI tools aim to improve patient care by translating complex radiology reports into patient-friendly language, providing comprehensible pre-procedure instructions, and translating information into different languages.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Applications of AI:<\/strong> Dr. Andriole envisions AI tools integrating data from various patient systems to provide better context for imaging interpretations, detecting patterns not easily visible to the human eye to aid diagnoses, and contributing to personalized treatment plans.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Role Evolution of Radiologists:<\/strong> The role of radiologists is evolving toward becoming knowledge consultants, while AI continues to provide efficiencies that are expected to translate into enhanced patient care.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Ongoing Development and Implementation:<\/strong> The implementation of AI tools in clinical settings involves rigorous evaluation of their effectiveness and benefits, with ongoing advances promising further comprehensive imaging data interpretation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Radiology\u2019s Leadership in AI:<\/strong> The creation of an associate dean role for AI underlines its central role in research, education, and clinical operations at UCLA, highlighting radiology\u2019s leadership in integrating AI into healthcare.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiological sciences professor is first-ever associate dean for Health AI Strategy and Innovation at UCLA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uclahealth.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/landscape_16x9_030000_1200x675\/public\/images\/c4\/katherine-andriole.png?f=04c55cef&itok=iHrO7mJy","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-199539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199541,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199539\/revisions\/199541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}