Curiosity and rigor open new paths in radiology.
Katherine Van Schaik, MD, PhD, shares how studying health over time connects the past to patient care today. In her conversation with rising M4 MD/PhD student, Atlee Witt, Dr. Van Schaik gives insight to her unique career path and how your unique journey can start with curiosity. ✨
Filmed and edited by: Anthony Czelusniak
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Huge congratulations to @VUMCDiscoveries MD PhD student @AtleeWitt on the AMSER Henry Goldberg Award at #AAR2026! 🏆
Her work: CT imaging of Egyptian mummies to explore the ancient roots of the dental-cardiovascular disease link. So proud of her!
Ancient mummies modern CT scans = a better understanding of DISH and metabolic disease. 🦴
So excited to represent @VUMCDiscoveries and present this work at the @SSRbone meeting. Grateful for such a thoughtful, engaged community. The questions after the talk were🔥!
Tremendous congratulations to Lily Gao on her award-winning paper, co-advised by Dr. Landman! Our team, led by Lily, developed a robust scoring system for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). Manuscript forthcoming in SPIE Proceedings! @VUMCDiscoveries@VanderbiltU
Congratulations, Owen, for your award-winning poster presentation at SPIE Medical Imaging about AI-based methods to evaluate radiographs of bones from archaeological contexts! A privilege to work with you and co-mentor Dr. Landman @VanderbiltU@VUMCDiscoveries
Congratulations to first author Atlee Witt and to our co-authors Derek Smith and the Horus Team on our Journal of the American Dental Assoc paper examining cardiovascular and periodontal disease in Egyptian mummified remains (with 3 min video abstract): jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8…
Congratulations to Lily Gao and Kate Jordan, who presented our Health over Time team's work on diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) @RSNA this week! Our results are described further in the RSNA Daily Bulletin: lnkd.in/eFqZCy6u
Excited and grateful to share some thoughts about Galen and AI on The Rootcutter, the blog for the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology: societyancientmedicine.org/h…
Check out my colleague Professor James Zainaldin’s beautifully written and comprehensive overview of the Roman “arts and sciences,” just published this month! cambridge.org/core/books/art…@VanderbiltU
So excited to give today's noon conference @CincyKidsRad, talking about bone health in historical and modern populations! Thanks to Drs. Guillerman, @bdcoleymd, and @AndrewTroutMD for the invitation!
Excited about the WMSS triennial Congress in Cusco in August! Info here: agenda.pucp.edu.pe/evento/xi…. You can also email grupo.gibaf@pucp.edu.pe or worldmummystudiessociey@gmail.com for details.
So excited to announce the World Mummy Studies Society, the new, formalized professional organization that will organize and host our wonderful triennial Congresses. Foundational membership dues may be paid until 1/31/25. Contact worldmummystudiessociety@gmail.com for details!
Thank you, @mmaggeler for your fantastic article! theguardian.com/wellness/202… Galen would be thrilled to know someone is still listening (even if he might argue with our rejection of his humoral theories!).