Curtis P. Langlotz

Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD serves as Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics and Associate Chair for Information Systems in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University and as a Medical Informatics Director for Stanford Health Care. Dr. Langlotz has published over 100 scholarly medical articles and editorials, and is author of the book "The Radiology Report: A Guide to Thoughtful Communication for Radiologists and Other Medical Professionals". He has also co-edited "Cancer Informatics: Essential Technologies for Clinical Trials". Over the past decade, Dr. Langlotz has led many national and international efforts to improve the quality of radiology reports, including the RadLex terminology standard, the RadLex Playbook of radiology exam codes, and the report template library of the Radiological Society of North America. His research is focused on reducing diagnostic errors and improving the accuracy and consistency of radiology communication through real-time decision support systems and other information technologies. His biomedical informatics laboratory develops novel machine learning and natural language processing algorithms that provide intelligent assistance to radiologists, clinicians, patients, and other consumers of the radiology report. Dr. Langlotz is a founder and Past President of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research (RAHSR), a former Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), and a former board member of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR). He serves as a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association, an informatics advisor to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the College of SIIM Fellows. Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Dr. Langlotz received his undergraduate degree in Human Biology, masters in Computer Science, MD in Medicine, and PhD in Medical Information Science, all from Stanford University. He trained in radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and served on the faculty there for 20 years. He currently lives in Menlo Park, California, where he bikes to work, chases a little white ball on weekends, and writes.