Meet Dr. Ami Rubinowitz
May 20, 2021Information
Dr. Ami Rubinowitz explains her role as a radiologist and why she got started in the field.
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- 00:00Hi, I'm Amy Rabinowitz and I am associate
- 00:05professor of radiology and biomedical
- 00:08imaging at Yale School of Medicine,
- 00:11and I am also a member of the Thoracic
- 00:14Imaging section at Yale, New Haven Hospital.
- 00:17A couple of reasons why I
- 00:18ended up choosing this field.
- 00:19One reason was.
- 00:21Everything that I rotated in medical school.
- 00:23I actually really enjoyed.
- 00:25So my problem was I couldn't decide what I
- 00:28wanted to go into because I liked everything.
- 00:32When I was introduced to radiology
- 00:35by a wonderful radiologist again,
- 00:38I didn't know very much about the field and.
- 00:41I saw that basically radiology
- 00:44encompases all of medicine.
- 00:45You have to know about every part
- 00:47of the body to be a radiologist.
- 00:50That's what's involved in our
- 00:52training and what I also found very
- 00:55interesting and satisfying was not
- 00:57only are we helping patients were
- 01:00helping the clinicians give their
- 01:02patients the best care that we are,
- 01:04the ones finding what's wrong
- 01:07inside the patient's body an it's
- 01:10really an honor and a privilege,
- 01:13not just to help patients,
- 01:14but.
- 01:15To actually be able to look inside
- 01:18their bodies and find what's wrong.
- 01:20Being at an academic Medical Center,
- 01:23I have been part of many research projects.
- 01:28My main areas of interest and all
- 01:31of it pertains to thoracic imaging.
- 01:33But my main areas of interest in where I've
- 01:39helped out with a lot of clinical trials.
- 01:43Basically,
- 01:43research from the very beginning before
- 01:47medicines became mainstay of treatment
- 01:51pertained to interstitial lung disease.
- 01:54Pulmonary fibrosis,
- 01:56as well as lung cancer,
- 01:59and it's actually very satisfying
- 02:01to see when I look back over the
- 02:04many years that I've been here,
- 02:06collaborating with the brilliant
- 02:08clinicians that I have the
- 02:11privilege of working with that.
- 02:13The clinical trials that we were
- 02:14involved with not just involved with,
- 02:16but the clinicians that I work with
- 02:18are the principle investigators,
- 02:20so they're the ones running the trials.
- 02:23But I was the radiologist interpreting
- 02:25the studies that way back when
- 02:28before any of these medications
- 02:31were approved to see the results
- 02:33of the trials to see the ones that
- 02:35ended up having positive results.
- 02:37And now our mainstay of treatment for.
- 02:42For patients,
- 02:43so that's very satisfying to be
- 02:46able to be part of that and to
- 02:48see developments of medicine,
- 02:51you know,
- 02:52everybody's efforts come together
- 02:54and really benefit patients.