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Michael Choma, MD, PhD

Associate Professor Adjunct
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Associate Professor Adjunct

Biography

Dr. Choma is a physician-engineer with expertise in digital health, AI/computer vision, medical imaging, medical physiology, and biomedical optics. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale, where he teaches Data and Clinical Decision-Making (ENAS 523). His writings on the ongoing evolution of medicine in the era of data and computation can be found on Substack. He occasionally posts on LinkedIn and Threads.

Dr. Choma also was the VP Clinical at LookDeep Health, a Bay-Area startup that develops AI/computer vision technologies for inpatient telemedicine and patient monitoring. He leads their clinical science efforts, with an emphasis on leveraging several academic-industrial partnerships that focus on high-value clinical use-cases (e.g. preventing avoidable harm).

Previously, Dr. Choma was full-time faculty at Yale as an Associate Professor. He ran an NIH-funded biophotonics laboratory that developed optical coherence tomography (OCT) technologies to study pulmonary and cardiovascular physiology. In addition, he was an attending physician in the Yale-New Haven Primary Care Clinic. His prior experience also includes working on the brain-computer interface project at Meta (previously Facebook).

Dr. Choma received his MD and PhD degrees from Duke University. He trained in general pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, and his postdoc was at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School.

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Education & Training

MD
Duke University (2006)
PhD
Duke University (2004)
Intern
Children's Hospital Boston
Resident
Children's Hospital Boston
Resident
Yale-New Haven Hospital

Research

Overview


  • Optical imaging of microfluidic-scale biological fluid flow
  • Quantitative imaging of embryo heart physiology and pathophysiology
  • Diagnostic imaging of pathologic cilia-driven fluid flow
  • Developing novel light sources for biological imaging

Medical Research Interests

Cilia; Developmental Biology; Heart Defects, Congenital; Lasers; Optics and Photonics; Respiratory System; Tomography, Optical Coherence

Public Health Interests

Cardiovascular Diseases; Respiratory Disease/Infections; Child/Adolescent Health

Research at a Glance

Publications Timeline

A big-picture view of Michael Choma's research output by year.

Publications

2015

2014

2013

2012

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Numenta Startup Prize

  • honor

    Theodore von Kármán Fellowship, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

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Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

TAC N117, PO BOX 208043

New Haven, CT 06520-8043

United States