Khan M. Siddiqui, MD
C-Suite Executive, Radiologist, and Investor in Chicago, IL
Dr. Siddiqui is a serial entrepreneur, a radiologist, and currently the Chief Medical and Chief Strategy Officer of Hyperfine ($HYPR), which has created the world’s first FDA 510(k) cleared portable MRI scanner. In addition, Dr. Siddiqui is the founder and executive chairman of HOPPR, a data and deep learning as a service platform, enabling data liquidity to accelerate and scale AI application development. Prior to Hyperfine, Dr. Siddiqui founded higi – a consumer health technology company – that was acquired by Babylon Health ($BBLN) as part of a $4.2 Billion SPAC transaction recently. Higi stations are deployed in over 12,000 locations globally with over 70 million patients on the platform and has a virtual clinical care network in 50 states.
Dr. Siddiqui holds dozens of patents for technology in areas of deep learning, AI, image processing, data visualization, as well as securing patient information handling and health records. His current research includes large-scale studies on the impact of ubiquitous access to health in combination with artificial intelligence and persuasive technologies to improve healthcare outcomes. He particularly focuses on how to secure and protect data while enabling the development of deep learning models to accelerate practical applications of AI in healthcare.
Prior to founding HOPPR in 2019 and higi in 2012, Dr. Siddiqui was a Physician Executive at Microsoft where he was responsible for platform engineering and machine learning for the health solutions group. His Microsoft legacy includes stimulating computer vision and machine learning research that led to the development of the regression forest algorithms, which are now the foundation technology in the Xbox Kinect. He was also responsible for developing Microsoft’s cloud-based medical imaging products and infrastructure.
Prior to Microsoft, Dr. Siddiqui was Director of Center for Biomedical Imaging and Informatics at Johns Hopkins University, Program Director of Imaging Informatics and MRI Fellowship Programs at the University of Maryland, and also the founding chair of the American College of Radiology’s Imaging and Informatics Commission. Dr. Siddiqui has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, first as an academic, and continues to publish in the private sector. Dr. Siddiqui is a member of the board of directors as well as advisory boards of various startups around the world and sits on various national committees on health care and medical imaging.