Khan Siddiqui

Dr. Khan Siddiqui is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Hyperfine, the world’s first FDA-cleared, truly portable Point of Care MRI. He brings his 25 years of experience as a trained clinician and serial healthcare technology entrepreneur to his work leading the strategic direction of the company. He is also the founder and former Chief Medical and Chief Technology Officer at higi, where he led the development of the company’s products and technologies, focusing on patient engagement and positively impacting health outcomes through behavior change principles.

Dr. Siddiqui holds multiple patents for technology in areas of deep learning, AI, image processing, data visualization, as well as securing patient information handling and health records. His recent 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. Dr. Siddiqui particularly focuses on how to secure and protect data while enabling development of deep learning models to accelerate practical applications of AI in healthcare.

Prior to founding higi in 2012, Dr. Siddiqui was a Physician Executive and Principal Program Manager 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 became the foundation technology in the Xbox Kinect. Dr. Siddiqui was also responsible for developing Microsoft’s cloud (Azure) 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 University of Maryland and also the founding chair of American College of Radiology’s Imaging Informatics and IT Commission. He is a graduate of the Aga Khan University Medical College in Pakistan, completed his training in Medicine at New York University, Radiology training at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, along with his fellowship in the Imaging Informatics at University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Siddiqui has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers and has given 100s of invited talks. Dr. Siddiqui is member of 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.

In his spare time, Dr. Siddiqui loves spending time with his family. He and his two sons can often be found exploring Chicago on bikes in between painting and SCUBA diving.