Meet Dr. Ami Rubinowitz

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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.