Saving Lives and Preventing Injuries Through Early Diagnosis
We harness the power of data analytics to create automated solutions for injury detection on medical images, clinical decision support for interpersonal violence detection, prediction of geriatric frailty and accidental falls, and evidence-based clinical guidelines for optimal imaging use.
Founder, Director and Principal Investigator, Trauma Imaging Research and Innovation Center (TIRIC)
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Bharti Khurana is the founding Director of the Trauma Imaging Research and Innovation Center (TIRIC), an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and an emergency radiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As an NIH-funded physician-scientist, she focuses on improving emergency imaging interpretation and developing machine learning tools to address critical healthcare and social challenges.
Dr. Khurana is a Fellow of both the American College of Radiology and the American Society of Emergency Radiology, and was also a 2023-24 scholar in the National Academy of Medicine’s Diagnostic Excellence Program. Her honors include the AAPI’s Most Distinguished Physician Award, the American College of Radiology Innovation Award, and three RSNA Distinguished Honored Educator Awards.
She has mentored over 100 trainees and junior faculty, including master’s and PhD students, and authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. She directs Harvard’s Intensive Review of Emergency Radiology CME course, serves as research faculty in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Additionally, she is the Emergency Radiology Section Editor for UpToDate and Editor of the Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book.
She earned her medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, completed her residency and fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.