Most people, at some point in their lives, have had an x-ray. It’s a common practice. In fact, today at Yale-New Haven Hospital alone, every year more than 70 radiologists perform more than one million x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI imaging studies to diagnose and monitor the treatment of various health conditions for more than 500,000 people. Typically, once an image is taken, it is digitized and can be immediately shared electronically with the patient’s general practitioner and other medical specialists, enabling them to make a quick diagnosis and provide care in a timely manner.
In many countries, however, operating an effective medical imaging program is much more challenging. Many imaging programs worldwide still use hard-copy film, which is expensive, frequently in short supply, and not as easily and quickly shared as digitized images.
To help remedy this, Dr. Frank Minja, assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at Yale School of Medicine, traveled to Tanzania, Africa in 2014 to implement a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), a medical imaging technology that provides economical storage and convenient access to medical images including x-rays, ultrasounds, CTs, and MRIs.
Minja is no stranger to Tanzania. He was born and raised in the former Tanzanian capitol of Dar es Salaam, and traveled to the United States for college and medical school at Harvard University. Minja came to Yale School of Medicine in 2004 for a fellowship in diagnostic radiology residency and neuroradiology; he joined the Yale faculty in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging in 2009.
Even before completing his Neuroradiology Fellowship, Minja had already begun collaborating with radiology colleagues at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, who were establishing the first Diagnostic Radiology residency training program in Tanzania.
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