Michael Lu

Faculty Member

Michael T. Lu, MD, MPH, is Director of Artificial Intelligence and Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center (CIRC), Associate Chair of Imaging Science for the MGH Department of Radiology, and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Lu’s research focuses on A) machine learning to predict health outcomes from imaging and B) clinical trials using CT to improve health. Recent work has used convolutional neural networks to predict longevity, cancer, and cardiovascular risk from routine chest radiograph images. He is Co-PI of the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) of the REPRIEVE trial, a NHLBI/NIH-sponsored multicenter randomized controlled trial of statins to reduce coronary plaque and prevent cardiovascular events in persons with HIV.

Dr. Lu earned his undergraduate, MD, and MPH degrees from Harvard University. His training consisted of a transitional internship in Surgery and Medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, fellowship in Thoracic and Cardiac Imaging at MGH, and a NIH T32 fellowship in Cardiac Imaging at MGH.

email: mlu@mgh.harvard.edu

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