Ask the Fish

Headed by Elliot K. Fishman, MD, the Advanced Medical Imaging Laboratory (AMIL) is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to research, education, and the advancement of patient care using medical imaging with a focus on spiral CT and 3D imaging.

Ask the Fish is a premier online forum to discuss computed tomography (CT) and related topics:

"One of the challenges we face in healthcare is there is so much information we cannot access. I see a patient today at Hopkins who had a film done in California. If I can't see that film . . . that makes no sense, it helps nobody, and it hurts the patient. These needed transformations are likely to come from someone who has not been a traditional medical player, someone [from outside the healthcare industry] who doesn't see how things always were—but looks at how things can be, and I think that's really where Harris can play a major role."

"Harris has that skill set, they have that DNA; now it's just moving it over into a different enterprise."

"My career was basically based on 3D imaging. Now, the way I got 3D imaging was—first an idea, then I went to see Pixar. And the second you walked in, you said, 'Ahh-ha! These guys understand the problem.' Now Pixar had no interest in doing medical imaging; that was not what they were going to be doing. But that drove everything we did. I think it's the same way with Harris. It's sort of that 'ahh-ha' moment. When you visit Harris and you see what they provide in different fields, whether it's in the government realm, whether it's in security, whether it's in military, you see what they can do and it's that 'ahh-ha' moment. This is what I need for our problem. We're looking for solutions. We don't care where the solutions come from, but people who've been able to prove, like Harris, that they can do things well, securely—provide that tremendous technology. That's what we're looking for."

Elliot Fishman, M.D.
Professor of Radiology and Oncology,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • Outstanding Educator 2001 & 2007—Aunt Minnie
  • Outstanding Researcher 2004—Aunt Minnie
  • Top Radiologist in the Nation 2007—Medical Imaging Magazine
  • Creator of CTisus.com—the largest CT website with over 50,000 accessing users
  • Past President of the Society of Body CT/MR
  • Recognized worldwide for his continuing medical education courses