K. Thomas Pickard
K. Thomas "KT" Pickard | |
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 Pickard in 2017 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation(s) | Medical imaging, Health IT |
K. Thomas "KT" Pickard is an American executive entrepreneur working in the field of medical imaging and health IT.
Pickard worked on bioinformatics and machine learning applications at supercomputer companies Thinking Machines Corporation and MasPar prior to moving to medical imaging in 1996.[1]
Pickard worked at UltraVisual Medical Systems in the early 2000s, and after that joined PACSGEAR, which was acquired by Lexmark in 2013.[1][2]
From 2015 to 2017 he was CEO of WITS(MD) (which changed its name to ImageMoverMD shortly after he joined) and moved from San Francisco to Wisconsin.[3] In 2018, he returned to San Francisco and joined Philips. In 2021, he joined Amazon Web Services and moved to Seattle.[4]
He has a daughter with autism, and raised money via a crowdfunding campaign on Experiment.com to have her genome sequenced.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "K. Thomas Pickard: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Engel, Jeff (July 30, 2015). "WITS(MD) Raises $1.6M to Securely Share Medical Images on Smartphones". Xconomy.
- ^ Buchanan, Jeff (10 June 2016). "ImageMoverMD Helps Clinicians, Patients Transmit Photos Securely". Xconomy.
- ^ "K. Thomas Pickard". LinkedIn. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ Heger, Monica (August 4, 2015). "With Insurers Reluctant to Pay for Genomic Testing, Some Patients Turning to Crowdfunding". GenomeWeb.