Expert medical professional at SIIM Annual Meeting focused on innovative imaging solutions and AI in radiology.

Event Speaker

Chris Burt 

Principal Group PM Manager

Microsoft

Chris Burt is Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft, where he leads healthcare AI initiatives focused on responsible deployment, clinical workflow integration, and scalable innovation across enterprise health systems. His work bridges product strategy, applied artificial intelligence, and real-world implementation to help organizations translate emerging technologies into measurable clinical and operational value.

Sessions

How to Actually Use Foundation Models: From Classification to Agents Learning Lab

Presented by John Garrett, PhD, Richard J. Bruce, MD, Alan B. McMillan, PhD, Chris Burt , Jameson Merkow, PhD, Ivan Tarapov, MSc , Joshua Warner, MD, PhD in Cardiology, Pathology, Radiology Jun 10, 2026 | 10:00 AM.

Foundation Models—including Vision-Language Models and Large Language Models—are rapidly reshaping what is possible in medical imaging. Yet many imaging informaticists, researchers, and developers find a disconnect between the promise described in the literature and what can realistically be implemented in clinical and research environments. Questions around practical use, efficient adaptation, and system-level integration remain major…