Modern medical professional at SIIM Annual Meeting, showcasing advancements in imaging and radiology technology, with a focus on innovation, collaboration, and education in medical image informatics.

Event Speaker

Ivan Tarapov, MSc 

Principal Group Manager

Microsoft

Ivan Tarapov is Principal Group Manager at Microsoft, where he leads healthcare technology initiatives focused on AI innovation, enterprise data solutions, and cloud-enabled clinical transformation. His work centers on building scalable platforms that help healthcare organizations improve workflow efficiency, interoperability, and intelligent decision support.

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…