Chief Technology Officer Resume Example

Experienced healthcare data professional with over 5 years of experience working on medical imaging informatics and clinical data-driven software solutions. Skilled in healthcare data governance and management, enterprise healthcare informatics application (PACS-Epic) integration, large-scale healthcare data process, transformation, analytics, and visualization, AI and machine learning techniques in radiology. Strong enterprise software development and clinical data problem solving professional with an in-depth understanding of consistent clinical operation and skills of leveraging data resources to deliver actionable insights and innovative solutions for value-based patient care. Accomplished in leading the design, development, deployment, and sustainment of an effective data governance infrastructure for regulatory patient safety reporting, operational performance monitoring, and business intelligence in a large academic medical center.

• Aiping Ding, Francesco Ria, Ehsan Samei. “Chapter 11: CT Practice Monitoring” in “Computed Tomography
  Approaches, Applications, and Operations”. Springer, 2020.
• Yong HamNa, Juying Zhang, Aiping Ding, X. George Xu. “Chapter 14: Mesh-Based and Anatomically Adjustable Adult Phantoms and a Case Study in Virtual Calibration of Lung Counter for Female Workers” in “Handbook of Anatomical Models for Radiation Dosimetry”. TAYLOR \& FRANCIS, 2009.

• Aiping Ding, Josh Wilson, Justin Solomon, Yakun Zhang, Steve Mann, Jeffrey Nelson, Jered Wells, Ehsan Samei. METIS: Next-Generation Performance Informatics Platform for Value-Based Clinical Imaging Practice. 105th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, November 25-30, 2018.
• Aiping Ding, Yakun Zhang, Justin Solomon, Josh Wilson, Ehsan Samei. Retrospective Assessment of Radiation Dose in Abdominopelvic CT: Inter- and Intra-Scanner Variability. 105th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, November 25-30, 2018.
• Aiping Ding, Yakun Zhang, Josh Wilson, Justin Solomon, Ehsan Samei.Strategy and Results for Characterization of Dose Outliers in CT Dose Monitoring: Analysis Across 84683 Patient Studies. 105th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, November 25-30, 2018.
• Aiping Ding, Francesco Ria, Yakun Zhang, Justin Solomon, Ehsan Samei.A Data-Centric Strategy for Developing CT Dose and Noise Reference Levels from Clinical Patient Populations. 105th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, November 25-30, 2018.
• Aiping Ding, Taylor Smith, Ehsan Abadi, Francesco Ria, Joshua Wilson, Ehsan Samei. Robustness and Accuracy of An Automated Solution for Measuring Image Noise, Spatial Resolution, Contrast, and Dose in Clinical CT Images: Efforts Towards Patient-Specific Quantifications of CT Image Quality and Radiation Dose. 59th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Denver, CO, July 30-Aug 3, 2017.
• Aiping Ding, Bin Han, Lei Wang, Lei Xing, A Generalized Strategy for 3D Dose Verification of IMRT/VMAT Using EPID-measured Transit Images, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) 2015 – Workshop on Imaging and Computer Assistance in Radiation Therapy, Munich, Germany, October 9, 2015.
• Aiping Ding, Bin Han, Karl Bush, Lei Wang, Lei Xing. A Novel EPID-based Strategy for Three-Dimensional (3D) Dose Verification of VMAT/SBRT. 12th International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Congress, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, June 7-11, 2015.
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F. Caracappa, Bob. Liu, Danny Long, Wesley Bolch, X. George. An Update of the Development and Clinical Testing of VirtualDose Software Used for Reporting CT Doses. American Nuclear Society (ANS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, June 16-20, 2013.
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F. Caracappa, Danny Long, Wesley Bolch, Bob. Liu, X. George Xu. Clinical Evaluation of VirtualDose — a Software for Tracking and Reporting CTDI, DLP, Organ and Effective Dose for Adult and Pediatric Patient. 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Indianapolis, IN, August 4-8, 2013.
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F. Caracappa, Bob. Liu, Danny Long, Wesley Bolch, X. George Xu. Testing of CT Dose Software VirutalDoseTM for Tracking and Reporting Patient Doses. 98TH Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, November 25-30, 2012.
• Aiping Ding, X. George Xu. An Update of VirutalDose Software Used for Assessing Patient Organ Doses from CT Examinations, 21ST Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS), NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, October 22-25, 2012 (Invited Talk).
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F. Caracappa, Bob Liu, X. George Xu. Design and Testing of the VirtualDose Software under the Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform for Tracking and Reporting CT Doses. 54th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Charlotte, NC, July 29-Aug 2, 2012.
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F. Caracappa, Daniel Long, Wesley Bolch, X. George Xu. A Comprehensive CT Organ Dose Database for Weight-Specific Adult and Pediatric Patients.54th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Charlotte, NC, July 29-Aug 2, 2012.
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu. CT Dose Reporting with the VirtualDose Software: Database and Software Testing for Clinical Users. 57th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS), Sacramento, CA, July 22-26, 2012.
• Aiping Ding, Matthew Mille, Peter Caracappa, X. George Xu. Impact of body size of obese patients on PET/CT dose estimates: Monte Carlo calculations using a set of BMI-adjustable phantoms. 53th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Vancouver, BC, July 31-Aug 4, 2011.
• Aiping Ding, Nick Schulte, Peter Caracappa, X. George Xu. Further Development of VirtualDose Software for CT Dose Assessment: Realistic Phantoms and Smartphone User Interfaces. 53th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Vancouver, BC, July 31-Aug 4, 2011.
• Aiping Ding, Tianyu Liu, Wei Ji, and X. George Xu. Evaluation of Speedup of Monte Carlo Calculations of Simple Reactor Physics Problems Coded for the GPU/CUDA Environment. ANS Mathematics & Computation Topical Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 8-12, 2011.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Peter Caracappa, X. George Xu. Development and Testing of a CT Dose Software “VirtualDose” Using Anatomically Realistic Patient Phantoms: Preliminary Results for the Phase I of the project. 52rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Philadelphia, PA, July 18-22, 2010.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, M Mille M, X. George Xu, Yi Wang , Alexei V Trofimov. Methods to Account for Imaging Doses from Diagnostic MDCT or Kilovoltage CBCT in Prostate Treatment Planning: Monte Carlo Studies Using Scanner Models and Patient-Specific Anatomy. 52rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Philadelphia, PA, July 18-22, 2010.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Matthew Mille, X. George Xu, Bob Liu. VirtualDose: A CT dose reporting software based on anatomically realistic phantoms. 57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), Salt Lake City, UT, June 5-9, 2010.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Haikuan Liu, Peter Caracappa, X George Xu. The Need and Feasibility of a Modern Software for Reporting Patient Doses from CT Scans. 51st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, CA, July 26-30, 2009.
• Aiping Ding, Bin Han, X George Xu. Development of a Software for Integrating the Medical Accelerator Model with Patient Phantoms into Monte Carlo Based Dosimetry Platform. 51st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Anaheim, CA, July 26-30, 2009.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Haikuan Liu, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu. The Design of A New PC Software for Estimating Patient Doses from CT Scans. 54th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS), Minneapolis, MN, July 12-16, 2009.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Haikuan Liu, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu. A Software Package for Reporting Multidector CT Doses. International Conference on Advances in Mathematics, Computational Methods, and Reactor Physics, May 3-7, 2009.

• Tyler Lacy, Aiping Ding, Vivian Minkemeyer, Donald Frush, Ehsan Samei,Patient-based Performance Assessment for Pediatric Abdominal CT: An Automated Monitoring System Based on Lesion Detectability and Radiation Dose, Academic Radiology, 2020
• Aiping Ding, Taylor Smith, Ehsan Abadi, Francesso Ria, Josh Wilson, Ehsan Samei, Robustness and Accuracy of An Automated Solution for Measuring Image Noise, Spatial Resolution, Contrast, and Dose in Clinical CT Images: Efforts Towards Patient-Specific Quantifications of CT Image Quality and Radiation Dose: SU-K-201-10. Medical Physics, 44(6), pp.3023-3024,2017
• Bin Han, Aiping Ding, Minghui Lu, Lei Xing, Pixel response-based EPID dosimetry for patient specific QA,J Appl Clin Med Phys. 18(1):9-17,2017.
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F Caracappa, Daniel J Long, Wesley E Bolch, Bob Liu, X. George Xu. VirtualDose: A software for reporting organ doses from CT for a library of adult and pediatric patients. Phys. Med. Biol. 60 (14), 5601-5625, 2015.
• Aiping Ding, Bin Han, Lei Xing. Development of an Accurate EPID-Based Output Measurement and Dosimetric Verification Tool for Electron Beam Therapy. Med. Phys. 42(7):4190-4198, 2015.
• Xin Chen, Karl Bush, Aiping Ding, Lei Xing. Independent calculation of monitor units for VMAT and SPORT. Med. Phys., 42(2): 918-924, 2015.
• Aiping Ding, Bin Han, Lei Xing. An EPID-based Dosimetric Verification Tool for Electron Beam Therapy. Int .J .Radiat .Oncol .Biol. Phys. 90 (1): S921, 2014.
• Aiping Ding, Bin Han, Lei Xing. Development of an EPID-Based Output Measurement and Dosimetric Verification Tool for Electron Beam Therapy. Med. Phys. 41, 331, 2014.
• Haikuan Liu, Yiming Gao, Aiping Ding, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu. The profound effects of patient arm positioning on organ doses from CT calculated using Monte Carlo simulations and deformable phantoms. Radiat. Prot. Dosimetry. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncu284, 2014.
• Bin Han, Aiping Ding, Lei Xing, Lei Wang, Development of a High-Resolution EPID Based Dosimetry Strategy for Radiosurgery QA. Med. Phys. 41, 468, 2014.
• Xin Chen, Karl Bush, Aiping Ding, Lei Xing. Independent Verification of Monitor Units for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). Med. Phys. 41, 567, 2014.
• Peter F Caracappa, Yiming Gao, Aiping Ding, X. George Xu. Evaluation of Computed Tomography Dose Using a Family of Virtual Patients. Health Phys. 107(1): S83, 2014.
• Aiping Ding, Matthew Mille, Tianyu Liu, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu. Extension of RPI-adult male and female computational phantoms to obese patients and a Monte Carlo study of the effect on CT imaging dose. Phys. Med. Biol. 57, 2441-2459, 2012 (FEATURED ARTICLE).
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F Caracappa, Bob Liu, X. George Xu. Design and Testing of the VirtualDose Software under the Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform for Tracking and Reporting CT Doses. Med. Phys. 39(6):3876, 2012.
• Aiping Ding, Yiming Gao, Peter F Caracappa, Daniel J Long, Wesley E Bolch, X. George Xu. A Comprehensive CT Organ Dose Database for Weight-Specific Adult and Pediatric Patients. Med. Phys. 39(6):3940, 2012.
• Yiming Gao, Aiping Ding, Peter F Caracappa, X. George Xu. Position Sensitivity of Calculated Dose-Length-Product-To-Effective-Dose Conversion Factors in Computed Tomography Examination. Med. Phys. 39(6):3607, 2012.
• Tianyu Liu, Aiping Ding, X. George Xu. Accelerated Monte Carlo Methods for Photon Dosimetry Using a Dual-GPU System and CUDA. Med. Phys. 39(6):3818, 2012.
• Tianyu Liu, Aiping Ding, X. George Xu. GPU-Based Monte Carlo Methods for Accelerating Radiographic and CT Imaging Dose Calculations: Feasibility and Scalability. Med. Phys. 39(6):3876, 2012.
• Lin Su, Tianyu Liu, Aiping Ding, X. George Xu. A GPU/CUDA Based Monte Carlo Code for Proton Transport: Preliminary Results of Proton Depth Dose in Water. Med. Phys. 39(6):3945, 2012.
• Tianyu Liu, Aiping Ding, Wei Ji, and X. George Xu. PRELIMINARY TESTS OF A 3D MONTE CARLO NEUTRON TRANSPORT CODE FOR REACTOR ANALYSIS USING NVIDIA C2050 GPU CARD AND CUDA ENVIRONMENT. PHYSOR 2012 – Advances in Reactor Physics – Linking Research, Industry, and Education Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, April 15-20, 2012, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL, 2012.
• Aiping Ding, Tianyu Liu, Wei Ji, and X George Xu. Evaluation of speedup of Monte Carlo calculations of simple reactor physics problems code for the GPU/CUDA environment. International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2011) ,Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, May 8-12, 2011, on CD-ROM, Latin American Section (LAS) / American Nuclear Society (ANS),ISBN 978-85-63688-00-2.
• Aiping Ding, Matthew Mille, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu, “Impact of body size of obese patients on PET/CT dose estimates: Monte Carlo calculations using a set of BMI-adjustable phantoms,” Med. Phys. 38, 3843, 2011.
• Aiping Ding, Nick Schulte, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu, “Further Development of VirtualDose Software for CT Dose Assessment: Realistic Phantoms and Smartphone User Interfaces.” Med. Phys. 38, 3877, 2011.
• Bryan Bednarz, GTY Chen, Bin Han, Aiping Ding, X. George Xu. Comparison of Particle Tracking Features in GEANT4 and MCNPX Codes for Applications in Mapping of Proton Range Uncertainty. Nuclear Technology.175 (1):2-5, 2011.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, X George Xu, Alexei V Trofimov. Monte Carlo calculation of imaging doses from diagnostic multi-detector CT and Kilovoltage cone beam CT as part of prostate cancer treatment plans. Med. Phys. 37(12): 6199-6204, 2010.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu, Development and Testing of a CT Dose Software “VirtualDose” Using Anatomically Realistic Patient Phantoms: Preliminary Results for the Phase I of the project. Med. Phys. 37(6): 3463, 2010.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, M Mille M, X George Xu, Yi Wang, Alexei V Trofimov, Methods to Account for Imaging Doses from Diagnostic MDCT or Kilovoltage CBCT in Prostate Treatment Planning: Monte Carlo Studies Using Scanner Models and Patient-Specific Anatomy. Med. Phys. 37(6): 3462, 2010.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Matthew Mille, X. George Xu, Bob Liu. “VirtualDose: A CT dose reporting software based on anatomically realistic phantoms”. J. Nuc. Med. 51(S2): 144, 2010.
• Aiping Ding, Di Zhang, X George Xu. A TRAINING SOFTWARE USING VIRTUAL-REALITY TECHNOLOGY AND PRE-CALCULATED EFFECTIVE DOSE DATA. Health Phys. 96(5): 594-601, 2009.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Haikuan Liu, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu, The Design of A New PC Software for Estimating Patient Doses from CT Scans. Health Phys., 97(1), S56, 2009.
• Aiping Ding, Bin Han, X. George Xu, Development of a Software for Integrating the Medical Accelerator Model with Patient Phantoms into Monte Carlo Based Dosimetry Platform, Med. Phys. 36(6):2781-2782, June 2009.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, Haikuan Liu, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu. The Need and Feasibility of a Modern Software for Reporting Patient Doses from CT Scans. Med. Phys. 36(6):2727, June 2009.
• Aiping Ding, Jianwei Gu, etc. A Software Package for Reporting Multi-detector CT (MDCT) Doses. 2009 International Conference on Advances in Mathematics, Computational Methods. Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009, full paper published by American Nuclear Society: Item ID: 700346 / ISBN: 978-0-89448-069-0 CD-ROM.
• Juying Zhang, Yong Hum Na, Aiping Ding, X George Xu, "Deformable and Posture-changing Computational Phantoms and Dosimetry Data for Standard External-Beam Irradiations", "2009 International Conference on Advances in Mathematics, Computational Methods". Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009, full paper published by American Nuclear Society: Item ID: 700346 / ISBN: 978-0-89448-069-0 CD-ROM.