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Saara Totterman, M.D., Ph.D., is responsible for both setting the strategic direction for the medical research that VirtualScopics undertakes as well as ensuring thorough medical oversight for all the clinical programs that the company conducts. Prior to founding VirtualScopics, she served as the director of the MR Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center having full responsibility for the operation of the center with P/L oversight for $35 million in annual revenues. Totterman is internationally recognized as an authority in musculoskeletal CT and MRI, having over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 120 presentations at international meetings. She has also contributed to the writing of 11 book chapters and is a reviewer for Radiology, the highest ranked radiological journal in the world, for which she has won several awards. Totterman's main research concentration has been MR imaging technology development and image segmentation, which have formed the foundation for VirtualScopics technology. She has extensive experience in multidisciplinary research, collaborating with engineering and physics scientists and is frequently sought out as an advisor to the pharmaceutical industry. She received her M.D. at the University of Oulu, Finland, her Ph.D. in medicine at the University of Bergen, Norway and her B.A. in medicine from University of Oulu. | 