About
Daniel Sodickson, MD, PhD is Function Health's Chief Medical Scientist and one of the imaging leaders behind the company's preventive-screening push. Harvard-MIT trained in medicine and medical physics, he invented SMASH, the parallel MRI technique that helped speed clinical MRI. At Function, his work connects Ezra's MRI/CT add-ons with the broader lab platform, helping place imaging beside biomarkers as another way to find risk earlier.
What to Know
Signature approach
Sodickson brings preventive imaging science into Function's testing model: faster MRI capture, AI-assisted reconstruction, and scan protocols that can make whole-body screening more practical. His role is especially relevant to Ezra's imaging add-ons, where radiology rigor has to stay clear even as scans become easier for members to access.
What sets them apart
- Foundational MRI work. His SMASH paper has 3,300+ citations, and his broader record spans 374 publications and 31,000+ citations.
- AI imaging credibility. He helped lead fastMRI, an open dataset used to benchmark AI reconstruction in academic radiology.
- Field leadership. He is a former president of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, an ISMRM Gold Medal recipient, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Protocols & technologies
Credentials
Education
BS, Physics
Yale University (1988)
BA, Humanities
Yale University (1988)
PhD, Medical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004)
MD
Harvard Medical School (2006)
Years in practice
20
Affiliations
Scientific Advisor
Thought Leadership
Books
- The Future of Seeing: How Imaging Is Changing Our World · Columbia University Press, 2025
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