Michael Choma

Dr. Michael Choma is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Radiology & Biomedical Imaging department at Yale School of Medicine. He also serves as Vice President Clinical at LookDeep Health, a Bay-Area startup developing AI/computer vision technologies for inpatient telemedicine and patient monitoring. Dr. Choma holds a PhD (2004) and MD (2006) from Duke University, completed pediatric training at Boston Children’s Hospital, and pursued postdoctoral research at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

His research spans biomedical optics, medical imaging, and developmental biology, with a focus on optical coherence tomography (OCT) for studying pulmonary and cardiovascular physiology. He has developed OCT technologies to quantify cilia-driven fluid flow in respiratory systems, investigated embryo heart physiology, and designed novel light sources for speckle-free imaging. His work also bridges clinical medicine and engineering innovation, particularly in digital health and AI-driven diagnostics.

Dr. Choma’s publications from 2015-2016 highlight trends in medical imaging, biophotonics, and computational diagnostics, with subfields including optical coherence tomography, fluid dynamics, and point-of-care testing. His scientific awards include the Numenta Startup Prize (2015) and Theodore von Kármán Fellowship (2014).

At Yale, Dr. Choma previously led an NIH-funded biophotonics laboratory and contributed to clinical radiology. He also served as an attending physician in the Yale-New Haven Primary Care Clinic. His interdisciplinary approach integrates medical practice, engineering, and data science, with recent interests in AI bias in medicine, digital pathology, and healthcare innovation.