Bharti Khurana, MD

Bharti Khurana, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Program Director for Emergency Radiology Fellowship and Clinical Director for Emergency Musculoskeletal Radiology, BWH

Dr. Bharti Khurana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing emergency and musculoskeletal radiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also the Program Director for Emergency Radiology Fellowship and Clinical Director for Emergency Musculoskeletal Radiology at BWH.

Dr. Khurana is passionate about trauma imaging, particularly optimizing MRI protocols in an emergent setting, providing meaningful imaging interpretations by incorporating a checklist approach and developing machine learning algorithms for injury detection. She believes in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for radiologists to move beyond clinical diagnosis, collaborate with multidisciplinary care teams, improve overall health outcomes and be an agent of social change. Currently, she is working on establishing the role of radiologists in proactively identifying Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victims. Additionally, as an associate faculty at Ariadne labs, Dr. Khurana is designing a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) and an automated alert generation for IPV detection, for use by the wider community.