Armani Manov
Clinical Research Fellow
Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
I grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from Pitt. I do spine outcomes research: how surgery goes for patients with complicated cases, and how their care is delivered. The part of medicine I like most is talking with patients and helping them make sense of their options.
I'm also interested in how data science and newer technology can improve the way clinical research is run, medicine is taught, and patients are cared for.
What I base my studies on
Barry MJ, Edgman-Levitan S. Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care. N Engl J Med. 2012;366:780-781.
Currently fascinated with
How MRI actually works. I keep coming back to the fact that the whole thing runs on water. Every hydrogen atom in your body has a proton that acts like a tiny magnet. The scanner's magnetic field lines those protons up, then a pulse of radio waves knocks them out of line. As they settle back they give off a faint radio signal of their own. Reading an MRI works entirely on the fact that hydrogen in different tissues settles back at different rates. The scanner never sees anatomy directly. It picks up radio signals and uses a Fourier transform to work out where each one came from. Nobody gets cut open and there's no radiation.
Contact
UPMC Presbyterian Hospital
200 Lothrop Street, Suite B-400
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
manova2@upmc.edu
412-647-2810