Dr. Tom Anderson is a body radiologist and the Medical Director of Quality in the Baystate Medical Center Department of Radiology. He is an assistant professor of Radiology for the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School - Baystate and a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He worked as a research technician at Massachusetts General Hospital after graduating from Williams College and then attended medical school at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. After an internship in internal medicine at Roger Williams Medical Center, Tom moved back to Boston to train as a resident in diagnostic radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, serving as Chief Resident in his final year and staying on to complete a year-long fellowship in Body MRI.
Dr. Anderson has held leadership roles in teaching and education throughout medical school and residency and now has the privilege to work regularly with excellent trainees. In his free time, Tom enjoys leveraging web technologies for improving personal and professional efficiency. Many such projects are included on their own tab here, because they were too much work not to share. Tom is also an amateur woodworker and has taught over one hundred people how to solve the Rubik's Cube. He performed for 10 years as a baritone in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the official chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops.
Live webapp for coordinating 3 overlapping moonlighting pools at BIDMC. Requires sign in as site is in active use, for demo version, see link in Demo Section.
Central resource for current radiology guidelines and recommendations. Accepts clinical details and returns scoring or staging results and recommendations.
Live webapp for coordinating 3 overlapping moonlighting pools at BIDMC. Authenticate with user/user (for generic user view) or admin/admin (for advanced admin tools).
Addition to existing electronic protocoling system, which creates a table of protocols to chose from based on order that was placed. Suggests protocols based on text matching in provided clinical history. Alerts users to contrast allergies and poor renal function and provides standardized emails for contacting clinicians for routine issues such as premedication or changing the ordered study.
Anderson TJ, Berkowitz SJ. Online tool for overlapping resident moonlighting schedules. SIIM 2018, National Harbor, MD
Anderson TJ, Brook OR, Berkowitz SJ. Creating tools for decision support and efficient clinician contact within a web-based protocoling system. SIIM 2017, Pittsburgh, PA
Lu N, Anderson TJ, Mortele KJ, Siewert B, Raptopoulos VD, Brook OR, Disease-specific Abdominal CT Report Templates for Improved Patient Care. RSNA 2015, Abstract ID 15017920
Anderson TJ, Atalay MK, Grand DJ, Beland MD. Is Repeat Fine Needle Aspiration after a Non-Diagnostic Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Necessary? RSNA 2013, Abstract ID 13024895
Anderson TJ, Atalay MK, Grand DJ, Beland MD. Can Ultrasound Features of Thyroid Nodules Predict Outcomes after a Non-diagnostic Fine Needle Aspiration? RSNA 2013, Abstract ID 13025015