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Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5030
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John D. Comer, M.D. Ph.D. is a Diagnostic Radiologist with a shared appointment at the University of Michigan in the Neuroradiology and Emergency Radiology divisions. Dr. Comer earned his medical and doctoral degrees from the Weill Cornell Medical College/Rockefeller University/Memorial Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program. He completed a Research Track Diagnostic Radiology residency at Emory University, followed by a Neuroradiology Diagnostic Radiology Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Comer previously completed a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and performed research in deep learning with medical imaging during his Research Track Diagnostic Radiology residency. Dr. Comer has clinical and educational interests in applications of machine learning to medical imaging.
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FellowshipUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, 2023
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ResidencyEmory University Hospital, Atlanta, 2022
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Preliminary Medicine InternshipNew York–Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, 2018
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MD - PhDWeill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering, New York, 2017
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Postbaccalaureate premedical studiesUniversity of Louisville, Louisville, 2007
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MSStanford University, Stanford, 2005
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BSUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, 2003
Development of medical image deep learning methods for the detection of image pathology.
Development of natural language processing methods to automate sample labeling for the production of arbitrarily large datasets for neural network training.
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Lavrova A, Seiberlich N, Kelsey L, Richardson J, Comer J, Masotti M, Itriago-Leon P, Wright K, Mishra S. Eur J Radiol, 2024 Mar 5; 175: 111406Journal ArticleComparison of image quality and diagnostic efficacy of routine clinical lumbar spine imaging at 0.55T and 1.5/3T.
DOI:10.1016/j.ejrad.2024.111406 PMID: 38490129 -
Comer JD, Capizzano AA. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am, 2024 May; 32 (2): 277 - 287.Journal ArticleUncommon and Miscellaneous Inflammatory Disorders of the Brain and Spine.
DOI:10.1016/j.mric.2024.01.006 PMID: 38555141 -
Comer JD, Lobo R, Srinivasan A. Advances in Clinical Radiology, 2023 Jun;Journal ArticleAdvances in Functional Imaging for Sinus Disease
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Comer JD, Alvarez S, Butler SJ, Kaltschmidt JA. Neural Dev, 2019 Sep 12; 14 (1): 9Journal ArticleCommissural axon guidance in the developing spinal cord: from Cajal to the present day.
DOI:10.1186/s13064-019-0133-1 PMID: 31514748 -
Zhang J, Weinrich JAP, Russ JB, Comer JD, Bommareddy PK, DiCasoli RJ, Wright CVE, Li Y, van Roessel PJ, Kaltschmidt JA. Cell Rep, 2017 Oct 17; 21 (3): 666 - 678.Journal ArticleA Role for Dystonia-Associated Genes in Spinal GABAergic Interneuron Circuitry.
DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.09.079 PMID: 29045835 -
Comer JD, Cui X, Eisen CS, Abbey G, Arleo EK. Clin Imaging, 2017 42: 109 - 112.Journal ArticleMyofibroblastoma of the male breast: a rare entity with radiologic-pathologic correlation.
DOI:10.1016/j.clinimag.2016.11.022 PMID: 27936420 -
Comer JD, Pan FC, Willet SG, Haldipur P, Millen KJ, Wright CVE, Kaltschmidt JA. Front Neural Circuits, 2015 9: 36Journal ArticleSensory and spinal inhibitory dorsal midline crossing is independent of Robo3.
DOI:10.3389/fncir.2015.00036 PMID: 26257608 -
Ashrafi S, Betley JN, Comer JD, Brenner-Morton S, Bar V, Shimoda Y, Watanabe K, Peles E, Jessell TM, Kaltschmidt JA. Neuron, 2014 Jan 8; 81 (1): 120 - 129.Journal ArticleNeuronal Ig/Caspr recognition promotes the formation of axoaxonic synapses in mouse spinal cord.
DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2013.10.060 PMID: 24411736
