Susan Sotardi, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Active Medical Staff, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Active Medical Staff, Chester County Hospital
Active Medical Staff, Pennsylvania Hospital
Attending Pediatric Neuroradiologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), Children's Hospital Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty, D3b Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Director, Informatics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
Richard Markowitz Endowed Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
Medical Director of Enterprise Imaging, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Radiology
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Radiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-7000
Email:
sotardis@chop.edu
sotardis@chop.edu
Education:
BS (Molecular and Cellular Biology, Summa Cum Laude)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2002.
MD, MS (Combined Degree Program: Medical Doctorate & MS Clinical Research Methods)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, 2011.
MSEng (Data Science, with concentration in Machine Learning)
Department of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
Permanent linkBS (Molecular and Cellular Biology, Summa Cum Laude)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2002.
MD, MS (Combined Degree Program: Medical Doctorate & MS Clinical Research Methods)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, 2011.
MSEng (Data Science, with concentration in Machine Learning)
Department of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
Selected Publications
Schabdach JM, Williams RMS, Logan J, Padmanabhan V, D'Aiello Iii R, Mclaughlin J, Gonzalez A, Krause EM, Tasian GE, Sotardi S, Alexander-Bloch AF.: From Scanner to Science: Reusing Clinically Acquired Medical Images for Research. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc 2025: 471-480, Jun 2025.Bao R, Song Y, Bates SV, Weiss RJ, Foster AN, Jaimes C, Sotardi S, Zhang Y, Hirschtick RL, Grant PE, Ou Y.: BOston Neonatal Brain Injury Data for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (BONBID-HIE): I. MRI and Lesion Labeling. Sci Data 12: 53, Jan 2025.
Alkhulaifat D, Vidal L, Larsen E, Serai SD, Sinti-Ycochea M, Mecca P, Orfe L, Sotardi S.: MRI safety-developing the right culture. Pediatr Radiol 2025.
Clatot J, Thompson CH, Sotardi S, Jiang J, Trivisano M, Balestrini S, Ward DI, Ginn N, Guaragni B, Malerba L, Vakrinou A, Sherer M, Helbig I, Somarowthu A, Sisodiya SM, Ben-Shalom R, Guerrini R, Specchio N, George AL Jr, Goldberg EM.: Rare dysfunctional SCN2A variants are associated with malformation of cortical development. Epilepsia 2025.
Antoniades M, Srinivasan D, Wen J, Erus G, Abdulkadir A, Mamourian E, Melhem R, Hwang G, Cui Y, Govindarajan ST, Chen AA, Zhou Z, Yang Z, Chen J, Pomponio R, Sotardi S, An Y, Bilgel M, LaMontagne P, Singh A, Benzinger T, Beason-Held L, Marcus DS, Yaffe K, Launer L, Morris JC, Tosun D, Ferrucci L, Bryan RN, Resnick SM, Habes M, Wolk D, Fan Y, Nasrallah IM, Shou H, Davatzikos C.: Relationship between MRI brain-age heterogeneity, cognition, genetics and Alzheimer's disease neuropathology. EBioMedicine 109(105399), Nov 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105399; Online ahead of print as of December 2024.
Maleki F, Moy L, Forghani R, Ghosh T, Ovens K, Langer S, Rouzrokh P, Khosravi B, Ganjizadeh A, Warren D, Daneshjou R, Moassefi M, Avval AH, Sotardi S, Tenenholtz N, Kitamura F, Kline T.: RIDGE: Reproducibility, Integrity, Dependability, Generalizability, and Efficiency Assessment of Medical Image Segmentation Models. J Imaging Inform Med Nov 2024.
Flanders TM, Punchak MA, Oliver ER, Land SD, Flohr SJ, Reynolds TA, Schmidt KM, Ertz DD, Moldenhauer JS, Adzick NS, Heuer GG.: The clinical significance of lack of hindbrain herniation in fetal myelomeningocele/myeloschisis patients. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics October 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.3171/2024.6.PEDS24170; Online ahead of print as of December 2024.
Mandal AS, Dorfschmidt L, Schabdach JM, Gardner M, Yerys BE, Bethlehem RAI, Sotardi S, Katherine Henry M, Wood JN, Chaiyachati BH, Alexander-Bloch A, Seidlitz J.: Normative trajectories of extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid during childhood and adolescence defined in a clinically-acquired MRI dataset. medRxiv Sep 2024.
Alkhulaifat, D., Rafful, P., Khalkhali, V., Welsh, M., States, L., Sotardi, S.: Automatic Generation of Curie Score in MIBG Reports Using Natural Language Processing. Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course, Miami, FL April 2024 Notes: Oral presentation.
Rafful, P., Khalkhali, V., Alkhulaifat, D., Welsh, M., Wieczkowski, S., Sotardi, S.: Pitfalls and Biases in Artificial Intelligence for Pediatric Radiology Models. Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course, Miami, FL April 2024 Notes: Poster presentation.