PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DERMATOLOGIC ONCOLOGY, HOAG
WHY: Helping Hoag implement a new, futuristic way to diagnose skin cancers. Hospital system has installed a state-of-the-art 3D imaging system machine at its expanding campus in Irvine. The system counts 92 cameras that flash simultaneously to capture a patient’s entire skin surface in less than one second. Hoag says this machine, the Vectra WB360, is the only one of its kind on the West Coast.
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NOTABLE: Vectra’s WB360 cost was $400,000, which was provided by a gift from Hoag Innovators, a group of philanthropists, entrepreneurs and community leaders who want to catalyze innovation at Hoag.
QUOTABLE: “This is cutting-edge technology,” he says of Vectra WB360. “We can detect skin cancer really early. This is the future of skin cancer detection.”
