Dr. Maqbool Patel Biography

Dr. Maqbool Patel obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the most prestigious institute of higher learning in India. Got his PhD in Computer Engineering from Drexel University USA. He was a faculty at University of Minnesota, Radiology Department working on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) research. He has to his credit several peer reviewed publications in international journals and book chapters in prestigious publications like Academic Press and CRC Publications and has several patents. After 3 years at the U of MN, Dr. Patel joined GE Medical System as Lead Designer where he worked for nine years holding several positions of increasing responsibilities like architect, manager and director of engineering. For last four years he was with Emageon Inc, a fast growing publically traded medical Imaging company in Birmingham. He joined Emageon as Director of Platform Engineering and then moved on to become the Vice-President of Technology Integration. He recently joined CircleSource as CIO.