Julie Bauml, MD

Formerly a MS in Applied Clinical Informatics student (Fall 2022-Spring 2024) and fellow of the DBMI Clinical Informatics Program. Current Medical Director for AI at HOPPR, attending radiologist at Imagen.

Originally from Chicago, Dr. Julie Bauml has worked as a radiologist in private practice as well as in academics. She graduated medical school from UI Chicago in 2010 and did her radiology residency there as well, and completed an MRI fellowship at UW Madison. She has worked as an attending physician at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, an assistant professor in radiology at UI Chicago Hospital, and private practice in the Chicago suburbs.

Dr. Bauml started her 2‐year clinical informatics fellowship in July 2022 and completed it in July of 2024 and as part of it, completed a masters in the MS‐ ACI program as well. Her interests are in the world of imaging informatics including AI/ML solutions (both interpretive and non‐interpretive) and leveraging extended reality for diagnostic imaging.

Since matriculating from Vanderbilt, Dr. Bauml has stayed on as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer for DBMI.  She has been able to engage with her AI interests at her role of Medical Director for AI at HOPPR, an AI startup working on medical imaging foundational model development.  Dr. Bauml also consults for multiple other companies in the medical imaging technology space, including Luxsonic (working on VR headsets for portable radiology reading capabilities).  She stays clinically active by reading patient exams remotely for Imagen, which is also an AI company that uses its clinical data to develop AI algorithms.