Armani Manov
Clinical Research Fellow · Neurological Surgery · University of Pittsburgh
I graduated from Pitt. My work sits at the intersection of spine outcomes, surgical innovation, and care delivery in complex patient populations. I have a soft spot for the parts of medicine that involve actually talking to patients and helping them make sense of their options.
I'm especially interested in how data science and emerging technologies can quietly improve clinical research infrastructure, medical education, and patient-centered care. Pittsburgh native.
What I Base My Studies On
Currently Fascinated With
How MRI actually works. Every hydrogen atom in your body has a proton that spins like a tiny magnet. An MRI machine puts you inside a massive magnetic field that lines all of them up, then blasts radio waves at them to knock them out of alignment. When they snap back into place, they give off faint radio signals. The wild part is that hydrogen in fat relaxes at a different rate than hydrogen in muscle or cerebrospinal fluid or tumor, so the scanner can tell them apart and build an image with insane detail. No radiation, no cutting you open. Just the physics of water in your body being turned into a picture through Fourier transforms. It completely changed how we diagnose things, plan surgeries, and understand the brain.
Contact
UPMC Presbyterian Hospital
200 Lothrop Street, Suite B-400
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
manova2@upmc.edu
412-647-2810