Following a brief career as a PADI Scuba Instructor, Dr. Gary Danton attended and graduated from the University of Miami with a B.S. in psychobiology in 1996 and matriculated to the University of Miami School of Medicine combined MD., PhD program where he worked with Dr. Dalton Dietrich and Dr. Brant Watson at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis focusing on embolic stroke models in rats. Dr. Danton characterized how platelet emboli altered the expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in the vascular endothelium using rat models. After graduation in 2004, he completed a Medicine Internship in 2005 and a Radiology Residency in 2009 at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He joined the Diagnostic Radiology faculty in 2009 as a pediatric radiologist where he began the pediatric cardiac CT imaging program along with cardiologist Richard Kardon DO. Dr. Danton became the first section head of imaging informatics for the radiology department and worked with IT on implementation of PACS, voice recognition, workflow tools and image processing software at Jackson Memorial Hospital and University of Miami. In 2010, Dr. Danton became medical director for radiology services at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Program Director of the Radiology Residency and joined the ER/Trauma Radiology division. He recently was promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology and He has remained in those roles to current day.
