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George So, MD, enjoys cooking and loves to create new dishes for fun.

INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS Dr. George So blends medical and technical expertise to best serve his patients. WRITTEN BY NANCY SOKOLER STEINER | PHOTGRAPHED BY VINCENT RIOS

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t home, Torrance Memorial Medical Center interventional radiologist George So, MD, enjoys cooking. “It’s a creative outlet,” he says. “I don’t use a cookbook—I create new dishes for fun.” Just as he mixes ingredients and methods to craft satisfying meals, Dr. So combines medical and technical expertise in providing patient care. His degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering inform his practice of interventional radiology and neuroradiology, where he harnesses new technologies to perform minimally invasive procedures. And as with his cooking, no two cases are alike.

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“The same disease manifests differently in different patients,” he says. “It requires making specific, individual plans rather than relying on a formula or recipe.” Dr. So graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in both electrical engineering and computer engineering. In graduate school, he became interested in medical equipment. He was challenged to design and build an MRI scanner to study the brain. No commercial machines existed then, so he had to study, acquire components and assemble a functioning machine. The experience piqued his interest in medical imaging. He enrolled in medical school knowing he would specialize in radiology.


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