With a medical degree and fellowship training in musculoskeletal imaging, Juan Espinosa works as a diagnostic radiologist at an academic medical center in Springfield, Missouri. His hospital practice involves reading skeletal and vertebral scans for patients receiving specialized spinal care. Espinosa also conducts departmental research evaluating acquisition protocols in magnetic resonance imaging, aiming to standardize how lumbar spine examinations are documented across regional clinical networks. He contributes regular pieces on bone and joint imaging to Biology Insights. In addition to his interpretation duties, he consults with outpatient orthopedic surgeons to review diagnostic findings, instructs resident physicians during daily reading room rotations, and studies scan markers associated with chronic degenerative disc changes.