4th Annual Sprawls Lecture
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
7:30 a.m.
Emory University Hospital Auditorium
(2nd Floor, near the E elevator)
Sprawls Lecturer:
Roderic I. Pettigrew, PhD, MD
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Topic
TBA
Roderic I. Pettigrew, PhD, MD
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Roderic I. Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., is the first Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the NIH. Prior to his appointment at the NIH, he was Professor of Radiology, Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University and Bioengineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Emory Center for MR Research, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Pettigrew is known for his pioneering work at Emory University involving four-dimensional imaging of the heart using magnetic resonance (MRI). Dr. Pettigrew graduated cum laude from Morehouse College with a B.S. in Physics, where he was a Merrill Scholar; has an M.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Rennselear Polytechnic Institute; and a Ph.D. in Applied Radiation Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Whitaker Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Scholar. Subsequently, he received an M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine in an accelerated two-year program, did an internship and residency in internal medicine at Emory University and completed a residency in nuclear medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Pettigrew then spent a year as a clinical research scientist with Picker International, the first manufacturer of MRI equipment. In 1985, he joined Emory as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow with an interest in non-invasive cardiac imaging.
Dr. Pettigrew's awards include membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the Bennie Award (Benjamin E. Mays) for Achievement, and being named the Most Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Miami. In 1989, when the Radiological Society of North America celebrated its 75th Diamond anniversary scientific meeting, it selected Dr. Pettigrew to give the keynote Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture. He has also served as chairman of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, NIH. He has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine and fellowship in the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Dr. Sprawls' greatest career contributions have been in medical imaging and medical physics education, not only at the university level in the U.S. but around the world. Dr. Sprawls is recognized as an international leader in the process of developing shared and open web-based resources to improve education in all countries. He is now working with institutions and organizations around the world in the process of re-engineering the educational process.
Dr. Sprawls became Professor of Emeritus of Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine, in 2005, at the conclusion of a 45-year tenure on the faculty that began in 1960 in the Department of Physics.
To read more about the career of Dr. Sprawls visit: http://www.sprawls.org/retirement/
2008 - Peter Lacovara, PhD ~ Distinguished Chair of Imaging Sciences, The Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas) "Radiologic Examination of Egyptian Mummies"
2007 - King C. Li, MD, FRCP(C), MBA ~ Distinguished Chair of Imaging Sciences, The Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas) "Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering in the Genomica Era: Opportunities and Challenges"
2006 - Perry Sprawls, PhD, PE, FACR, FAAPM, DABR, DABMP, CCE ~ Professor of Emeritus of Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine "Optimizing X-ray Imaging and the Digital Dilemma"