Education

Undergraduate: BS, BioMedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI),
Worcester, MA, 1973

Graduate: MS, BioMedical Engineering, WPI, Worcester, MA 1976

Doctorate: PhD, BioMedical Engineering, WPI, Worcester, MA, 1979

Certification: American Board of Radiology in Medical Nuclear Physics, 1995

Service/Awards

Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society)

Teacher of the Year, 2004, Graduate Program in Medical Physics, Radiology Dept., University of Chicago

“Making the Difference”, 2005 Staff Appreciation Award, Radiology Dept., University of Chicago

Vice Chair -University and University Hospitals Combined Human Use of Radioisotopes and Radioactive Drug Research Advisory Committee (RADRAC)

Chair - Clinical Regulatory Compliance Subcommittee of the RADRAC

Secretary - Computer & Instrumentation Council, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2005-07

Reviewer for Medical Physics and IEEE Medical Imaging Conference

Research Interests

Scatter correction in SPECT and PET, quantifying therapy response with PET, and using PET to reflect hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase activity