Provides Opinion & Testimony In:
Medical Doctor, Radiology, Medicine, Pediatrics, Cardiovascular Imaging, Computed Tomography Research and Development, Radiological Science, Cardiac CT, Cardiac MRI, Heart CAT-scan, Heart MRI, Aorta CT, Coarctation, Coronary CT, Calcium Score, Aorta MRI, CT angiography angiogram, MR angiography angiogram, Lung CT, Lung imaging, Lung x-ray, Lung nodule, Lung cancer CT, Lung embolism, Blood clot, Pulmonary embolism, Deep venous thrombosis, Pediatric Imaging, Pediatric heart Imaging, Radiologist, Pediatric Heart Disease,
- Tenured Professor of Radiology, Medicine, and Pediatrics
- Director, Division of Cardiovascular Imaging
- Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
- Director of Computed Tomography Research and Development
- MUSC Department of Radiology and Radiological Science
Education
- 1989-1996 Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, MD, Medicine
- 1992-1993 Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN, Visiting Medical Student
- 1995 Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, Final Year Internal Medicine Rotations
- 1996 Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Final Year Radiology Rotations
Residency
1997-2001 Institute of Clinical Radiology, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University,Munich, Germany
Faculty Appointments
- 2001 – 2004 Staff Radiologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
- 2004 – 2008 Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina,Charleston, SC
- 2008 – 2011 Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina
- Since 2011 Professor of Radiology, Medicine, and Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina
CERTIFICATIONS
- American Board of Radiology (ABR) – Diagnostic Radiology
- Austrian Board of Radiology – valid in all member countries of the European Union
- South Carolina Medical License
- American College of Radiology (ACR) Certification of Advanced Proficiency in Cardiac Computed Tomography
- Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CBCCT)
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support certifications current
BOARD / COMMITTEE POSITIONS
Current:
- 4th World Congress of Thoracic Imaging – Technical Exhibits Committee (2015-2017)
- ACR Certificate of Advanced Proficiency Examination Committee for CCTA (Committee Chair since 2011)
- International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT) – Board for the Annual MDCT Symposium and its Derivative Activities (since 2013)
- North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) – President (2016/2017)
- NASCI – Executive Council of the Board of Directors (since 2012)
- Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) – Education Committee (since 2015)
- Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT/MR) – Corporate Relations Committee (since 2012)
- Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR) – Executive Committee
- STR Corporate Relations Committee (Committee Chair since 2009)
- STR Task Force for Cardiac Imaging Education
Past:
- ABR Committee on Focused Practice Recognition in Maintenance of Certification (MOC) for Cardiac CT (2011-2015)
- American College of Cardiology (ACC) CT-SAP Committee (2008)
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria Committee for Cardiac Imaging (2005-2011)
- ACR Cardiac CT Guidelines Committee (2006-2011)
- ACR Committee on Cardiac Imaging (2006-2011)
- ACR International Education and Meetings Committee (2011-2014)
- American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Cardiovascular Radiology & Intervention – Leadership Committee (2009-2013)
- AHA Council on Cardiovascular Radiology & Intervention – Communications & Membership Committee (Committee Chair, 2009-2013)
- American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) – Scientific Program Committee (Cardiopulmonary Section 2005-2011)
- CBCCT Section Chair “Non Cardiac Structures” (2007 / 2008)
- CBCCT Section Chair “Reconstruction/Post Processing” (2008 / 2009)
- NASCI – President-Elect (2015/2016)
- NASCI Program Committee (2010-2012)
- NASCI Research Committee (Committee Chair, 2010-2012)
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) – Scientific Program Committee, Cardiac Subcommittee (2008-2015)
- RSNA Program Committee, Cardiac Case of the Day Program (Chair, 2011 / 2012)
- SCBT/MR Communications Committee (Committee Chair, 2010-2012)
- SCCT – Radiology Committee (2010-2015)
- STR – Research & Education Fund Committee (2004 – 2006)
- STR – Development and Corporate Relations Committee (2006 – 2008)
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Current:
- Academic Radiology, Deputy Editor, Cardiovascular Imaging (since 2011)
- American Journal of Roentgenology, Assistant Editor, Cardiothoracic Imaging (since 2011)
- Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (since 2012)
- Current Radiology Reports (since 2012)
- European Radiology, Cardiac Imaging Section Editor (2015-2017)
- Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA – since 2011)
- Journal of Thoracic Imaging, Deputy Editor (since 2016)
- US Radiology (since 2010)
Past:
- European Radiology, Section Cardiac Imaging (2001-2004 and 2009-2014)
- Journal of Thoracic Imaging (2005-2008)
- Journal of Thoracic Imaging, Associate Editor (2009-2015)
- Radiology, Associate Editor, Cardiac Imaging (2005-2010)
- Radiology, Consultant to the Editor (2011-2012)
Membership in Professional/Scientific Societies
National:
- American College of Radiology (ACR)
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
- American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS)
- American Heart Association (AHA) (Fellow)
- Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance – (SCBT/MR) (Fellow)
- Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR)
- North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) (Fellow)
- Association of University Radiologists (AUR)
- Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) (Fellow)
- South Carolina Medical Association
International:
- European Society of Radiology (ESR)
- European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI)
- European Society of Cardiac Radiology (ESCR)
- Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASCI)
- Hungarian Society of Radiology (Honorary Member)
- Société Canadienne-Française de Radiologie (Honorary Member)
- Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft (DRG)
- Bayerische Landesärztekammer
Scientific Reviewer for
- Academic Radiology (Journal)
- Acta Radiologica (Journal)
- American Heart Journal (Journal)
- American Journal of Roentgenology – AJR (Journal)
- Archives of Internal Medicine (Journal)
- Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (Journal)
- Chest (Journal)
- Circulation (Journal)
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging (Journal)
- Echocardiography (Journal)
- European Heart Journal (Journal)
- European Journal of Clinical Investigation (Journal)
- European Journal of Radiology (Journal)
- European Radiology (Journal)
- Expert Reviews in Cardiovascular Therapy (Journal)
- Fortschritte Roentgenstrahlen – RoeFo (Journal)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (Journal)
- International Journal of the Kuwait University Health Sciences Center (Journal)
- Investigative Radiology (Journal)
- Journal of the American Heart Association (Open Access Journal)
- Journal of the American Medical Association – JAMA (Journal)
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology – JACC (Journal)
- JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging (Journal)
- Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (Journal)
- Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (Journal)
- Journal of the Saudi Heart Association (Journal)
- Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis – JTH (Journal)
- Journal of Thoracic Imaging – JTI (Journal)
- Nature Reviews of Cardiology (Journal)
- Neuroradiology (Journal)
- New England Journal of Medicine (Journal)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Biomedicine (Journal)
- Obesity (Journal)
- PLoS ONE (Open Access Journal)
- Radiologe (Journal)
- Radiology (Journal)
- Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal (Journal)
- American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (Scientific Conference)
- American Roentgen Ray Society (Scientific Conference)
- EuroRad (Internet Database)
- IEEE Visualization (Scientific Conference)
- NASCI (Scientific Conference)
- Radiological Society of North America (Scientific Conference)
External consultant / reviewer for academic POSITIONS / promotions
- Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Cornell University School of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
- Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
- Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
- Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN
- New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
- Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- University of Pittsburgh Faculty of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
- University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
AWARDS AND HONORS
- 1992 – 1996 Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
- 1993 – 1994 Scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- 1995 – 1996 Scholar of the Krueger-Foundation
- 2000 Best Scientific Paper, Annual Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging
- 2001 Felix Fleischner Memorial Award, Fleischner Society
- 2002 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Special Distinction
- 2003 Best Scientific Chest Paper, European Congress of Radiology
- 2003 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction
- 2004 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Special Distinction
- 2005 Elected Fellow of the Society of Computed Body Tomography & Magnetic Resonance
- 2006 Named among “The Best of the Best”, Top 10 Cardiovascular Imagers, Medical Imaging Magazine
- 2006 Dr. Jean A. Vezina Award in Innovation and Excellence (Prix d’Innovation et d’Excellence de la Fondation Dr. Jean A. Vezina), Société Canadienne-Française de Radiologie
- 2006 Honorary Membership, Société Canadienne-Française de Radiologie
- 2006 Semifinal Candidate “Most Influential Radiology Researcher”. Aunt Minnie
- 2007 Named among “The Best of the Best”, Top 10 Cardiovascular Imagers, Medical Imaging Magazine
- 2007 European Journal of Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing
- 2007 Inclusion in “Best Doctors in America®” 2007-2008
- 2008 Distinguished Reviewer, American Journal of Radiology 2007-2008
- 2008 Ranked 2nd among the “Most Influential in Radiology” by RT Image Magazine
- 2008 Semifinal Candidate “Most Effective Radiology Educator”, Aunt Minnie
- 2008 Elected Fellow of the American Heart Association
- 2008 Named Business Partner of the Year by Medrad Inc., Indianola, PA
- 2009 Distinguished Reviewer, American Journal of Roentgenology 2008-2009
- 2009 Teacher of the Month – February, MUSC College of Medicine
- 2009 MUSC designation as Siemens “Center of Excellence”
- 2009 Applause Award, MUSC Department of Radiology and Radiological Science
- 2009 Inclusion in “Best Doctors in America®” 2009-2010
- 2009 Semifinal Candidate “Most Influential Radiology Researcher”, Aunt Minnie
- 2009 Teacher of the Month – September, MUSC College of Medicine
- 2009 Honor Tree Planted in the Galilee by the Israel Radiological Association
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
- 2010 Finalist “Most Influential Radiology Researcher”, Aunt Minnie
- 2010 Teacher of the Month – September, MUSC College of Medicine
- 2010 Distinguished Reviewer, American Journal of Roentgenology 2009-2010
- 2011 Inclusion in “Best Doctors in America®” 2011-2012
- 2012 Semifinal Candidate “Most Influential Radiology Researcher”, Aunt Minnie
- 2012 Honorary Membership, Hungarian Society of Radiology
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging
- 2012 Honorary Professorship, Nanjing University, China
- 2013 Inclusion in “Best Doctors in America®” 2013-2014
- 2013 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Academic Radiology
- 2013 Named “Most Influential Radiology Researcher”, Aunt Minnie
- 2014 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction
- 2014 European Radiology – Most Cited Paper Award 2011
- 2015 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Special Distinction
- 2015 Inclusion in “Best Doctors in America®” 2015-2016
- 2016 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction
- 2016 Awarded Tenure, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
- 2016 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Academic Radiology
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the American College of Radiology
- 2017 Radiology Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Special Distinction
NAMED LECTURES
- 2001 Felix Fleischner Memorial Lecture, Fleischner Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada
- 2004 Henry M. Selby Lecture, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
- 2013 M. Pinson Neal, Jr., M.D. Memorial Lecture, Richmond Radiological Society, Richmond, VA
- 2013 Atis K. Freimanis Visiting Professorship, Michigan State University Radiology, Lansing, MI
- 2013 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Lecture, Annual Meeting of the German Roentgen Society, Hamburg, Germany
- 2016 Sandler Lecture, Vanderbilt University Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology, Nashville, TN
OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Current:
- Director, Division of Cardiovascular Imaging
- Director of CT Research and Development
- Member, Research Oversight Committee
- 2016-17 Diagnostic Radiology Resident Selection Committee
Past:
- Cardiovascular Imaging Director, University Designated Center for Biomedical Imaging 2013-2016
- Member, MUSC Strategic Plan President’s Committee on Entrepreneurialism 2010-2015
- Team Captain – Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, 2016 AHA Lowcountry Heart Walk
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
Undergraduate Medical Education:
- Monthly one hour lecture to 3rd year medical students
- Supervise medical student summer research clerkship (2 per summer)
Graduate Medical Education:
- Monthly one hour lecture to radiology residents
- Monthly one hour lecture to cardiology fellows
- Organizer of the monthly departmental journal club
Graduate Studies Education:
- Faculty member, College of Graduate Studies, Medical University of South Carolina
- Co-director, graduate course in cardiovascular imaging, College of Graduate Studies,
- Medical University of South Carolina
Continuing Medical Education:
- “The Charleston Hands on Course: 64-Slice and Dual Source Cardiac CT”
- “The Charleston Course at the Sanctuary” 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- MUSC winter meetings 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
MAJOR CLINICAL / RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cardio-thoracic imaging, especially the use of CT and MRI for imaging coronary heart disease and pulmonary thrombo-embolism.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
- INVITED LECTURES: Numerous (>400) invited lectures nationally and internationally
- ABSTRACTS: Author or coauthor of numerous (>500) abstracts presented at scientific conferences
