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Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.
Director
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Tel: 301-496-8859
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Roderic I. Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., is the first Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Prior to his appointment, he was a Professor of Radiology Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also served as Director of the Emory Center for Magnetic Resonance (MR) Research at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Pettigrew is known for his pioneering research at Emory University involving four-dimensional imaging of the heart using MR. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Physics from Morehouse College where he was a Merrill Scholar. He received an M.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Rennselear Polytechnic Institute, and he received a Ph.D. in Applied Radiation Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as 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, served an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University, and completed his 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 MR equipment. In 1985, he joined Emory as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow focusing in non-invasive cardiac imaging.
Dr. Pettigrew's awards include membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the Bennie Award (Benjamin E. Mays) for Achievement, and he was named the Most Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Miami. In 1989, when the Radiological Society of North America met to celebrate its 75th (Diamond) Anniversary, Dr. Pettigrew was selected to give the keynote Eugene P. Pendergrass New Horizons Lecture. He has served as Chairman of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section for the Center for Scientific Review at NIH, and has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine and fellowships in the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Scientific Publications
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2008
Ohayon J, Finet G, Gharib AM, Herzka DA, Tracqui P, Heroux J, Rioufol G, Kotys MS, Elagha A, Pettigrew RI. Necrotic core thickness and positive arterial remodeling index: emergent biomechanical factors for evaluating the risk of plaque rupture. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008 Aug;295(2):H717-27.
Gharib AM, Ho VB, Rosing DR, Herzka DA, Stuber M, Arai AE, Pettigrew RI. Coronary artery anomalies and variants: technical feasibility of assessment with coronary MR angiography at 3 T. Radiology. 2008 Apr;247(1):220-7.
Gharib AM, Elagha A, Pettigrew RI. Cardiac magnetic resonance at high field: promises and problems. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol. 2008 Mar-Apr;37(2):49-56.
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2007
Pettigrew RI, Peterson KP, Heetderks W, Seto B. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering marks its first five years. Acad Radiol. 2007 Dec;14(12):1448-54.
Gharib AM, Herzka DA, Ustun AO, Desai MY, Locklin J, Pettigrew RI, Stuber M. Coronary MR angiography at 3T during diastole and systole. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 Oct;26(4):921-6.
Ohayon J, Dubreuil O, Tracqui P, Le Floc'h S, Rioufol G, Chalabreysse L, Thivolet F, Pettigrew RI, Finet G. Influence of residual stress/strain on the biomechanical stability of vulnerable coronary plaques: potential impact for evaluating the risk of plaque rupture. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2007 Sep;293(3):H1987-96.
Greil GF, Desai MY, Fenchel M, Miller S, Pettigrew RI, Sieverding L, Stuber M. Reproducibility of free-breathing cardiovascular magnetic resonance coronary angiography. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2007;9(1):49-56.
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2006
Pettigrew RI. Team science and the NIBIB. Science. 2006 Jun 30;312(5782):1873.
Alexander DF, Alving BM, Battey JF, Berg JM, Collins FS, Fauci AS, Gallin JI, Grady PA, Hodes RJ, Hrynkow SH, Insel TR, Jones JF, Katz SI, Landis SC, Li TK, Lindberg DA, Nabel EG, Niederhuber JE, Pettigrew RI, Rodgers GP, Ruffin J, Scarpa A, Schwartz DA, Sieving PA, Straus SE, Tabak LA, Volkow ND. Response to: "Rescuing the NIH before it is too late." J Clin Invest Apr 28, 2006.
Nezafat R, Stuber M, Ouwerkerk R, Gharib AM, Desai MY, Pettigrew RI. B1-insensitive T2 preparation for improved coronary magnetic resonance angiography at 3 T. Magn Reson Med 55(4):858-64, 2006.
Sharma P, Socolow J, Patel S, Pettigrew RI, Oshinski JN. Effect of Gd-DTPA-BMA on blood and myocardial T1 at 1.5T and 3T in humans. J Magn Reson Imaging 23(3):323-30, 2006.
2005
Seto DB, McLaughlin A, Li K, Menkens A, Sullivan D, Pettigrew R. Advancing the Boundaries of Molecular Imaging. Biol Psychiatry Sep 13, 2005.
Simor T, Gaszner B, Oshinski JN, Waldrop SM, Pettigrew RI, Horvath IG, Hild G, Elgavish GA. Gd(ABE-DTTA)-enhanced cardiac MRI for the diagnosis of ischemic events in the heart. J Magn Reson Imaging 21(5):536-45, 2005.
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2004
Pettigrew RI, Fee CA, Li KC. Changes in the world of biomedical research are moving the field of "personalized medicine" from concept to reality. J Nucl Med 45(9):1427, 2004.
Johnson KR, Patel SJ, Whigham A, Hakim A, Pettigrew RI, Oshinski JN. Three-dimensional, time-resolved motion of the coronary arteries. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 6(3):663-73, 2004.
Muthupillai R, Flamm SD, Wilson JM, Pettigrew RI, Dixon WT. Acute myocardial infarction: tissue characterization with T1rho-weighted MR imaging--initial experience. Radiology 232(2):606-10, 2004.
Brummer ME, Moratal-Perez D, Hong CY, Pettigrew RI, Millet-Roig J, Dixon WT. Noquist: reduced field-of-view imaging by direct Fourier inversion. Magn Reson Med 51(2):331-42, 2004.
2003
Fee CA, Pettigrew RI. National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering: poised for the future. Radiology 229(3):636-7, 2003.
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2002
Han HC, Oshinski JN, Ku DN, Pettigrew RI. A left ventricle model to predict post-revascularization ejection fraction based on cine magnetic resonance images. J Biomech Eng 124(1):52-5, 2002.
2001
Faber TL, Vansant JP, Pettigrew RI, Galt JR, Blais M, Chatzimavroudis G, Cooke CD, Folks RD, Waldrop SM, Gurtler-Krawczynska E, Wittry MD, Garcia EV. Evaluation of left ventricular endocardial volumes and ejection fractions computed from gated perfusion SPECT with magnetic resonance imaging: comparison of two methods. J Nucl Cardiol 8(6):645-51, 2001.
Oshinski JN, Han HC, Ku DN, Pettigrew RI. Quantitative prediction of improvement in cardiac function after revascularization with MR imaging and modeling: initial results. Radiology 221(2):515-22, 2001.
Chatzimavroudis GP, Oshinski JN, Franch RH, Walker PG, Yoganathan AP, Pettigrew RI. Evaluation of the precision of magnetic resonance phase velocity mapping for blood flow measurements. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 3(1):11-9, 2001.
Videlefsky N, Parks WJ, Oshinski J, Hopkins KL, Sullivan KM, Pettigrew RI, Fyfe D. Magnetic resonance phase-shift velocity mapping in pediatric patients with pulmonary venous obstruction. J Am Coll Cardiol 38(1):262-7, 2001.
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2000
Ensley AE, Ramuzat A, Healy TM, Chatzimavroudis GP, Lucas C, Sharma S, Pettigrew R, Yoganathan AP. Fluid mechanic assessment of the total cavopulmonary connection using magnetic resonance phase velocity mapping and digital particle image velocimetry. Ann Biomed Eng 28(10):1172-83, 2000.
Laham RJ, Chronos NA, Pike M, Leimbach ME, Udelson JE, Pearlman JD, Pettigrew RI, Whitehouse MJ, Yoshizawa C, Simons M. Intracoronary basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) in patients with severe ischemic heart disease: results of a phase I open-label dose escalation study. J Am Coll Cardiol 36(7):2132-9, 2000.
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1999
Faber TL, Cooke CD, Folks RD, Vansant JP, Nichols KJ, DePuey EG, Pettigrew RI, Garcia EV. Left ventricular function and perfusion from gated SPECT perfusion images: an integrated method. J Nucl Med 40(4):650-9, 1999.
Oshinski JN, Franch R, Shirazi SH, Pettigrew RI. Use of navigator-echo-gated MRI to diagnose a coronary shunt involving an anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. J Magn Reson Imaging 9(5):738-40, 1999.
Bom HS, Vansant JP, Pettigrew RI, Cooke CD, Votaw JR, Garcia EV. Determination of Myocardial Viability with ECG-Gated Fluorodeoxyglucose F-18 Positron Emission Tomography. Clin Positron Imaging. 2(4):183-190, 1999.
Pettigrew RI, Oshinski JN, Chatzimavroudis G, Dixon WT. MRI techniques for cardiovascular imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging 10(5):590-601, 1999.
Alazraki NP, Krawczynska EG, Kosinski AS, DePuey EG 3rd, Ziffer JA, Taylor AT Jr, Pettigrew RI, Vansant JP, Shaw LJ, Weintraub WS, King SB 3rd. Prognostic value of thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease after revascularization (the Emory Angioplasty versus Surgery Trial [EAST]). Am J Cardiol 84(12):1369-74, 1999.
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