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Home > About NIBIB > Overview Director's Biographical SketchRoderic 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. |
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