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The Brighton Associates Medical Group, Los Angeles, California, United States
Professor Gerald Pohost, MDs career spans more than four decades, with continuing work in clinical and research cardiology. After cardiology fellowship and Instructor at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he was appointed as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. His research in Nuclear Cardiology and NMR was funded by NIH and additionally, NMR funded in part, by Johnson and Johnson. After 12 years at MGH with academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, he was recruited to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as Chief of Cardiology. During 18 years at UAB, he developed the Laboratory for NMR R&D equipped with a “whole body” Philips 3T MR imaging system and a 360 MHz research NMR spectroscopy system supported by NIH and DOE. Ultimately UAB was ranked #7 in Cardiology in the US (US News and World Reports). In 2001, he was recruited to the Keck School of Medicine at USC as chief of Cardiology and Professor of medicine and soon after developed a collaboration with Krishna Nayak, PhD, Viterbi School of Engineering at USC where he continued his work on new applications of CMR. In 1982, while at MGH, he founded the ISMRM, with the help of colleagues including Nobel Laureates, Paul Lauterbur, PhD and Peter Mansfield, PhD, as well as Joanne Ingwall PhD, and Tom Budinger, MD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Alex Margulis, MD, UCSF, and Briton Chance, PhD, U Penn. In 1994, Pohost founded the SCMR, with the help of internationally known Cardiologists and Radiologists including Dudley Pennell, MD, Nathaniel Reichek, MD and Charlie Higgins, MD. Pohost was the first President and first Editor in Chief of the Journal. His publications include 300 manuscripts in Peer Review Journals and 15 books.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM