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National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Roster

Dates in parenthesis next to a member's name indicated end of term.

CHAIRPERSON

Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D.
Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland  20892


MEMBERS

BAYNHAM, Tamara C., Ph.D.        (08/27)
Founder and Principal Consultant  
Ingenuity Medical Device Research, LLC
Antioch, Tennessee  37013

CHERRY, Simon R., Ph.D.        (08/24)
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA  95616

DESAI, TEJAL A., Ph.D.        (08/25)
Sorensen Family Dean
School of Engineering
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island  02912

LAM, Wilbur A., M.D., Ph.D.    (08/28)
Professor and W. Pail Bowers Research Chair
Department of Pediatrics and the  
Wallace H. Coulter Department of  
Biomedical Engineering  
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at  
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta  
Associate Dean of Innovation   
Emory University School of Medicine   
Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship   
Emory University   
Atlanta, Georgia  30322

LEE, Raphael, M.D.    (08/25)
Paul and Alene Distinguished Service 
Professor Emeritus   
Pritzker School of Medicine   
The University of Chicago   
Chairman, Renocyte BioMolecular  
Technologies, Inc. 
Chicago, Illinois  60637

MCCOLLOUGH, Cynthia, H., Ph.D.    (08/26)
Brooks-Hollern Professor of Medical Physics and Bioengineering 
Director, CT Clinical Innovation Center and X-Ray Imaging Core
Department of Radiology 
Mayo Clinic 
Rochester, Minnesota  55905

NIGHTINGALE,  R., Ph.D.    (08/24)
Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering    
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina  27708-0281

PORTER Tyrone M., Ph.D.    (08/27)
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering    
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas  78712

SCHMIDT,  Christine E., Ph.D.    (08/27)
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Professor and     
Department Chair 
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida  32611

SODICKSON, Daniel K., M.D., Ph.D.        (08/26)
Professor and Chief Innovation Officer
Department of Radiology
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York  10016 

WONG, Joyce Y., Ph.D.    (08/26)
Professor 
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Division of Materials Science and Engineering
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts  02215


EX OFFICIO MEMBERS 

HO, Vincent, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor of Radiology
Chair, Department of Radiology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda,  Maryland  20814

PETRICK, Nicholas, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Department of Imaging, 
Diagnostics, and Software Reliability
Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories 
Center for Devices and Radiological Health 
U.S. Food and Drug Administration 
Silver Spring,  Maryland  20993

PLANT, Anne L., Ph.D.
Chief, Biosystems and Biomaterials Division
Material Measurement Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology    
Gaithersburg, Maryland  20899-3460

RASTEGAR, Sohi, Ph.D.         
Senior Advisor 
Head, Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) 
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Engineering
Alexandria, Virginia  22314


EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

TAYLOR, Anna, Ph.D.
Director for Extramural Science Programs 
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering  
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland  20892