Distinguished Investigators Ceremony 2020
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The Academy's 2020 Virtual Distinguished Investigator Ceremony
This year thirty-nine researchers have been selected to receive the Academy’s 2020 Distinguished Investigator Award. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to the field of medical imaging.

Eric T. Ahrens, PhD
University of California San Diego

Jyrki Ahveninen, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

David A. Bluemke, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Giorgio Bonmassar, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Michelle S. Bradbury, Md, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Deborah Burstein, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

David Cormode, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

E. James Delikatny, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jiang Du, PhD
University of California San Diego

Daniel Bruce Ennis, PhD
Stanford University

Frederick H. Epstein, PhD
University of Virginia

Michael Evans, PhD
University of California San Francisco

Joel Garland Fletcher, MD
Mayo Clinic

Ajay Gupta, MD, MS
Weill Cornell Medicine

David Brian Hackney, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Tamara G. Hershey, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine

Christopher P. Hess, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco

Jacob M. Hooker, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Kayvan R. Keshari, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dong-Hyun Kim, PhD
Northwestern University

Gerald M. Kolodny, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Despina Kontos, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Ronilda Lacson, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Deborah Levine, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Yongjian Liu, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine

Caterina Mainero, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

David J. Marcinek, PhD
University of Washington

Zdravka Medarova, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Scott D. Metzler, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Vijay Sharma, PhD
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

Leslee J. Shaw, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

H. Tom Soh, PhD
Stanford University

Konstantin V. Sokolov, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson

Hemant D. Tagare, PhD
Yale University

Martin Torriani, MD, MMSc
Massachusetts General Hospital

Eric C. Wong, MD, PhD
University of California San Diego