WILLIAM R. BRODY, named the 13th president of Johns Hopkins University in 1996, was on the faculty at the time this professorship was created. From 1987 to 1994, he was the Martin Donner Professor and director of the Department of Radiology, professor of electrical and computer engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and radiologist-in-chief.
Before joining the faculty at Hopkins, Dr. Brody was professor of radiology and electrical engineering at Stanford University and founded a medical imaging company, Resonex. He also served from 1994 to 1996 as provost of the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. As president at Hopkins, he led the effort to integrate the University and Hospital/Health System to become Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Brody is now president of the the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
Dr. Brody holds a patent in the field of medical imaging and has made contributions in medical acoustics, computed tomography, digital radiology, and magnetic resonance imaging. He has written or contributed to more than 100 publications. He serves on the governing committee of the Whitaker Foundation, the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, and the selection committee of the Goldseker Foundation. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American College of Radiology, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
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