New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 10, 2008

John MacKenzie, MD, MS, became an acting assistant professor of pediatric radiology and chief of pediatric musculoskeletal imaging at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) in September of 2007. At LPCH, he is helping to expand the options for imaging and image-guided interventions for children, and he is excited to be back on the Farm. After completing his Bachelor of Science degree at Stanford with honors in computer science and the biological sciences, Dr. MacKenzie left Stanford for medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, which was initially a culture shock for him. However, Dr. MacKenzie enjoyed the East Coast enough to complete his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and two fellowships: a musculoskeletal and body MRI fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His research interests include molecular imaging applications for bone and joint disorders, and he is currently developing a research program in hyperpolarized carbon-13 imaging with members of Stanford Radiology (Drs. Dan Spielman, Shreyas Vasanawala, and Dirk Mayer) and General Electric (Ralph Hurd and Yi-Fen Yen). When he's not working, you may see him riding his green bike around campus reliving his undergraduate days as well as commuting to and from Caltrain. Dr. MacKenzie lives in San Francisco and enjoys hiking and carpentry; both his father and grandfather were carpenters. A native of Colorado, Dr. MacKenzie is currently teaching his seven-year-old daughter how to ice skate.

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