Visiting Scholar Ronald M. Summers, MD, PhD

Stanford Radiology welcomes Ronald M. Summers, MD, PhD, who is on sabbatical leave from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Department of Radiology where he serves as chief of the clinical image processing service and directs the Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Laboratory.

Dr. Summers received his BA degree in physics and his MD and PhD degrees in medicine/anatomy & cell biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a medical internship at the Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; a radiology residency at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and an MRI fellowship at Duke University, Durham, NC.

In 1994, he joined the Diagnostic Radiology Department at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, where he is now a tenured senior investigator and staff radiologist. His clinical areas of specialty are thoracic and gastrointestinal radiology as well as body cross-sectional imaging, and his research interests include virtual colonoscopy, CAD, and the development of large radiologic image databases. Dr. Summers is a co-chair of the Computer-Aided Diagnosis Program and program committee member of the Biomedical Applications Section of the annual Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Medical Imaging Conference. His many awards and honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which was presented to him in 2000 by Dr. Neal Lane, former President Clinton's science advisor. In addition, Dr. Summers has co-authored over 190 journal publications, review articles, and conference proceedings, and he is a co-inventor on eight patents. In his spare time, Dr. Summers enjoys traveling and photography.

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