Keith Thulborn

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About Keith Thulborn

Biography (149 words) Keith Thulborn, MD, PhD, is Professor of Radiology, Physiology and Biophysics in the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at University of Illinois at Chicago. His PhD in Biochemistry (1979) from University of Melbourne, Australia, was followed by 2 years at Oxford University, England. He completed an MD degree in 1984 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, a pediatric internship at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, and then radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He left Harvard University as Associate Professor in 1993, establishing the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center by building the first 3 Tesla MRI scanner for human neuro-imaging. He left as full Professor for University of Illinois at Chicago in to build the first 9.4 Tesla MRI scanner for human metabolic imaging. His national and international collaborations are sheparding metabolic imaging into clinical practice.