Primary Job Title Chair of Bioengineering, Professor of Radiology, and Professor of Electrical Engineering Primary Organization Stanford University
Location Los Altos, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Norbert Pelc is Boston Scientific Applied Biomedical Engineering Professor, Chair of Bioengineering, Professor of Radiology, and Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. An expert in biomedical imaging, he received a doctorate in Medical Radiological Physics from Harvard in 1979. Dr. Pelc worked at GE Medical Systems
(1978-1990) where he was involved in research in all the major imaging modalities and was instrumental in the development of CT, MRI, and digital radiography. He joined Stanford in 1990 and has served on a number of review panels and was a member of the NIBIB National Advisory Council.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Association of Physicist in Medicine, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Heart Association. Dr. Pelc is an author of more than 175 peer-reviewed papers and more than 290 abstracts presented at scientific conferences, and he is the inventor of 86 issued US patents.
