Xiaohong Joe Zhou PhD , DABR , DABMP

Dr. Zhou is a tenured ProfessorofRadiology, Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He also serves as Director of Center for MR Research and Chief Medical Physicist of UI Health. As an NIH-funded investigator, Dr. Zhou holds 35 patents on numerous MRI technologies, and is a co-author of a popular MRI book – “Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences”. His recent research has focused on diffusion imaging and its applications to studying tissue microstructures in human diseases. Dr. Zhou is a board-certified medical physicist by the American Board of Radiology, the American Board of Medical Physics, and the American Board of Magnetic Resonance Safety. He is a Fellow of the Int’l Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and a recipient of Distinguished Investigator Award by the Academy forRadiologyand BiomedicalImagingResearch.