May 1, 2008
Johns Hopkins’ president to give Moss Lecture on May 8
Dr. William Brody, president of Johns Hopkins University, will give the Albert A. Moss Lecture in Imaging Sciences on at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in the UW Health Sciences Hogness Auditorium. His lecture is titled “Uncommon Sense and Innovation.”
Brody, former chair of the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins, will present material discussing reasoning and problem solving in the real world, with particular emphasis on innovation and scientific discovery.
Brody became the 13th president of Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 1, 1996. Prior to assuming the position, he was the provost of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota. From1987 to 1994, he was the Martin Donner Professor and director of the Department of Radiology, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, and radiologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
A native of Stockton, Calif., Brody received bachelor and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a medical degree. and doctoral degree, also in electrical engineering, from Stanford University. Following post-graduate training in cardiovascular surgery and radiology at Stanford, the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Francisco, Brody was professor of radiology and electrical engineering at Stanford University (1977-1986). He has been a co-founder of three medical device companies, and served as the president and chief executive officer of Resonex Inc. from 1984 to 1987. He has over 100 publications and one U.S. patent in the field of medical imaging and has made contributions in medical acoustics, computed tomography, digital radiography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Brody is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American College of Radiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Albert A. Moss Lecture Series honors Albert Moss who served as chairman of the UW Department of Radiology from 1984 to 2002. During Dr. Moss’ chairmanship, UW Radiology became nationally recognized for its outstanding clinical programs, its highly funded imaging research, and its superb radiology residency training.
The event is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow in the lobby of the Health Sciences building. The event will be videotaped for viewing on the Department of Radiology Web site at www.rad.washington.edu. For more information, contact Betsy Munk at 206-543-0871 or munk@u.washington.edu, or visit the department’s Web site.
