Prof. Richard Wahl,
Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor and Head of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Director of the university’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and Professor of Radiation Oncology, USA
Prof Wahl is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine. He was trained at University of California at San Diego School of Medicine and Washington University. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan where he was a professor. He moved to Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and he served as the first Henry N. Wagner Jr. Professor of Nuclear Medicine and chief of nuclear medicine. He joined the faculty of Washington University in 2014.
Prof Wahl’s research played an important role in the development of radioimmunotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has been a pioneer in the use of PET scans to diagnose and assess treatment of a broad array of human cancers and other diseases. Prof Wahl is also a world -renowned leader in molecular imaging and therapy. Over the past 35 years, his contributions have touched nearly every aspect of the field and spans from the bench to the bedside.
Prof Wahl is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) as well as a member of the American Association of Physicians (AAP). He has received honors from multiple organizations. He holds 18 patents and has published more than 500 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts. He is the primary author of several textbooks, including Principles and Practice of PET and PET/CT.
His awards include a U.S. Department of Energy Achievement Award; the de Hevesy, Tetalman, Berson and Yalow and two Alavi-Mandel awards from SNMMI; and the Academy of Molecular Imaging’s Distinguished Scientist Award. He also was named the “Most Influential Radiology Researcher” in 2005 by AuntMinnie.com.
He served as the 2021-2022 President of the SNMMI.
