Dr. Perry J. Pickhardt graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1995. From 1995-1999, he was a resident in diagnostic radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis. After residency training, Dr. Pickhardt served in the U.S. Navy, spending one year as the Department Head of Radiology, U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and three years as the head of GI-GU Imaging at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Pickhardt joined the Abdominal Imaging Section at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2003, and was promoted to full professor in 2009. He continues to serve as the Chief of Gastrointestinal Imaging and was previously Medical Director of Cancer Imaging. His work in abdominal imaging has resulted in over 500 scientific publications in the peer-reviewed literature, with an h-index >90 and i10 index >401. He has served as PI on multiple NIH RO1 grants, has authored over 100 book chapters and textbooks, and has delivered over 500 invited talks. He has received seven best paper awards at the Annual Meeting for the SAR and was named “Most Influential Radiology Researcher” by auntminnie.com in 2016 and 2023.