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Sandy Napel

Dr. Napel was born in 1952 in New York City, NY and was educated in the New York City public school system. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering Sciences from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his Masters of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1976 and 1981, respectively. He became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at University of California at San Francisco in 1981, and was a co-founder of Imatron, Inc., developer of the electron beam CT scanner, where he served as VP of Engineering. He joined the Department of Radiology at Stanford in 1991, where he is presently Professor, with courtesy appointments in Electrical Engineering and Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research), and where he co-directs the Division of Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS), and the Radiology 3D and Quantitative (3DQ) Imaging Laboratory. He has made contributions to the development of CT angiography, cardiac CT, visualization and quantitation of volumetric medical imaging data, computer-aided detection using medical imaging data and to the linkage of image features to genomics (radiogenomics). He holds 28 patents, has authored or co-authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications, 8 book chapters, and 300 presentations at National and International Meetings. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a Distinguished Investigator in the Academy of Radiology Research.