Emanuel Kanal
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Biography
Emanuel Kanal is the Director of Magnetic Resonance (MR) Services and Professor of Radiology and Neuroradiology in the Department of Radiology of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He graduated cum laude from Yeshiva University in New York in 1977 with a double major B.A. in Pre-Medicine and in Biology, and a minor in Physics. Dr. Kanal graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1981 with membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Medicine Honors Society, and completed his internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh. He completed his first fellowship in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and a second Fellowship in Neuroradiology at The Pittsburgh NMR Institute and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Kanal was the Medical Director of the Pittsburgh NMR Institute until its incorporation into the UMPC Health system when he became Director of MR Services in the Department of Radiology of the UPMC Health System, a position that he maintains to this day. Dr. Kanal is a Founding Member, Board Member, Officer, and/or Member of numerous national and international professional societies (including, among others, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Society of Neuroradiology, the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the Clinical Magnetic Resonance Society, the American Board of Radiology, and the American College of Radiology) and most recently founded and Chairs the American Board of Magnetic Resonance Safety. He has been granted fellowship in the American College of Radiology as well as of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and serves as a consultant and Special Government Employee to the FDA on MR safety issues for both the Division of Medical Imaging and Hematology Products/Drug Safety group (of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology) regarding magnetic resonance contrast agents as well as the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health regarding MR imaging devices. He has chaired and/or served on MR safety committees for over 30 years, was the chairman of the first national and international MR safety committees, and was the Chair of the American College of Radiology's MR Safety Committee from its inception in 2001 to 2012. He is the lead author of the American College of Radiology's White Paper on MR Safety and its contained MR Safe Practice Guidelines published initially in 2002 as well as each if its subsequent updates in 2004, 2007, and 2013. Dr. Kanal also created and founded the first magnetic resonance safety web site in 1995 and is co-author of the first MR safety textbook. More recently, Dr. Kanal founded and now chairs the American Board of Magnetic Resonance Safety, which certifies/credentials MR Medical Directors/Physicians, MR Safety Officers, and MR Safety Experts, the individuals charged with overseeing safety in clinical and research magnetic resonance environments. Dr. Kanal is also the first to have developed and presented, in 1991, the usage of timed bolus contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in humans. He has published numerous original, peer-reviewed articles, reviews monographs, abstracts, books and book chapters and lectures extensively on clinical MR and MR safety-related topics. He is also the author of one of the most comprehensive clinical Magnetic Resonance Tutor/Simulator software ever created, which is used extensively in his courses and lectures. Dr. Kanal has taught more physicians, house staff, and physicists about the physics underlying the MR imaging process and how to clinically apply it than any other physician or educator in the world today, and serves as a consultant to industry in the design and implementation of magnetic resonance imaging hardware, software, and MRI contrast agents. Dr. Kanal is also the creator of the MR Medical Director/MR Safety Officer Training Course, for which he is the only lecturer, and is the pre-eminent lecturer internationally on MR safety issues today. For the past several years he has served and specialized as an emergency neuroradiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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