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Roderic I. Pettigrew
American medical imaging scientist and physician
Roderic Ivan Pettigrew is an American physicist, engineer, and physician who is CEO of EnHealth and Executive Dean for EnMed at Texas A&M University.
Roderic pettigrew biography sample
From 2002-November 2017, he was the founding director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[1] He is a pioneer and world expert in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Early life and education
Pettigrew was born in Georgia, the second of three children. He spent his pre-college years[2] in Albany, Georgia in the 1960s, during the peak of the civil rights movement.
His primary education was in a segregated school system, during the period that overlapped with passage and enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Following 11th grade and without graduating from high school, Pettigrew accepted an early admission scholarship from Charles E.
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