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Ronald M. Summers received a B.A. degree in Physics and the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in Medicine/Anatomy and Cell Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Summers completed a medical internship at the Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a radiology residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an MRI fellowship at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. In 1994, he joined the Diagnostic Radiology Department at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he is now a tenured Senior Investigator and Staff Radiologist. Dr. Summers is currently Chief of the Clinical Image Processing Service and directs the Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Laboratory. In 2000, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, presented by Dr. Neal Lane, President Bill Clinton’s science advisor. In 2012, he received the NIH Director’s Award, presented by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins. His research interests include virtual colonoscopy, CAD, multi-organ multi-atlas registration and development of large radiologic image databases. Dr. Summers' clinical areas of specialty are thoracic and gastrointestinal radiology and body cross-sectional imaging.

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