Peter A. Rinck
University Professor of Medical Imaging
Doctorate in History of Medicine (Medical Climatology)
Academic Résumé
Classical school education. Medical school (Free University of Berlin). Early exposure to radiology in Switzerland, residency in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy at Charlottenburg University Hospital in Berlin. Further training in nuclear medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago. Senior Research Associate, State University of New York at Stony Brook (Research group of Paul C. Lauterbur; Nobel Prize in Medicine 2003). Subsequently physician-in-charge at the NMR research group at Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik, Wiesbaden, Germany, and resident in radiology at Wiesbaden General Hospital. Lecturer at the University of Mainz, Germany.
1986-2014 Adjunct and Visiting Professor at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Mons-Hainaut in Belgium. Since 1987 University Professor of Radiology; 1987-1994 Head of the Magnetic Resonance Center at the University of Trondheim, Norway (at that time Europe's biggest clinical and research MR facility). Since 2008 President of the Council, The Round Table Foundation (TRTF).
Visiting Professorships: The Neurological Institute of Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia (1986); Charité University Hospital, Medical Faculty of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (1991-1992); et al.
Since 1982 Chairman of the European Magnetic Resonance Forum (EMRF); president of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, 1985-1987; president of the annual meetings 1989 and 2002. Chairman of the Selection Committee of the European Magnetic Resonance Award and, since 2012, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Pro Academia Prize. For many years scientific consultant and expert adviser to international companies, organizations, and foundations (among them World Health Organization, European Commission, UN Industrial Development Organization, the Nobel Committee).
Honorary, founding, or ordinary member of numerous professional and learned societies. Among others, awards and prizes from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Max Kade Foundation, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European Commission, Fonds national de la recherche scientifique en Belgique, the Research Council of Norway, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Author and/or editor of several books — not only scientific or medical — an e-learning website in several languages, numerous papers in refereed journals (including fundamental research papers on the development of magnetic resonance imaging and AI for medical imaging) and communications to international scientific and academic meetings; since 1990 Rinckside (learned columns) — and a great number of contributions to the culture (feuilleton) sections of leading German newspapers.
There is, of course, far more to a life — beyond the "et al." … but not in this short résumé.
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