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Barry Siegel, MD
Professor, Senior Vice-chair and Chief,
Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Barry A. Siegel, M.D. is currently Professor of Radiology and Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, Director of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and a member of the University’s Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center. Dr. Siegel has been at Washington University since 1962, when he matriculated as an undergraduate. He subsequently attended medical school, followed by medical internship and radiology and nuclear medicine residency at Washington University and was appointed Director of the Division of Nuclear Medicine in 1973.

Throughout his career, Dr Siegel has been active in nuclear medicine research, and has made contributions related to the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, the detection of thrombosis, and oncological applications of radionuclide tracers. For the last two decades his research efforts have focused on uses of positron emission tomography for cancer diagnosis and staging, as well as predicting and monitoring tumor response to therapy. He also has been heavily engaged in the development and conduct of multicenter clinical trials in the arena of cancer imaging with PET via leadership roles in both the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN). Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time to the development and operation of the National Oncologic PET Registry, and those efforts have helped to greatly expand coverage for PET by the Medicare program.

A prolific writer and editor, with over 380 journal articles, book chapters, and books to his credit, Dr. Siegel is also actively involved as an editorial board member for several journals, and served from 1988 to 2002 as the Editor In Chief of the Professional Self-Evaluation Program (the “Syllabus Series”) published by the American College of Radiology.

Dr. Siegel is active in government affairs, having served as a consultant and advisory committee chair for the Food and Drug Administration. He is also a past chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on the Medical Use of Isotopes, and a consultant to the NRC. His contributions have been recognized by several professional societies with the Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for outstanding contributions to nuclear medicine form the Society of Nuclear Medicine in 2003, the Peter Valk Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Academy of Molecular Imaging in 2008, and the Benedict Cassen Prize from the Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in 2014.

Dr. Siegel is a respected clinician at Washington University Medical Center and has been selected by the Mallinckrodt Institute’s radiology residents as an outstanding teacher. The Washington University Medical Center Alumni Association named a Distinguished Alumni Scholarship in his honor in 1997 and gave him an Alumni Faculty Award in 2004. Most recently, the medical school honored him with its Distinguished Clinician Award in 2013 and Barnes-Jewish Hospital gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.




 
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