Greg Metzger is a professor of Radiology and Division Director of UHF MRI Resources at the world-renown Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. His group focuses on ultrahigh field magnetic resonance imaging technology development and translation. He received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1997. His graduate research, conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Xiaoping Hu, focused on novel magnetic resonance chemical shift imaging techniques. After his graduate studies, Dr. Metzger accepted a position with Philips Medical Systems as a clinical scientist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. In this position, he expanded his knowledge in clinical research with specific work on breast, kidney, cardiac and brain MRI applications. In his final two years of his eight year tenure with Philips, he worked at NIH as a senior clinical scientist focusing on diagnostic prostate imaging and MRI guided prostate interventions. With a desire to return to academia, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Minnesota in 2005 with a joint appointment in the departments of Radiology and Urologic Surgery.
