Biography:  David A Bluemke, MD, PhD

Dr. David Bluemke is Professor of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.   Dr. Bluemke is the Editor of the journal Radiology, the field’s most prominent scholarly journal.  He was previously the Director of Radiology and tenured investigator at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland and Professor of Radiology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Bluemke received his PhD in Biophysics in 1987 at the University of Chicago.  He also completed his MD at the University of Chicago, followed by radiology and fellowship training in Diagnostic Radiology at Johns Hopkins. 

Dr. Bluemke’s research has focused on early detection and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease using noninvasive imaging techniques, particularly MRI and CT.  He is well known for as PI for cardiac MRI studies in the NHLBI-funded Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), as well as for his creating diagnostic MRI criteria for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).  He was previously named the “most influential radiology researcher” by Aunt Minnie.com.  In addition to his focus on MRI, Dr. Bluemke established the NIH program for Infectious Disease Imaging, the NIH Photon Counting CT facility and sited the first hospital-based PET/MRI scanner in the United States.  His research programs have been funded by the NIH for the past 20 years.  He has an h-index of 133 and is an author of more than 800 peer reviewed papers, including “Normal values for cardiovascular magnetic resonance,” manuscript considered the reference for cardiac MRI disease in the field as well as more than 30 books and book chapters.