Vincent M. Mellnick, MD received his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, respectively.  After completing both radiology residency and abdominal imaging fellowship at Washington University’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, he remains on staff there and is currently an Associate Professor of Radiology, serving as the Abdominal Imaging section chief as well as the co-director of Emergency Radiology service.  He has been named a Lifetime Honored Educator by the Radiological Society of North America and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and invited publications.