Fred Prior

Fred Prior, Ph.D. (CS), MS (BME), MA (Anthro), BA (Chem) is the Director of the Electronic Radiology Laboratory of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and a Research Associate Professor of Radiology, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine. His research interests include Image Databases and Multi-scale Information Management, Medical Information Management Systems, and Neural Information Processing.

Dr. Prior has 25 years of R&D experience focused mostly on the design of advanced medical information management and communication technologies. He has worked in a variety of R&D environments ranging from Silicon Valley startups to major multi-national corporations in the US and Europe. He has held senior management positions with Imatron, Siemens Medical Systems, Philips Medical System, Cemax-Icon and Eastman Kodak and was formerly a member of the faculty of the departments of Radiology, Neuroscience and Bioengineering at Penn State University College of Medicine.