Patrick M. Colletti, MD

Patrick M Colletti MD FACNM FSNMMI is Professor of Radiology and Medicine and Nuclear Medicine Division Chief at the University of Southern California. He is board certified in radiology, nuclear radiology, and nuclear medicine. Dr. Colletti has 330 peer review papers with 12739 citations, h-index of 56 and i10-index of 192. He received a MSBME degree in biomedical engineering at USC in 2002. He has extensive editorial experience as past Cardiopulmonary Imaging Section Editor for AJR and current Editor-in-Chief for Clinical Nuclear Medicine. He was funded by the NIH from 2004 - 2008 to study the comparison of cardiac function by MRI with CT coronary calcium scores in 385 elderly volunteers from the South Bay Heart Watch cohort. He has completing NIH funded studies of 3T MRI of carotid artery plaque. He is Past- President of the American College of Nuclear Medicine and represents ACNM on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Radiology Research. Dr Colletti was the 2007-2008 President of LARS.