Richard L. Wahl

Richard L. Wahl, a nuclear medicine physician,^[1] is the Elizabeth Mallinckrodt Professor and Chairman of Radiology, and Director of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. He is known for his work in PET/CT imaging.^[2]

Richard L. Wahl
Occupation	physician
Known for	PET/CT medical research

Early life and education

Wahl attended Washington University in St. Louis for medical school, then did residency training at the University of Michigan.

Career

Wahl subsequently went on to become the Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine/PET at Johns Hopkins University.^[3] In 2003, he was the first recipient of the Henry N. Wagner Professorship in Nuclear Medicine at Hopkins.^[4][5]

Medical research

Wahl is known for his extensive research in molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and hybrid PET/CT imaging. He was the editor of one of the early textbooks in PET/CT Imaging.