Hedvig Hricak

Dept of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States of America

Hedvig Hricak

Academic positions:
- Chair of the Department of Radiology
- She holds a senior position within the Program of Molecular and Pharmacology Therapeutics at the Sloan-Kettering Institute
- Professor of Radiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York.

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Hricak's primary field of research is cross-sectional, anatomic and molecular imaging of the genitourinary tract, with particular emphasis on oncologic imaging. She has consistently been a leader in applying new imaging modalities to genitourinary diseases. Among the imaging applications she has pioneered are: the use of MR and CT for gynecological cancer, the application of MRI and MR spectroscopy to prostate cancer, the use of ultrasound to study medical renal disease, the use of molecular imaging in the early detection of prostate cancer and bone metastases, and the application of PET/CT in ovarian and prostate cancer.

Any other information:
Dr Hricak is a member of the Institute of Medicine. She also serves on the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors and on the Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America. She am currently the director of an NIH-funded research study on risk assessment for prostate cancer patients using MRI and MR spectroscopy.

She received the Marie Curie Award from the Society of Women in Radiology in 2002 and the gold medal from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 2003. She is an honorary member of the German Radiological Society, the British Institute of Radiology, and the Croatian Academy of Science and Art, and an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Medicine. She holds an honorary doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich, Germany. In 2002, she was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Dr. Hricak is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, the International Soc. for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the Soc. of Uroradiology.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Oncology > Genitourinary Cancers (since 14 November 2005)

Links

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All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Unusual tumours involving the prostate: radiological-pathological findings.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak with Yulia Lakhman
  
• 3.0
  Role of magnetic resonance methods in the evaluation of prostate cancer: an Indian perspective.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak with Amita Dave
  
• 3.0
  Quantum dots: emerging applications in urologic oncology.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak with Jan Grimm
  
• 3.0
  Mouse models of prostate adenocarcinoma with the capacity to monitor spontaneous carcinogenesis by bioluminescence or fluorescence.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak with Dr Jan Grimm
  
• 6.0
  Impact of tumor size on the predictive ability of the pT3a primary tumor classification for renal cell carcinoma.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak
  
• 6.0
  Diagnosis of prostate cancer in patients with an elevated prostate-specific antigen level: role of endorectal MRI and MR spectroscopic imaging.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak
  
• 6.0
  Age adjusted prostate specific antigen and prostate specific antigen velocity cut points in prostate cancer screening.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak
  
• 3.0
  Case report: Perforated haemorrhagic cholecystitis: MR imaging features.
  Recommended by Hedvig Hricak