!!Gabriel Paul Krestin - Biography
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Gabriel P. Krestin is emeritus professor of Radiology at Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is presently board member and advisor to companies in the field of medical technology.\\
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Dr. Krestin was born in Romania and emigrated to Germany in 1974. He graduated in medicine at the University of Cologne in Germany in 1981 and completed residency training in radiology in 1988 and his PhD thesis (Habilitation) in 1989 at the same institution. In 1990 he moved to the Department of Radiology at the University Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland where he became associate professor and later full professor of radiology and head of the clinical radiology service. Between 1995 and May 1997 he was the acting chair of the same department before he moved to Rotterdam to become professor and chair of the Department of Radiology and later of the Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Between 1998 and 2010 he was a permanent Visiting Professor at Stanford University Medical School. Between 2012 and 2021 Dr. Krestin was the Chair of the Division Diagnostics & Advise at Erasmus MC and member of the Managing Board of the medical staff. Between 2017 and 2018 he was also the interim head of the hospital pharmacy department. \\
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Dr Krestin is the Past President of ESMRMB, Past President of ESR, and Past President of IS3R. He is a honorary member of many national scientific societies, an honorary fellow of the ACR and of the RCR and member of the National Academy of Medicine (US). In 2021 he was named the most influential radiology researcher in Europe and in 2022 he became a knight in the order of the Dutch Lion. \\
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He is author of over 470 original articles, of over 70 book chapters, and editor of 7 books some of which have been translated in several languages. His main areas of research are: imaging of abdominal organs and cardio-vascular diseases, molecular imaging and population imaging. His research was supported by numerous grants from European and national research organizations, charities and industry. \\
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Dr. Krestin was the founder of the European Institute of Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR) and served as its Scientific Director from 2014-2023. He was also the founder of Quantib BV, a startup company involved in the field of radiology AI.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit gkrestin}][{ALLOW upload gkrestin}][{ALLOW comment All}]