How the Addition of Multiparametric MRI has Changed a Private Practice Setting in Prostate Screening
Richard G. Barr, MD, PhD, FACR, FSRU, describes how mpMRI has changed prostate cancer screening for a small radiology practice group.
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Richard G. Barr, MD, PhD, FACR, FSRU, FAIUM
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Rootstown, Ohio
Richard G. Barr, MD, PhD, FACR, FSRU, FAIUM, is a Professor of Radiology at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, and a practicing radiologist at Southwoods Imaging in Boardman, Ohio. Dr. Barr also serves as the Editor in Chief at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), as President of Radiology Consultants Inc. of Youngstown, Ohio, and as a co-chair with the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance® (QIBA®) Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) committee of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). His clinical interests include breast imaging, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, and elastography.
Dr. Barr earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Ohio State University in Columbus and earned a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Dr. Barr earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and then completed an internal medicine internship at University Hospitals in Cleveland. He studied radiology and served as Chief Resident in Diagnostic Radiology at Ohio’s University of Cleveland, then went on to complete a cross-sectional imaging fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Barr has been involved in contrast-enhanced ultrasound and elastography for over 20 years. He has published several book chapters, three books, and over 200 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Barr has presented over 600 scientific and educational presentations, has given invited lectures worldwide. and has been the principal investigator on several ultrasound contrast agent clinical trials. Dr Barr is a fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, the Society of Abdominal Radiology, the International Ultrasound Contrast Society, and the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. He received a 2017 Radiological Society of North America Honored Educator Award, and Aunt Minnie named him a semifinalist for the most influential radiology researcher in 2017.
Talks by Richard G. Barr, MD, PhD, FACR, FSRU, FAIUM