BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Dr. Jeffrey Duerk

President Barbara Snyder and Deans Norman Tien and Pamela Davis of the Case Schools of Engineering and Medicine are pleased to announce the appointment of Jeffrey L. Duerk, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, as the new Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department. Dr. Duerk has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 15 chapters and invited papers; all are related to the physics and technology of magnetic resonance imaging, most recently in the development of interventional MRI. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and also the ISMRM’s Past-President. In 2005, Dr. Duerk was inducted as a Fellow of AIMBE. Dr. Duerk, who received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at CWRU, joined the university faculty in 1988. He also serves as the Director of the Case Center for Imaging Research, a joint venture between the Case School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland. Duerk came to the university from Picker International (subsequently acquired by Philips Medical Systems). In addition to his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve, Duerk holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. A noted inventor with 12 patents and eight pending, Duerk is co-founder of Interventional Imaging, Inc. (I³), a development-stage medical device company focused on vascular MR imaging and interventions. Its proprietary technology platform consists of a disposable catheter and related software. He brings his entrepreneurial and translational perspectives to the role as PI of the Case-Coulter Translation and Innovation Partnership that began in 2005.