Hedvig Hricak

Hedvig Hricak was born in 1946, in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia and earned her MD degree from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1970.[2] She has been Chairman of the Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since November 1999. She is Professor of Radiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.[3]

Hedvig Hricak
Born1946
Zagreb, Croatia
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
Known forRadiology
AwardsDavid Rall Medal (2018) [1]
Websitehttps://www.hedvighricak.com/ 
Scientific career
InstitutionsMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medical College

Biography

Hricak earned her medical degree from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1970.[4] In 1982 Hricak joined the faculty of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she became Professor of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Urology and Gynecology.[4] While at UCSF, she earned her Dr. Med. Sc./Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.[4] In 1999, she became Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).[5] Hricak's past roles include:

gollark: Basically your "grandmother"'s argument - it's natural so it's good, which is of course wrong.
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gollark: Yes, so extremely bad, see.
gollark: Well, obviously social credit systems extremely bad?
gollark: I mean, there's no evidence of rainbow formation through this "peace and love" thing, but you can easily make rainbow-type patterns with a regular prism, or even just some plastic rulers.

References
  1. "David Rall Medal". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  2. "Hedvig Hricak – world innovator in tumor diagnosis". Nacional. No. 530. January 9, 2006. Archived from the original on 25 July 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
  3. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Physician Biography
  4. Zerhouni, Elias (January 2010). "Hedvig Hricak, MD, PhD, Dr(hc), President, Radiological Society of North America, 2010". Radiology. 254 (1): 10–12. doi:10.1148/radiol.09092542. PMID 20032134.
  5. "July 2018 MSK News". Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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