Richard L. Wahl, a nuclear medicine physician,[1] is the Elizabeth Mallinckrodt Professor and Chairman of Radiology, and Director of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. He is known for his work in PET/CT imaging.[2]
Wahl attended Washington University for medical school, then did residency training at the University of Michigan.
Wahl subsequently went on to become the Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine/PET at Johns Hopkins University.[3] In 2003, he was the first recipient of the Henry N. Wagner Professorship in Nuclear Medicine at Hopkins.[4] [5]
Wahl is known for his extensive research in molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and hybrid PET/CT imaging. He was the editor of one of the early textbooks in PET/CT Imaging.