WMIS names Gambhir 2017 president-elect

AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Aug 19, 2015

The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) has named Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, PhD, as president-elect for 2017.

Gambhir will serve on the WMIS board starting at September's 2015 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) meeting in Honolulu until his term as president begins in September 2016.

Currently, Gambhir is the chair of the department of radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His research has focused on multimodality molecular imaging of living subjects, with an emphasis on cancer imaging.

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