Ronald M. Summers, M.D., Ph.D., is a tenured Senior Investigator and Staff Radiologist in the Radiology and Imaging Sciences Department at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD.  He leads the Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-aided Diagnosis Lab. He is a Fellow of the Society of Abdominal Radiologists, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and SPIE. His awards include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the NIH Director’s Award, and the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Mentoring Award. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Imaging and a past member of the editorial boards of Radiology, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, and Academic Radiology. He has co-authored over 700 journal, review, book chapter and conference proceedings articles and is a co-inventor on 17 patents. His research interests include thoracic and abdominal imaging, large radiology image databases, and artificial intelligence.