2006: Charles Higgins, San Francisco, USA

Charles B. Higgins is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College and underwent subspeciality residency, research and fellowship training at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, and Stanford Medical Centers. He has been actively involved in laboratory research for approximately 21 years involving cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology, cardiac imaging, especially magnetic resonance imaging. He has conducted clinical and laboratory research on cardiovascular application of MRI since 1983 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award of the American Heart Association in 1990, the Outstanding Researcher Award of the RSNA in 2000, and the Outstanding Alumnus of Jefferson Medical College in 2001. He has also delivered 36 titled lectureships in the United States and outside of the United States. He is or has been a member of the editorial boards of 14 scientific journals and is currently a member of the editorial boards of Circulation, the American Journal of Cardiology, and the Journal of American College of Cardiology. Dr. Higgins is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular MR. Doctor Higgins was the director of a NIH-funded research-training grant in cardiac imaging for nearly twenty years. More than 100 research fellows have worked under his supervision at UCSF.