I am a Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Pediatrics with a focus on development of quantitative MRI techniques. I am also the Director of the Imaging Research Core at CWRU that has been in operation since 2006. In this role, I enable transdisciplinary imaging research interactions across CWRU, University Hospitals – Cleveland Medical Center, the Cleveland Clinic, and MetroHealth Medical Center. These interactions have led to multiple new scientific collaborations resulting in numerous publications and new NIH-sponsored grants. I have also served on multiple NIH, DOD, Foundation, and internal study sections to review research proposals for cancer, metabolism, as well as chronic and genetic diseases of the kidney and lungs. As a Professor of Radiology, I have over 20 years of experience as an MRI physicist with diverse expertise in both rapid interventional MRI techniques as well as high field small animal MRI acquisitions. My current research is exploring the development of new preclinical and clinical MRI acquisition and analysis techniques for the assessment of pulmonary diseases, genetic diseases including cystic fibrosis (CF), cancer, and neurological diseases. Through these efforts, my research group has developed a platform of quantitative imaging techniques that provide in vivo assessments of T1 and T2 relaxation times, Magnetization Transfer (MT) / Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, diffusion, and perfusion. Recently my group has led the effort to develop new, MR Fingerprinting (MRF) methods to evaluate detect and monitor disease progression in animal models and patients.