Burton Drayer

Burton Drayer, M.D.
Citizenship American
Fields radiology
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania, Chicago Medical School
Known for X-ray computed tomography and Magnetic resonance imaging

Burton Drayer, MD, FACR, FANN,, Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice, is an American radiologist and nationally recognized authority on the use of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosing neurological disorders.[1] He is the Dr. Charles M. and Marilyn Newman Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at the The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Drayer is the author of more than 200 publications and book chapters and was consulting editor for Neuroimaging Clinics of North America from 1991-2005. He is currently president-elect of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)[1] and was listed in New York Magazine’s Best Doctors from 1996 to 2009.[2]

Biography

Drayer earned an A.B. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. He earned his medical degree from Chicago Medical School in 1971 and completed residencies in neurology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and in diagnostic radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in neuroradiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1978. He is board certified in Radiology, Neuroradiology and Neurology.[2][3]

From 1978-1979 Drayer was Director of Neuroradiology at the University of Pittsburgh Children's Hospital. Until 1984 he served as Chief of Neuroradiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, then, until 1986, Director of Neuroimaging. He then joined the St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, where, until 1995, he served as Radiologist-in-Chief and Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Research at the Barrow Neurological Institute. In 1995 he joined Mount Sinai Hospital as Director of Radiology. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at Mount Sinai. From 2003 to 2008, Drayer served as President of Mount Sinai Hospital and Executive Vice President for Hospital and Clinical Affairs for The Mount Sinai Medical Center. He continues as Executive Vice President for Risk.

Drayer has served as a reviewer for the American Journal of Neuroradiology, the New England Journal of Medicine, Radiology, the Journal of Computerized Tomography, Neurosurgery, Annals of Neurology, Stroke, Neurology, and the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of US Radiology. Drayer is past President of The American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR). He also was President (1995–2001) and founding member of the Neuroradiology Education and Research Foundation of the ASNR. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) since 2003 and was chairman of the board in 2009. Currently he is the President-elect of the RSNA.

Awards and honors

Books

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "RSNA.org: Burton P. Drayer, MD". Retrieved 2010-02-08.
  2. 1 2 "Best Doctors". New York Magazine. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
  3. ↑ "Mount Sinai Hospital – Doctor profile". Retrieved 2010-02-08.

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