Richard Carson, Ph.D. ’83

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Richard Carson received his Ph.D. in biomathematics this year with an outstanding record that includes a near-perfect grade point average and phenomenal research contributions. His performance in this very difficult field of study was so exceptional that he was excused from the written doctoral examination in his minor, physiology, because his “academic performance was so strong as to make further examination pointless.” He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in applied mathematics – biology.

Carson is the recipient of many honors and fellowships, including the George V. Taplin Scholar Award through the division of nuclear medicine at UCLA in 1982. He has numerous published articles, abstracts and technical reports, including the presentation of an original article on BLD-Software System for physiological data handling and model analysis at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care in Washington, D.C. He is a member of Sigma Xi and a research assistant at the UCLA Cancer Center BASE Unit.

Carson has made significant research contribution within the area of positron computed tomography, a novel medical imaging technique for examining human physiology in vivo.