How Radiologists Can Add Value to the Management of Patients with Crohn’s Disease

Dr. John R. Leyendecker completed his Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and diagnostic radiology residency at Emory University in Atlanta. His first fellowship was in vascular and interventional radiology at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio in 1993-1994, and his second fellowship was in body MRI at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis in 2001-2002. He has held faculty positions in the Abdominal Imaging sections of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem. In 2015, he joined the Radiology Department at UT Southwestern where he currently serves as Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations and as a member of the Abdominal Imaging Section.

Dr. Leyendecker has served on numerous committees of the RSNA, SAR, ACR, ABR, and ARRS related to MRI and Genitourinary and Gastrointestinal Imaging. He has co-authored two textbooks on the topics of abdominal imaging and MRI and is currently the Igor Laufer Visiting Professor for the Society of Abdominal Radiology. About the Earl Miller Lecture: Earl Miller, MD was one of the outstanding radiologists of his generation, and was the second Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF.