OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 5, 2015 – Georgia Tourassi, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
AIMBE is a leader in advocating the benefit of medical and biological engineering to society, and the honor recognizes “the most accomplished and distinguished medical and biological engineers responsible for innovation and discovery.”
Tourassi is director of ORNL’s Health Data Sciences Institute and the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Center in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division. Previously, she was an associate professor of radiology and the medical physics graduate program at Duke University Medical Center.
Tourassi has authored or coauthored five book chapters and more than 160 peer-reviewed publications with over 2,600 citations. Her research interests include medical imaging, computer-aided decisions support and biomedical informatics and her research has been featured in publications such as the Economist and Physics Today.
She received her bachelor’s in physics from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece and her doctorate in biomedical engineering from Duke University.
Tourassi was officially inducted as an AIMBE Fellow at a National Academy of Science ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
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