Osman Ratib

Professor Osman Ratib is dual board certified in cardiology and Nuclear Medicine and carries a doctoral degree in Biomedical Physics in digital imaging. In 1998 he was appointed as Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Radiology at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2005 he returned to Geneva to take the position of Head of Nuclear Medicine, and in 2006 he was appointed as chair of the Department of Medical Imaging and Information Sciences. He has pioneered several innovative projects including advanced cardiovascular PET-CT program and the first whole-body PET-MRI unit in Europe. He is also founding member and president of the OsiriX foundation, a non-profit organization for the promotion of Open-Source software in medicine. He is a founder and director of the Translational Molecular Imaging Institute in Geneva, funded by the Rolex/Wilsdorf foundation, affiliated to the University of Geneva and EPFL in Lausanne.