Robert J. Gillies

Dr. Gillies received his Ph.D. in Zoology from UC Davis in 1979. After a post-doctoral appointment at Yale University (1979-1982), he has held faculty positions at Colorado State Univ. (1982-1988), the Univ. of Arizona (1988-2008), and the Moffitt Cancer Center (2008-pres), where he is chair of the Department of Cancer Imaging and Metabolism, vice-chair of Radiology and director of the Center of Excellence in Imaging and Technology.

He has published over 243 peer-reviewed articles on the use of imaging and spectroscopy to interrogate tumor physiology, and is currently PI or co-PI on eight NCI grants or sub-contracts focused on cancer imaging. He has a long-standing interest in detailed image analysis to better describe tumor physiology and, in 2009, he coined the term “Radiomics”. He has been a major contributor to this field ever since, primarily in improved diagnosis of lung and prostate cancer.