Rich joined TMRU in April 2009 from Toshiba America Medical Systems where he was Senior Manager of Clinical Science for the CT Business Unit. He developed clinical application research with luminary clinical collaborations, represented Toshiba in multicenter clinical trials such as CorE64, and created whitepapers on Toshiba CT technology. Rich earned his undergraduate degree in Physics from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and has over 17 years experience in medical imaging. Rich began his career at Imatron, Inc as a software engineer and clinical scientist where he developed cardiac perfusion and wall motion clinical applications and helped to develop scan control software. He spent 2 years as a CT Program Manager at GE before joining Toshiba in 2004.

At TMRU, Rich has built a global clinical research group under Toshiba’s Clinical Applications Research Center. This team of scientists, applications experts, and engineers develops and validates Toshiba’s cutting-edge clinical applications, manages international, multicenter clinical trials such as CORE320 and REACT, and acts as liaisons and partners to Toshiba’s key luminary collaborators such as Johns Hopkins University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and the University Health Network in Toronto.

Rich has authored multiple book chapters and peer-reviewed papers on medical imaging. He is Toshiba’s representative to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for CT safety, a member of the Medical Imaging Technology Alliance (MITA) CT group, a member of the AAPM Working Group on CT Protocols and Nomenclature, and a steering committee member of the Coalition for Imaging and Bioengineering Research (CIBR).