Vikas Gulani is the Co-Director of the Michigan Institute for Imaging Technology and Translation (MIITT), and the Fred Jenner Hodges Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology. He trained in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and then did his MD and PhD work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His residency and fellowship training took place at the University of Michigan, and he also completed a postdoctoral year studying Physics at the University of Würzburg in Germany. He is also a member of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Radiological Society of North America, the Association of University Radiologists, the International Cancer Imaging Society, the Society of Abdominal Radiology, and the American College of Radiology. He is an active physician–scientist, with research interests in MRI technology development and translation; global access to imaging; quantitative MRI and relaxometry; fast imaging; and clinical body MRI, with a particular focus on both liver and prostate imaging.