Dr. Ravinder R. Regatte received a doctoral degree in Physics from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 1996. From 1997 to 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate in the Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. In 2004, he joined the New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA, as a Faculty Member, where he currently heads the Quantitative Multinuclear Musculoskeletal Imaging Group, the Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology. He is also a Professor of Radiology, working on the development of novel multinuclear (1H, 23Na, 31P, and gagCEST) imaging techniques for early metabolic and biochemical changes in a host of chronic diseases. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, NeuroImage, the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI), and Radiology. He is currently the Deputy Editor of JMRI. He was recognized for his excellence in medical imaging research and received the 2014 Distinguished Investigator of the Academy of Radiology Research and Biomedical Imaging Research award. He was also elected a fellow of the AIMBE and the ISMRM.