Mark Haacke, Ph.D., is a world renowned physicist. He is one of the pioneers in MR angiography, fast imaging and cardiovascular imaging. He has focused on unified scientific and educational efforts in the field both from a research perspective (he is the author of MRI: Physical Principals and Sequence Design as well as an editor of the first text in MR Angiography with Dr. James Potchen also of Michigan at Michigan State University) and clinical applications perspective (he is editor of Current Protocols in MRI). He is the Director of the Imaging Program in the School for Biomedical Engineering, the Director of the MRI Institute for Biomedical Research, the Director of the MR Research Facility at Wayne State University, a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University and a Professor of Radiology at Loma Linda University. Prof. Haacke has recently been awarded the Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and will receive his award at the Annual Meeting in Kyoto, Japan this May, 2004. Today a great deal of clinical research is done in MRI. Training people in the field is critical. Prof. Haacke has personally trained over 50 students, post-docs, engineers, clinical fellows and research fellows.