Robert M. Quencer, M.D. is the Robert Shapiro Professor of Radiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Radiology, a position he has held since 1992. With more than 40 years of clinical experience in New York City and South Florida, he completed his undergraduate studies at Cornell University, his medical degree from Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse (AOA membership in 1966) and his residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Following his residency, he completed an NIH sponsored fellowship in Neuroradiology at the Neurological Institute of New York. From 1972-1976 he was an Assistant/ Associate Professor of Radiology at the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn New York. He joined the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in 1976 as Chief of Neuroradiology. He became Director of MR Imaging in 1984 and Chair of Radiology 8 years later. In addition to his clinical, academic and leadership roles, he has published over 150 articles and book chapters in many areas of neuroimaging and has authored two books in neuroradiology. His research interest has centered mainly on spine imaging, intraoperative neurosonography, MR studies of CFS flow and spinal cord injury. Dr. Quencer was the PI on one of the sections of a Program Project Grant sponsored by the NIH on the imaging/ histology correlates of spinal cord injury. He has served on many national and international committees in neuroradiology. He is one of the founding members and former President of the Southeastern Neurological Society 1980-1981. Dr. Quencer was President of the American Society of Neuroradiology from 1994-1995 and served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Neuroradiology from 1998-2005. He chaired the Scientific Program Committee of the RSNA 2008-2010. He has been visiting professor and invited lecturer at many institutions both here and abroad. He was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Radiology in 1994 and was the recipient of the Gold Medal from the Florida Radiology Society in 2008. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal from the American Society of Neuroradiology.