Dr. Rawson graduated Tufts Medical School is 1989. After an Internship at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, he completed his Radiology Residency at New York Medical College in 1994. Dr. Rawson completed his training at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University with a fellowship in Body MRI. He then joined the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia.

Dr. Rawson is the Warren Professor and has served as Chair, Department of Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Interventional Radiology at the Georgia Regents University for over a decade. He is serving his third year as the President of the Adult Division of the Medical Staff at MCG Health. He is a member of the ACR Economic Commission where he chairs the ACR Committee on Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payments (HOPPS) and the Committee on Economic Issues in Academic Radiology. He also chairs the ACR Committee on Governmental and Regulatory Issues in Academic Radiology. Dr. Rawson recently completed a four year term as a member of the CMS APC Advisory Panel where he chaired the CMS Sub-committee on Packaging. He is a Board Member of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute.