In Vivo Imaging Facility Personnel

IVIF Co-Directors

Rivka Colen, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh
Director, Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor (RECIST) Core
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Email: colenrr@upmc.edu

Jessie R. Nedrow, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh
Email: nedrowj@upmc.edu

Preclinical MRI Leadership

T. Kevin Hitchens, PhD, MBA
Director of Preclinical MRI, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Director of the Animal Imaging Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Associate Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
Email: tkh17@pitt.edu

Preclinical PET Leadership

TBA

Preclinical Imaging Technical Support

Kathryn Day
Technical Support, Preclinical PET/CT and Optical Imaging
Email: ked63@pitt.edu

Joseph Latoche
Technical Support, Preclinical PET/CT and Optical Imaging
Email: jdl10@pitt.edu

Lesley Foley
Technical Support, Preclinical MRI
Email: lmf107@pitt.edu

Clinical MRI and PET Leadership

Rivka Colen, MD 
Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh
Director, Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor (RECIST) Core
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

Clinical PET and MRI Faculty Support

Charles Laymon, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Email: cml14@pitt.edu

Brian Lopresti, MSNE
Physicist and Instructor of Radiology
Email: brianl@pitt.edu

N. Scott Mason, PhD
Radiochemist and Assistant Professor of Radiology
Email: masons@pitt.edu

Chan-Hong Moon, PhD
Physicist and Assistant Professor of Radiology
Email: chm11@pitt.edu

PET Consultants

Chester Mathis, PhD
UPMC Endowed Chair of PET Research
Distinguished Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh

James Ruszkiewicz
Clinical PET Manager

Optical and Ultrasound Imaging Leadership

TBA