Vasken Dilsizian, MD, MASNC, FACC, has been a professor of medicine and radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine since 2001, and chief of the division of nuclear medicine since 2007. He graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1982. This was followed by Internal Medicine residency at Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1985, Fellowship in Cardiology at Boston University Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospitals in 1988, and Nuclear Medicine residency at the National Institutes of Health in 1992. He is the immediate past President of the SNMMI (2019-2020) and on the Board of Directors of ASNC. He serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH, Clinical Center (2018-2022) and the Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the NRC on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI; 2021-2022). His research efforts over the past 30 years have culminated into over 260 original, peer-reviewed manuscripts and invited editorials and 10 books.