RESUME
Dr. Ray H. Hashemi received his B.S., M.S.,
and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
California in Santa Barbara (UCSB). He was continuously on the Dean’s
Honors List during his 7 years at UCSB while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. He
wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Control and Parallel Signal Processing and
published a number of articles in some of the premiere engineering
journals.
After teaching as an Assistant Professor at
UCSB for a short period of time, he joined a high-tech company in the
Silicon Valley, working on a navigation system for the Air Force using
parallel processing and Global Positioning System (GPS), which was a
relatively new technology at that time.
While in the Silicon Valley, he was
accepted to an elite Ph.D. to M.D. program at the University of Miami
School of Medicine, a highly competitive, accelerated two-year program.
Dr. Ray earned his Medical Degree (M.D.) in just two years in 1989 and
then returned to southern California where most of his family resides. He
completed his radiology residency at Kaiser Sunset in Los Angeles, which
included 6 months of rotations at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
and about 6 months of rotations at USC and UCLA hospitals. He then
completed a one-year internationally-recognized MRI fellowship at Long
Beach Memorial MRI Center directed by Dr. William Bradley, the current
Chairman of the Radiology department at the University of California in
San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Ray published several radiology articles and
abstracts/presentations.
Dr. Ray also published a textbook called “MRI:
The Basics” in 1997, which has also
been translated into Japanese. In 2004 the second edition of this book
with major changes was published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (353
pages and over 400 illustrations and images). It is one of the most
popular MRI physics books amongst the radiology residents, radiologists
and MRI technologists in the U.S. and overseas.
After completing his fellowship, Dr. Ray
worked as the Medical Director of an MRI center in the South Bay for two
years. In 1998, Dr. Ray founded Advanced Imaging Center in Lancaster and
introduced many new imaging technologies and concepts to the Antelope
Valley area for the first time. These included new equipment such as OPEN
MRI, high-field short-bore MRI, PET scanning, Multi-Slice CT, and 3D/4D
ultrasound. Dr. Ray also introduced procedures that were never performed
in this area in the past. These procedures include ultrafast
contrast-enhanced MRA (including carotid, renal, pulmonary, and runoff),
breathhold abdominal MRI, MR Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP), Whole-body
CT scanning (HealthScan), Virtual Colonoscopy (VC), CT Coronary calcium
scoring, CT Coronary Angiography, MRA and CTA runoff, MR and CT
arthrography, MR and CT Urography, multi-slice CT scanning of the
appendix, and many more. He introduced the concept of “service-oriented”
imaging facility where the doctors and their patients come first.
Recently, Dr. Ray developed a revolutionary
easy-to-use digital reader PACS (Picture Archiving Communications System)
software called EZPACSTM, which allows digital “soft-copy”
reading of all imaging modalities on-site and remotely via the internet
using a Windows-based PC. He is currently working on developing a
radiology RIS (Radiology Information System) management software called
EZRISTM, that enables integration of scheduling, scanning,
billing/collection and management with EZPACSTM. In the future,
the doctors will be able to schedule patients online. This product will be
marketed to the radiology community after FDA approval.
Dr. Ray has been married for more than 13
years. His wife, Heidi Hame, D.D.S., M.S., is a pediatric dentist, who has
been practicing in Lancaster since 1990. They have an 8-year old son and
enjoy spending time with him. They are both involved with various charity
organizations, especially those helping underprivileged children.
