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Dr. Ray H. Hashemi, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Medical Director
Advanced Imaging Center, Inc.
(1998-Present)
RESUME
Dr. Ray H. Hashemi (Dr. Ray) received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at
Santa Barbara (UCSB). He continuously remained on the Dean’s Honors List
during his 7 years at UCSB while maintaining a 4.0/4.0 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. He could not resist the
opportunity and earned his Medical Degree (M.D.) in just two years in
1989. He 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 6 months at USC and UCLA radiology programs. 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. He became board-certified by the American Board
of Radiology in 1994.
Dr. Ray also published a textbook called “MRI:
The Basics” in 1997, which has also been translated into
Japanese. In 2010 the 3rd edition of this book with major changes was
published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (385 pages and over 400
illustrations and images). It is one of the most popular MRI basics and
physics books amongst the radiology residents, radiologists and MRI
technologists in the U.S. and overseas. It is being taught at some of
major universities including UCSD and USC. He has also published almost
100 newsletters on important technology newsflashes and interesting
cases since 1999, all of which are posted on-line at
www.advanced-imaging-center.com.
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 had never been performed in the AV
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.
Advanced Imaging Center, Inc. currently has 4 sites, serving 4 major
cities: Lancaster, Palmdale, Valencia and Ridgecrest. Advanced Imaging
Centers have become Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita Valley and
Ridgecrest’s premiere imaging centers. They have become the imaging
centers that local doctors entrust to refer themselves and their own
family members to.
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 has
also developed a radiology RIS (Radiology Information System) management
software called EZRISTM, which enables integration of scheduling,
scanning, billing/collection and management. These products are FDA
approved and together offer one of the most technologically advanced and
easy-to-use papaerless Electronic Medical Records and Imaging systems in
the world.
Dr. Ray has been married for more than 17 years. His wife, Heidi Hame,
D.D.S., M.S. (Dr. Heidi), is a pediatric dentist, who has been
practicing in Lancaster since 1990. They have a 12-year old son and
enjoy traveling and spending time together as a family. Dr. Ray is also
a licensed private pilot. He and his son enjoy flying the skies of sunny
California whenever they get a chance. Dr. Ray and Dr. Heidi both enjoy
giving back to the community and are involved with various charity
organizations, especially those helping underprivileged children.
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