Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, CEO of Engineering Health (EnHealth) and Texas A&M Vice Chancellor of Health and Strategic Initiatives, has been elected to a three-year term on the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) council. In the NAE appointment, Pettigrew will serve as part of the NAE’s governing body, providing oversight for general policies and programs while […]
Unique High-Performance MRI Scanner envisioned by Dean Roderic Pettigrew, receives FDA clearance
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided clearance of a unique MRI whole body scanner that Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., Inaugural dean of the School of Engineering Medicine, envisioned in 2018. This scanner has 2.5 times the sensitivity for seeing small things that the most powerful prior whole-body scanners can and 5 times that […]