Our History

Below is a list of significant events in the history of Stanford University School of Medicine Radiology.

• 1904 - First actinographer (radiology instructor) hired at Stanford University
• 1945 - NMR co-discoverd by Felix Bloch, Professor of Physics at Stanford
• 1948 - Radiology becomes a separate medical department. Henry Kaplan selected as Chairman. Basic biological research initiated in department. First mouse colony established.
• 1949 - Nuclear Medicine Program started
• 1952 - Henry Kaplan and Edward Gintzon begin building first American medical Linear Accelerator
• 1956 - First Linear Accelerator in America installed at Stanford Hospital, San Francisco
• 1959 - Stanford Medical School moves to Palo Alto Campus
• 1962 - Henry Kaplan and Saul Rosenberg begin definitive trials on Hodgkin's disease treatment which lead to success
• 1972 - Malcolm Bagshaw becomes Chairman of Radiology
• 1986 - Department separated into Radiology and Radiation Oncology
• 1989 - Gary Glazer becomes Chairman and establishes Radiological Sciences Laboratory
• 1992 - Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging completed
• 1993 - First NCI T32 training grant awarded
• 1995 - MR activities designated as NIH National Research Resource
• 1996 - Lucas Center expansion and first 3D Medical imaging lab
• 1997 - Initiation of intensity modulated radiation therapy
• 1998 - First Multidetector CT, outside factory environment, sited at Stanford
• 1999 - First Clinical multidetector CT
• 2003 - Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) established
• 2005 - Molecular Imaging activities designated as NIH-funded National Research Center (ICMIC NCI P50)
  Lucas Center's second expansion
• 2006 - Third NIH Center, Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) - NIH U54
  Second training grant Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) - NIH R25T
• 2007 - Center for Biomedical Imaging at Stanford (CBIS) initiated
  Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS), formerly, Information Sciences in Imaging established
• 2008 - Sherman & Redwood city, Outpatient Imaging
• 2009 - Canary Center at Stanford established, Early Detection
• 2010 - Nuclear Medicine clinic opens
  In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center (ICMIC) Renewed
  Third training grant, T32 NIBIB
  Fourth NIH Center, Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) - NIH U54
  Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence and Translation (CCNE-T) NIH U54
• 2011 - Center for Advanced Neuroimaging established
  MRI-guided Cancer Interventions
  Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) renewed
  Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir, MD, PhD, becomes Chairman of the Department of Radiology
• 2012 - Lucas Center expansion III
• 2013 - Porter Drive facility opens
• 2015 - Training in Biomedical Imaging Instrumentation (TBI2) Established
• 2016 - Project Baseline begins
• 2017 - Establishment of the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics (PHIND) center