Dr. Ferenc Jolesz is a native of Budapest, Hungary, where he completed his medical training before moving to the United States in 1979. After residency trainings and research and clinical appointments at Boston, in 1998 he was appointed A B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chairman for Research at the Department of Radiology of Brigham and Women's Hospital where he has been Director of the Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging since 1988. The Surgical Planning Lab (http://www.spl.harvard.edu), and the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Lab at this hospital serve as a center of groundbreaking therapeutic technology development.

The research efforts of Ferenc A. Jolesz research are centered on tensore imaging techniques in magnetic resonance imaging and image-guided therapy minimally-invasive surgery, including the use of real time MR image-guided surgical interventions, and the use of high intensity focused ultrasound as a tissue ablation tool integrated with MR imaging guidance systems.

In 1995, Dr. Jolesz was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also the 2002 recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award presented by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004).

Some of his recent publications: (with many coauthors) 2005 An In Vivo MRI Study of Prefrontal Cortical Complexity in First-Episode Psychosis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 65-70, (2004) Cavum septi pellucidi in first-episode schizophrenia and first-episode affective psychosis: An MRI study Schizophrenia Research., 71, 65-76, Middle and inferior temporal gyrus gray matter volume abnormalities in chronic schizophrenia: An MRI study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161,1 603-1611

Homepage: http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/ppl/jolesz/