Roderic Pettigrew

Roderic Pettigrew

Roderic Pettigrew

Texas A&M University and Houston Methodist Hospital
CEO of Engineering Health and Executive Dean for Engineering Medicine

Roderic Pettigrew, PhD, MD, serves as CEO of Engineering Health (EnHealth) and executive dean for Engineering Medicine (EnMed) at Texas A&M and Houston Methodist Hospital. Dr. Pettigrew also holds the endowed Robert A. Welch Chair in Medical Science. He was the founding Director of the US National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the NIH. EnHealth is the world’s first initiative to holistically integrate engineering into all of the colleges of a university that are a part of the health care enterprise. EnMed is the first constituent program, creating a school that integrates engineering into medical training to develop students/physicians who invent solutions to healthcare problems. Of note, an invention is required of each EnMed graduate. As the founding director of NIBIB, he oversaw all governance operations and chaired its National Advisory Board. Under his guidance, NIBIB became internationally recognized for its global leadership in developing and accelerating the application of transformative health care technologies. Previously, Dr. Pettigrew was a professor of radiology and medicine at Emory University, professor of bioengineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the Emory Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at the Emory University School of Medicine. In 2017 he was recruited from the NIH to the Texas Medical Center in Houston as part of the Governor’s University Research Initiative to lead the new joint Texas A&M and Methodist Hospital Houston-based effort to transform healthcare. An MIT graduate who finished his medical training at UCSD, he is known for his pioneering work involving four-dimensional imaging of the cardiovascular system using magnetic resonance (MRI). Dr. Pettigrew’s current research focuses on integrated imaging and predictive modeling of coronary atherosclerotic disease. Dr. Pettigrew has been elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering. He has also been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, India.