Jim Barkovich, MD, professor in residence and chief of Pediatric Neuroradiology at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and a renowned expert in the field of neuroradiology and pediatric neuroradiology, retired at the end of June 2020 after a long and successful career.
One of the world’s foremost pediatric neuroradiologists, at the time Dr. Barkovich began his tenure at UCSF, in 1986, imaging of the pediatric brain was performed rarely and typically with invasive techniques. Uniting innovations in imaging technology at that time—MRI and CT scans—with his knowledge of brain development, Dr. Barkovich laid the foundation for what has now become the clinical standard for pediatric brain imaging and simultaneously opened new vistas into the science of brain development and maturation.
In addition to brain development, he has greatly informed the…
