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Washington, D.C. — The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has elected Robert S. Ledley, DDS, to senior membership. Dr. Ledley is president of the National Biomedical Research Foundation at Georgetown University Medical Center, and a professor in Georgetown’s department of physiology and biophysics and the department of radiology.
Current active members of the Institute of Medicine elect new members from among candidates chosen for their major contributions to health and medicine or to related fields such as social and behavioral sciences, law, administration, and economics. Dr. Ledley is one of only five people who were honored this year by direct election to senior membership in the Institute of Medicine.
Dr. Ledley is best known for his invention of the whole body computed tomography (CT) scanner, which revolutionized the practice of radiology and earned him induction into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 1990. His work in applying computer technology to medical instrumentation, diagnosis, and imaging has yielded new methods of pattern recognition and medical image processing. He is also the author of one of the founding research papers in the field of medical informatics. For these and his other contributions to biomedical computing and engineering, Dr. Ledley was presented with the National Medal of Technology in 1997 by President Clinton.
Dr. Ledley is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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