Dr. Richard Briggs is Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Neuroimaging Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Adjunct Professor of Brain and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has authored more than 85 peer-reviewed articles, 155 abstracts, and 5 book chapters in various areas of magnetic resonance. He has served as an editorial board member for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Journal of Magnetic Resonance, and is currently Deputy Editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He has reviewed for 27 journals and served on numerous grant review panels for NIH, NSF, and other agencies.
He obtained a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Arkansas in 1978, did postdoctoral research at Yale and Oxford, and held faculty positions for 5 years at Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center and for 16 years at the University of Florida before coming to UT Southwestern in July of 2003. His research area is biomedical applications of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, with recent focus on investigating brain function and networks with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and emphasis on studying pain perception, language and motor recovery after stroke, Gulf war illness, use of fMRI to study other brain diseases and abnormalities, and reducing motion and susceptibility artifacts. Other interests include relaxation mechanisms, techniques development,diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and integrated multimodality imaging (EEG & NIR & fMRI).
At UT Southwestern, he is heading the neuroimaging component of Dr. Robert Haley’s research on Gulf War Illness.
