H William Strauss, MD currently serves as an Attending Physician on the Nuclear Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Memorial Hospital in New York City. He joined the Memorial Sloan Kettering/Cornell faculty and staff in 2001, following 30 years of faculty, clinical and research appointments in radiology at the medical schools and teaching hospitals of Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Stanford and Cornell University medical centers. For several years in the early 1990's he also served as Vice President-Diagnostics Drug Discovery for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Dr. Strauss is one of the pioneers in the field of cardiovascular nuclear medicine and is internationally recognized for his work in that area. He is a prolific researcher, an active teacher and clinician and an author who has published five books, including the Atlas of Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine and Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine (lst & 2nd Editions). He has more than 500 published original and invited articles and book chapters. He is a past president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, former editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and sits on the editorial boards of that journal and six other juried publications. Dr. Strauss has been widely recognized for his work with named lectureships, life memberships and honorary degrees. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, fellow of the American College of Nuclear Physicians and the American College of Nuclear Medicine, and a life member of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.