Shulkin, Barry

Barry Shulkin was born and raised in Amarillo, TX USA.

Undergraduate education: University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, major mathematics, graduate sum ma cum laude

Medical school: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX USA
Post graduate training:

1. Internship and residency in internal medicine: University of Texas Southwestern Affiliated Hospitals: Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital; Dallas, TX, USA
2. Fellowship in endocrinology: University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3. Fellowship in nuclear medicine: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ml, USA

MBA – University of Michigan School of Business, Ann Arbor, Ml, USA
Faculty at University of Michigan Medical School for 18 years: Professor of Radiology, interim chief of nuclear medicine for 18 months; director, paediatric nuclear medicine satellite unit Mott Children's Hospital 18 years; major interests were PET tracers for neuroendocrine tumors, and PET in paediatric oncology

Aug 2004: moved to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis TN as director, division of nuclear medicine, Dept of Radiological Sciences, oversee new biomedical imaging initiative in PET

Major interests:

• FDG PET/CT in paediatric oncology
• Positron emitting tracers in paediatric oncology particularly UC methionine in CNS neoplasms
• MIBG for the management of neuroblastoma
• Role of ischemia in the pathogenesis of myocardial dysfunction in patients with catastrophic diseases of childhood