David Gultekin, PhD

Professor, Chief Physicist

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Neuroradiology

Classification:

Faculty

• BS, Istanbul Technical University
• MS, Stevens Institute of Technology
• MS, Yale University
• MPhil, Yale University
• PhD, Yale University

Postdoctoral Training and Fellowship
Radiation Oncology, Duke University 
Biology, California Institute of Technology
Radiology, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Gultekin joined WVU Medicine as Associate Professor, Chief Physicist at the Department of Neuroradiology, WVU School of Medicine, and WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. He received a BS degree from Istanbul Technical University, an MS from Stevens Institute of Technology, an MS, an MPhil, and a Ph.D. degree from Yale University. He also completed a graduate program in materials science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He had postdoctoral and fellowship training in radiation oncology, physics and biology, and radiology at Duke University, California Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University, respectively. He had joint faculty appointments as Assistant Attending and Assistant Professor in medical physics and radiology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell Medical College. He also held faculty appointments and conducted research at Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Columbia University. He also served as Radiation Safety Officer at Huntington Medical Research Institutes, MRI Safety Officer, and Chair of the MRI Safety Committee at Columbia University. He provided a broad range of physics and imaging expertise for multi-modal cancer imaging and participated in multi-institutional clinical trials for the assessment of response to radiation, chemical cytotoxic, and targeted therapies such as monoclonal antibodies and anti-angiogenic therapies. He developed methods and algorithms for processing large radiological datasets to enhance clinical practice and research. He investigated MRI techniques to measure mass and energy transport processes with high spatial and temporal resolutions and developed MRI methods for measuring radiation dosimetry, thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, heat transfer coefficients, specific heat, specific absorption rate, thermal power, and heat of reaction in substances non-invasively.