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119 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine D r. Justin D. Pearlman was driven to enter the medical field in light of a loved one’s passing from medical complications. Dr. Pearlman has since made it his life’s mission to help others to the best of his ability. He received a BA in mathematics from Harvard University in 1975 and an MD from the University of Connecticut Medical Center in 1980. Dr. Pearlman continued his education and achieved an ME in biomedical engineering in 1985 and a PhD in engineering and applied sciences in 1986, both from the University of Virginia. Additionally, Dr. Pearlman holds an honorary MA from Dartmouth College. Since 1988, Dr. Pearlman has invested his career in the world of education. Currently, Dr. Pearlman is a professor of medicine at the University of California Los Angeles and a professor of engineering and medicine at Dartmouth College. Dr. Pearlman has also taught at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, since 1992, he has been director of magnetic resonance technology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Throughout his years of research, there are a number of findings that Dr. Pearlamn discovered. While working on his master’s thesis, he devised a concept in diffusion imaging, which turned out to be one of the key ways for early stroke detection and is now utilized worldwide. He also came up with the idea of mild cardio tagging, which is to leave a magnetization pattern to be able to watch movement of muscles. Dr. Pearlman is a grantee of the New York Cardiac Center, the American Heart Association, the Whitaker Foundation, Hewlett-Packard and Sterling Drug. Additionally, he is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, the American Federation for Medical Research, the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the Radiological Society of North America, among others. Dr. Pearlman’s advice to aspiring medical students is to be skeptical, as 50% of what is learned in medical school is going to be proven wrong. He also offers that it is important to understand the fundamentals and figure out ways to re- examine everything. JUSTIN D. PEARLMAN, MD, PHD PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE University of California Los Angeles Brookline, MA EDUCATION