Biosketch

Dr. Ronald Neumann, a native of Watertown, Wisconsin, earned his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and his medical degree from Yale University. He completed residencies in anatomic pathology and nuclear medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

While teaching, doing research, and practicing nuclear medicine at Yale, Dr. Neumann also served as acting chief of nuclear medicine at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut. He came to the National Institutes of Health in 1985 as deputy chief of the Clinical Center's Nuclear Medicine Department. He became chief of the department in January 1988. Since 1998, has also held a dual appointment as deputy associate director for Imaging Sciences. Nuclear Medicine became a section of the Radiology & Imaging Sciences Department in 2010.

Dr. Neumann's research has focused on the radiobiology of radionuclides in cancer. In addition to his CC duties, Dr. Neumann served in the mid-1990s as a senior policy analyst for the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. He was a clinical professor of diagnostic radiology at George Washington University School of Medicine.

Selected Honors and Awards

Carroll College Distinguished Alumnus Award for Professional Achievement 2003; Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians; president, 1998, mid-Atlantic chapter, Society of Nuclear Medicine; CC representative, NIH Medical Board, 1993-1995. Advisor to the International Atomic Energy Agency Medical Division.

Selected Publications

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Carrasquillo JA, Weiner RE, McAreavey D, Neumann RD: Radionuclide, eds: I. Magrath; Chapter 50; The Lymphoid Neoplasms, Hodder Arnold, London, 2010.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Onyshchenko MI, Gaynutdinov TI, Englund EA, Appella DH, Neumann RD, Panyutin IG. Stabilization of G-quadruplex in the BCL2 promoter region in double-stranded DNA by invading short PNAs. (2009) Nucleic Acids Res. 31(22), 7570-80.

Gaynutdinov TI, Brown P, Neumann RD, Panyutin IG. Duplex formation at the 5' end affects the quadruplex conformation of the human telomeric repeat overhang in sodium but not in potassium. (2009) Biochemistry. 48(47); 11169-11177.

Gaynutdinov TI, Neumann RD, Panyutin IG. Assessing DNA structures with 125I radioprobing. (2010) Methods Mol Biol. 608:137-45.

Ndlebe T, Panyutin I, Neumann R. Analysis of the contribution of charge transport in iodine-125-induced DNA damage. (2010) Radiat Res. 173(1):98-109.

Sokolov MV, Panyutin IV, Onyshchenko MI, Panyutin IG, Neumann RD. Expression of pluripotency-associated genes in the surviving fraction of cultured human embryonic stem cells is not significantly affected by ionizing radiation. (2010) Gene. 455 (1-2):8-15.

Laskey WK, Feinendegen LE, Neumann RD, Dilsizian V. Low-level ionizing radiation from non-invasive cardiac imaging: Can we extrapolate estimated riskes from epidemiologic data to the individual subject? (2010) Journal of the American College of Cardiology. May;3(5):517-24.

Neumann RD, Bluemke DA. Tracking radiation exposure from diagnostic imaging devices at the NIH. (2010) J. American Cell Radiology. 7(2):87-9.

Hendrickson C, Purkayastha S, Pastwa E, Neumann RD, Winters TA. Coincident In Vivo Analysis of DNA-PK-Dependent and Independent End Joining. (2010) J. Nucleic Acids

Feinendegen LE, Pollycove M, Neumann RD. Low-dose cancer risk modeling must recognize up-regulation of protection. (2010) Does Response. 8(2):227-252.