Chair, Imaging Sciences Program
Dr. Li was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada in 1974. He earned his MD in 1981 from the University of Toronto, Canada. He completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Toronto and was chief resident in 1986. Dr. Li then completed an MRI fellowship at the University of Michigan. In 1987, Dr. Li became the Co-director of MRI at the University of Florida and in 1990 he served as the Director of Body MRI at St. Joseph's Hospital and Barrows Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Li joined the Stanford University Medical Center's Department of Radiology in 1991 and became a tenured Associate Professor in 1997.
Dr. Li's research interest includes development of novel site and disease specific drug delivery systems and
has been the Director of the In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Program at the Stanford University. He
has served as principal or co-investigator on multiple different grants with funding from institutional, industrial and federal sources. He has multiple patents on novel drug delivery systems and combining imaging with genomics and proteonomics for developing new molecular targets and personalizing treatments.
Dr. Li has won over ten different research awards from four different professional organizations and four
Teacher of the Year awards at three different institutions. He has over 150 published abstracts in national and international meetings, lectured at many different courses and workshops and was course director for two courses. He has published more than 65 scientific articles, 5 book chapters and 15 review articles, a reviewer of scientific manuscripts for five journals and is on the editorial board of a new journal on molecular imaging.
