Peter Rothschild, M.D., is the founder and CEO of Image Enhancement Systems, an MRI solutions company, and oversees all aspects of the company. He is the key strategist in sales and marketing of the IES Dicom and enhancement workstations and accessories.
Dr. Rothschild is a Board Certified Radiologist and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of California at San Francisco.
His undergraduate training was at Indiana University and the University of Louisville. He earned his M.D. in 1981 at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky. He completed his Diagnostic Radiology residency at Indiana University Hospitals and achieved Board Certification by the American Board of Diagnostic Radiology in 1985.
In 1988, he joined the University of California at San Francisco, Department of Radiology, where he was the Clinical Director of the MRI research laboratory. This laboratory developed the first open MRI. Here, Dr. Rothschild became intimately familiar with the technology, theory and physics underlying magnetic resonance imaging, particularly in relationship to image quality. Dr. Rothschild is editor of the book, Open MRI, as well an author of numerous chapters.
He has taught many radiologists from around the world on the topic of MRI and has published numerous articles on the topic. Dr. Rothschild was the first to place an Open MRI (Access) unit in the Northwestern United States.
