Robert Herfkens

Clinical Focus

• Diagnostic Radiology
• Radiology

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Chair for Clinical Technology, Department of Radiology, Stanford University (2005 - present)
• Director of MRI, Department of Radiology, Stanford University (1990 - present)
• Director of Destination Digital (PACS–digital imaging transfer), Department of Radiology, Stanford University (2001 - present)
• Co-director of PET/CT, Department of Radiology, Stanford University (2002 - 2004)

Honors and Awards

• Lauterbur Award, Society of Computed Body Tomography and MR (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Fellow, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2001)
• President, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (1998-1999)
• Chair, Safety Committee, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (1996-1997)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Medicine
• Radiology

Community & International Work

• Multiple Committees 

Research Interests

Imaging of myocardial diseases with magnetic resonance, imaging and spectroscopy

Clinical Trials

• Evaluating Sunitinib Therapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma Using F-18 FDG PET/CT and DCE MRI Recruiting
• PET/CT and Whole-Body MRI for Detection of Skeletal and Soft Tissue Metastases Recruiting
• Cervical Nodal Mets in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of H&N - MRI, FDG-PET, & Histopathologic Correlation No longer recruiting

Publications

• Initial experience characterizing a type I endoleak from velocity profiles using time-resolved three-dimensional phase-contrast MRI. Hope TA, Zarins CK, Herfkens RJ. J Vasc Surg. 2009; 49 (6): 1580-4
• Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Who Received Gadopentetate Dimeglumine. Hope TA, Herfkens RJ, Denianke KS, Leboit PE, Hung YY, Weil E. Invest Radiol. 2009
• MRI and (1)H MRS of the breast: presence of a choline peak as malignancy marker is related to K21 value of the tumor in patients with invasive ductal carcinoma. Geraghty PR, van den Bosch MA, Spielman DM, Hunjan S, Birdwell RL, Fong KJ, Stables LA, Zakhour M, Herfkens RJ, Ikeda DM. Breast J. 2008 Nov-Dec; 14 (6): 574-80
• The aortopathy of bicuspid aortic valve disease has distinctive patterns and usually involves the transverse aortic arch. Fazel SS, Mallidi HR, Lee RS, Sheehan MP, Liang D, Fleischman D, Herfkens R, Mitchell RS, Miller DC. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008; 135 (4): 901-7, 907.e1-2
• Molecular imaging techniques in body imaging. Margolis DJ, Hoffman JM, Herfkens RJ, Jeffrey RB, Quon A, Gambhir SS. Radiology. 2007; 245 (2): 333-56