Richard Peter Jacobs, M.D., M.H.A.
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Jacobs is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Medical Imaging, Perceptive Informatics. He is responsible for the medical imaging component of worldwide clinical trials in research of oncology, hematology, neurology, cardiology, osteoporosis, diagnostic agents and medical devices. He advises several of the world's largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies on the use of imaging to determine the effectiveness and safety of their products.

Prior to joining Perceptive, Dr. Jacobs served as Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging at Memorial Health Care for six years from 1993 to 1998.

Dr. Jacobs is an American Board Certified radiologist with 21 years of clinical radiology experience in all forms of diagnostic imaging as well as minimally invasive interventions.

He has chaired or lectured at conferences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia at conferences on the impact of medical imaging in clinical trials.