Richard Frank, M.D., Ph.D. is vice president of clinical and medical strategy at GE Healthcare, Princeton, N.J. He has two decades of experience designing and implementing clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry, and built the Experimental Medicine Department at Pharmacia before joining GE Heatlhcare in 2005.  Dr. Frank earned M.D. and Ph.D. (pharmacology) degrees concurrently and joined the pharmaceutical industry upon completion of his clinical training in 1985. He is past president and founding director of the Society of Non-invasive Imaging in Drug Development and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Royal College of Physicians. He serves on the scientific review board for the Institute for the Study of Aging and is a member of the editorial board of Molecular Imaging and Biology.