Chin K. Ng, PhD

Education/Training

B.S., Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN, Physics, 1981

M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Medical Physics, 1986

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Medical Physics, 1989

Postdoc, University of California, Los Angeles, Nuclear Medicine, 1989-1991

Research and Professional Experience

1981-1982
Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, Purdue University-West Lafayette, Indiana

1982-1989
Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1991
Postdoctoral Scholar, Division of Nuclear Medicine & Biophysics, UCLA School of Medicine

1991-1993
Assistant Physicist, Yale/VA PET Center, Yale University School of Medicine

1994-2002
Chief Physicist, Yale/VA PET Center, Yale University School of Medicine

1997
Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine

1997-2002
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine

2002-present
Medical Physicist, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Louisville Hospital

2002-present
Member of James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville

2002-present
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine

2003-present
Head, Section of Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine

Selected Awards and Professional Honors

1991
Society of Nuclear Medicine Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award

McNulty PH, Jagasia D, Cline GW, Ng CK, Whiting JM, Garg P, Shulman GI, Soufer R. Persistent changes in myocardial glucose metabolism in vivo during reperfusion of a limited-duration coronary occlusion. Circulation 101:917-922, 2000.

Van Dyck CH, Tan P-Z, Baldwin RM, Amici LA, Garg PK, Ng CK, Soufer R, Charney DS, Innis RB. PET quantification of 5-HT2A receptors in the human brain: A constant paradigm with [18F]altanserin. J Nucl Med 41(2):234-241, 2000.

DeGrado TR, Bergmann SR, Ng CK, Raffel DM. Tracer kinetic modeling in nuclear cardiology. J Nucl Cardiol 7:686-700, 2000.

Staley JK, Van Dyck CH, Tan PZ, Al Tikriti M, Ramsby Q, Klump H, Ng C, Garg P, Soufer R, Baldwin RM, Innis RB. Comparison of [(18)F]altanserin and [(18)F]deuteroaltanserin for PET imaging of serotonin(2A) receptors in baboon brain: pharmacological studies. Nuclear Medicine & Biology 28(3):271-9, 2001.

Bremner JD, Vythilingam M, Vermetten E, Southwick SM, McGlashan T, Nazeer A, Khan S, Vaccarino LV, Soufer R, Garg PK, Ng CK, Staib LH, Duncan JS, Charney DS. MRI and PET study of deficits in hippocampal structure and function in women with childhood sexual abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder. Am J Psychiatry 160(5):924-932, 2003.

Bremner JD, Vythilingam M, Ng CK, Vermetten E, Nazeer A, Oren DA, Berman RM, Charney DS. Regional brain metabolic correlates of alpha-methylparatyrosine-induced depressive symptoms: implications for the neural circuitry of depression. JAMA 289(23):3125-3134, 2003.