Born March 31, 1921, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Graduated from Harvard Medical School with M.D. in 1950. Radiology Residency University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. American Board of Radiology 1954. Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Captain US Army Medical Corps, Chief Radiology Service, and Head of Mrdical Education Womack Army Hospital, Fort Bragg NC, 1957-59. Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Washington University, St.Louis. Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 1963-1989. 1989-1993 Professor Radiology, Associate Chancellor Special Projects and Director, Magnetic Resonance Science Center, 1993-2000 Special Consultant to the Vice Chancellor for University Advancement and Planning (Mission Bay Campus), University of California, San Francisco, and Professor of Radiology 2000-present Clinical Professor of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY Eight (8) honorary doctorates Aix-Marseilles; Catholic University, Louvain; Medical College of Wisconsin; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany; University of Toulouse, France; University of Montpellier, France. Univeristy of Novi Sad, Seerbia. Multiple medals from prestigious scientific societies. University of California San Francisco Medal 2000. The Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine 1989(Canada). Multiple honorary memberships in radiological societies throughout the world. Honorary member or fellow French, German, Italian, Swiss, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Polish Radiological societies, Royal College of Radiology UK, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, Royal College of Radiologists Thailand, International Society of Radiology, etc. etc. Honorary member Croatian Medical Society1985. The Alexander R. Margulis Chair at UCSF occupied by the Chairman of the UCSF Department of Radiology. Honorary Professor, Karolinska Institute, University of Belgrade; Foreign member, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences 1989. Foreign member, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences 1995. Member Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies. President, Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology 1972, Association University Radiologists, USA 1966. San Francisco Radiological Society 1967. Society of Chairmen Academic Radiology Departments (SCARD) 1968. California Academy of Medicine 1979. Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 1983-1984. Member of numerous U.S. and international editorial boards of medical journals. May 2000: Creation of the Alexander R.Margulis Award for Best First Time Paper Presenter at the Annual Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists. Multiple NIH research and training grants over the years, ending in 1989.
Over 250 articles concerned with gastrointestinal radiology, magnetic resonance imaging in magnetic resonance spectroscopy and radiological and health policy issues. Most important books - Alimentary Tract Radiology, four (4) editions (C.V. Mosby, St. Louis), Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1983, and Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1984 (both Radiology Research and Education Foundation). Book on leadership: Be in Charge Harcourt 2002, Scientific Director, STAR (Schering- Siemens Training in Advances in Radiology) 1993-2004. Chairman of the Board of ITI Medical Technologies 1995-. Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board R-2 Technologies, 1995. Member Board of Directors, Accuimage. 1996-2002,Chairman Medical Advisory Board Accuimage 2002-2003.
