James Conklin | MD, Senior Vice President, Medical and Scientific Affairs |
Dr. James Conklin is the Senior Vice President for Medical and Scientific Affairs at ICON Medical Imaging. Dr. Conklin is a serial entrepreneur, who pioneered commercial imaging core laboratories as the founder, CEO and Chairman of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc, which he founded in 1990. He has had numerous senior executive positions in life science technology companies including CEO of EDC and LIMS software companies and Chief Business Officer of a genomics company.
Before founding Bio-Imaging, Dr. Conklin was Vice President of Product Development at Cytogen Corporation, held a senior position at Centocor, Inc, and was the Director of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) the largest radiobiology research institute in the world with nearly 500 people. While at AFRRI, his laboratory was involved in discovering and developing biological response modifiers to treat various diseases using imaging technologies as a tool to measure treatment effectiveness. He was a member of an advisory team to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Department of Defense representative to the radiation science panel of the White House Office of the President Science and Technology.
Dr. Conklin is a Johns Hopkins trained research physician with undergraduate and graduate training in electrical/computer engineering and a Masters degree in management. He has been a Professor of Radiology at several medical schools, published over 100 scientific papers and edited four books. One of the textbooks, Imaging Techniques in Biology and Medicine published by Academic Press in 1987, provided the technical foundation for Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. He is board certified in both internal medicine and nuclear medicine. Early in his career, Dr. Conklin flew Phantom fighter aircraft in the US Air Force.