Dr. Peter Yim is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Radiology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Yim received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, after having received an undergraduate degree in physics from Swarthmore College in 1986 and an MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from UNC in 1992. He received post-doctoral training in the Imaging Sciences Program at the National Institutes of Health from 1998-2002. He then joined the faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in the Department of Radiology. He is a member of the Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Dr. Yim is interested in cardiovascular disease and the development of novel radiologic methods for assessing cardiovascular function. His research emphasizes the role of computational methodology in diagnostic imaging. He is particularly interested in the hemodynamic aspects of cardiovascular disease and the use of magnetic resonance imaging for making hemodynamic measurements.

Potential implications for this include improvement in radiologic evaluation of carotid artery disease and renovascular disease. He is also interested in broader applications of computational methods in diagnostic imaging including improvement in the evaluation of cancer.