To say that the last few years have been exciting would be an understatement. Stanford Radiology continues to experience striking growth in all areas and has formed long range plans to support visionary clinical, basic science, and educational goals.

The latest and most striking indicator of our success is the newly expanded Richard M. Lucas Center. Dedication of the new building coincided with the Department's 100th anniversary celebration in May. The approximately 20,000 square feet of new space will more than double the size of our current research center and will house state-of-the-art imaging research and educational facilities. Major installations include a 7T whole-body magnet, cyclotron, molecular imaging biology and chemistry laboratories, and a unique education center equipped with the latest technology for fully interactive imaging seminars. With the new building in the heart of the Stanford University campus, we will have created one of the world's largest academic centers for medical imaging; we estimate that in the next two years over 200 individuals will be sited within the Lucas Center and will use its resources to trail-blaze new areas in medical imaging.

We stand on the brink of a new age in global and personalized medicine. With premier clinical, research and educational medical imaging efforts, our goal moving forward is to be one of the major world leaders in the development of Personalized Medicine. Today, the revolution in molecular biology portends a transformation of medicine in which earlier and better diagnosis and personalized therapy will become inevitable. Some even dream that disease, once understood, can be prevented by appropriate methods before it becomes macroscopic or clinically evident. In the next era, we hope to fuse the worlds of Molecular Diagnostics and Imaging to initiate a new era in personalized medicine.