Dr. Ronald Lee Arenson, MD

Radiology Dr. Ronald L. Arenson is a radiologist at UCSF Medical Center and chair of Radiology in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His special interests include picture archival and communication systems, workload and finances in radiology, the future of academic radiology and research training. As department chair, he is responsible for radiology at four campuses - UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus, Mount Zion and China Basin, San Francisco General Hospital and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Francisco. Arenson was a systems engineer at IBM from 1963 to 1970. After serving in the Navy at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., he joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and served as associate chair of clinical services in Radiology and interim vice provost for Computing. Arenson, the Alexander R. Margulis Distinguished Professor of Radiology, joined UCSF in 1992 as radiology chair. He is a fellow of the American …College of Radiology and the Society of Computer Applications in Radiology. He also is president-elect of the Association of University Radiologists and past president of the Academy of Radiology Research.