Robert Lufkin

Robert Lufkin, MD, has served as a full professor at both the University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Schools of Medicine. In addition to being a practicing physician, he is the author of more tan two hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers and fourteen books that are available in six languages. Among his many inventions, including several patents in artificial intelligence, he developed an MR-compatible biopsy needle which is used worldwide today as the "Lufkin Needle."