Richard W. Briggs received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the Kansas State College of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, KS, in 1973, and the Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale and Oxford Universities. He has held faculty positions for 5 years at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center and for 16 years at the University of Florida. Since July 2003, he has been with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, where he is currently the Director of Neuroimaging Research Laboratory. He has authored or coauthored more than 99 peer-reviewed articles, 193 abstracts, and five book chapters in various areas of magnetic resonance. His current research interests include biomedical applications of MRI and spectroscopy, with recent focus on investigating brain function and networks with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and emphasis on studying pain perception, language and motor recovery after stroke, Gulf war illness, use of fMRI to study other brain diseases and abnormalities, and reducing motion and susceptibility artifacts. Other interests include relaxation mechanisms, techniques development, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and integrated multimodality imaging (EEG and NIR and fMRI). Dr. Briggs is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.