Dr. Clare Tempany is a diagnostic radiologist. She is the director of clinical MRI at the Brigham & Women's hospital and a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. She has been a faculty member at Brigham & Women's Hospital since 1991. Prior to this, she completed a MRI fellowship with Elias Zerhouni in the department of radiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Hospital. She completed her radiology residence at Loyola University of Chicago.

Dr. Tempany is an expert in Body MRI, specifically, Pelvic MRI. Her research interests include Pelvic Oncology, specifically, prostate cancer. She has numerous publications in this area, beginning in 1991 to the present day. Since moving to Boston, she has established a large Prostate Research Program, which includes diagnostic, staging, and treatment guidance programs. With many interests in image-guided therapy including computer-assisted technology development for multi-modal image display in the operating room, she has multiple grants to support these efforts including a NIH R01 grant for MR-guided Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Since 2000 she has been working in Clinical MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery. She has completed three trials in the use of MRgFUS for treatment of uterine fibroids. Using the device exAblate 2000, the data resulted in FDA approval of the device in October 2004. She continues her research in this area with a new NIH grant for MRgFUS for prostate cancer.

E-mail: ctempany at bwh.harvard.edu

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