John Seibyl, M.D.,
Distinguished Scientist and Chairman of the Board

Dr. Seibyl co-founded IND with Dr. Marek in 2001 and has provided scientific leadership since IND’s founding.  Prior to IND,  Dr. Seibyl was Chief, Section of Nuclear Medicine and Associate  Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree at Yale College and completed his medical degree at Case-Western Reserve University in  Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Seibyl trained as a post-doctoral fellow in the  Department of Psychiatry at Yale University where he won the Seymour  Lustman Research Prize in the Department of Psychiatry two consecutive years. He joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor upon completion of this training. While on the psychiatry faculty Dr. Seibyl's interest in brain imaging led to his returning for a training Fellowship in  Nuclear Medicine at Yale under Dr. Paul Hoffer. He was recruited to the  Diagnostic Radiology faculty and was appointed the Director of the NeuroSPECT Center, a clinical brain imaging research lab in the Section of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Seibyl subsequently became Chief of the Section of Nuclear Medicine and Director of the Yale/VA PET Center. Dr. Seibyl has won numerous grants and contracts in the context of his work in brain imaging. He serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and is a frequent reviewer for top-tier nuclear imaging journals. He serves on international panels for his work in neurodegenerative disease imaging, working closely with Dr. Marek to establish the NeuroSPECT Center as the premier Parkinson’s disease brain imaging research center in the world. Recent projects include the development of a web-based normal brain image database, and on-going work applying brain imaging techniques and analytic methods to improve the diagnosis and assessment of disease status in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.