Jonathan M. Links, Ph.D. Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins CEPAR Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH)

Education and Professional Preparation

• Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins, 1983
• B.A., Medical Physics, UC Berkeley, 1977

Appointments and Professional Experience

• 2004  Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness, JHBSPH
• 2000  President, Society of Nuclear Medicine
• 1998  Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, JHBSPH
• 1989  Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, JHBSPH
• 1983  Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, JHBSPH
• 1983  Joint Appointment, Radiology, JH School of Medicine

Research Interests

• Non-Invasive Imaging ▪ Disaster Preparedness ▪ Education and Training ▪ Radiological Terrorism

Selected Publications 

• Bice AN, Links JM, Wong DF, Wagner HN: Absorbed fractions for dose calculations in positron emission tomography. Eur J Nucl Med 11: 127-131, 1985.
• Laube BL, Links JM, Wagner HN, Norman PS, Koller DW, LaFrance ND, Adams GK: Simplified assessment of fine aerosol distribution in human airways. J Nucl Med 29: 1057-1065, 1988.
• Laube BL, Links JM, LaFrance ND, Wagner HN, Rosenstein BJ: Homogeneity of bronchopulmonary distribution of Tc-99m aerosol in normal subjects and in cystic fibrosis patients. Chest 95: 822-830, 1989.
• Fintel DJ, Links JM, Brinker JA, Frank TL, Parker M, Becker LC: Improved diagnostic performance of exercise thallium-20l single photon emission computed tomography over planar imaging in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease-a receiver operating characteristic analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol 13:600-612, 1989.
• Links JM, Jeremy RW, Frank T, Becker LC: Wiener filtering improves quantification of myocardial blood flow with Tl-201 SPECT. J Nucl Med 31:1230-1236, 1990.
• Links JM, Frank TL, Becker LC: Effect of differential washout during SPECT acquisition. J Nucl Med 32: 2253-2257, 1991.
• Links JM, Leal JP, Mueller-Gaertner HW, Wagner HN: Improved positron emission tomography quantification by Fourier-based restoration filtering. Eur J Nucl Med 19: 925-932, 1992.
• Schauer DA, Seltzer SM, Links JM: Exposure-to-absorbed dose conversion for human adult cortical bone. Int J Appl Radioisot, 44:485-489, 1993.
• Links JM, Prince JL, Gupta SN: A vector Wiener filter for dual-radionuclide imaging. IEEE Trans Med Imag 15: 700-709, 1996.
• Links JM, Beach LS, Subramaniam B, Rubin MA, Hennessey JG, Reiss AL: "Edge complexity" and partial volume effects. J Comput Assist Tomogr 22: 450-458, 1998.
• Links JM, Becker LC, Rigo P, Taillefer R, Hanelin L, Anstett F, Burckhardt D, Mixon L: Combined corrections for attenuation, depth-dependent blur, and motion in cardiac SPECT: A multi-center trial. J Nucl Cardiol 7: 414-425, 2000.
• Links JM, Schwartz BS, Simon D, Bandeen-Roche K, Stewart WF: Characterization of toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics with linear systems theory. Env Health Perspect 109: 361-368, 2001.
• Links JM, DePuey G, Taillefer R, Becker LB: Attenuation correction and gating synergistically improve the diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion SPECT. J Nucl Cardiol 9: 183-187, 2002.
• Links JM, Becker LC, Anstett F: Clinical significance of apical thinning. J Nucl Cardiol 11: 26-31, 2004

Research Summary

• Jonathan M. Links, Ph.D. is a medical physicist whose interests include non-invasive imaging in biomedicine, biomarker development and validation, emergency preparedness, and radiological terrorism. Dr. Links directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness, a $5M CDC-funded training center for frontline public health workers.  He also has an NIH R01 on cardiac imaging. Dr. Links is currently Baltimore City’s radiation terror expert, working with the Health, Fire, and Police Departments.  He is also a member of the federal DHS Infrastructure Experts Team.

Awards and Honors

• 1995    Advising, Teaching, and Mentoring Award, JHBSPH
• 2000    Advising, Teaching, and Mentoring Award, JHBSPH
• 2003    Excellence in On-Line Teaching Award (Best Instructor),
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