Glenn Coates was honored by the Triangle Business Journal with the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award for Regional Medical Achievements over his 28-year career. An award ceremony was held on April 10 to celebrate his accomplishments at the Healthcare Leadership Awards in Raleigh. Throughout his career, he kept Wake Radiology on the cutting edge of radiology advancements. Some of his notable achievements include modernizing liver MRI, designing all-body MRI protocols that became the regional standard for decades, transitioning musculoskeletal and neurology to modernized fast-scan protocols, and performing the very first contrast magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), cardiac MRI, and 3D magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography in the region. He was also responsible for overseeing the expansion of MRI services from one outpatient magnet to more than eight fixed and mobile magnets, developing Wake Radiology’s breast MRI program, and assisting in creating Cardiac/Coronary computed tomography angiography services, and served as the director and administrator of Raleigh MRI Center for 28 years. Contact Glenn at [email protected].
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