Charles George Peterfy MD, PhD

Charles Peterfy, MD, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of Spire Sciences. Dr. Peterfy is an internationally recognized leader in imaging for clinical trials and has been developing, validating and implementing innovative imaging techniques for 20 years. Dr. Peterfy is a board-certified radiologist with fellowship training from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Therapeutics from McGill University. He was attending radiologist at UCSF for 7 years where he also served as Director of Arthritis Research for the Osteoporosis and Arthritis Research Group. In 1998, Dr. Peterfy co-founded CCBR-Synarc Inc and served as its Chief Medical Officer until leaving to form Spire Sciences in 2009.