Erik Karl Paulson MD

Erik K. Paulson, MD, Robert Reeves Professor with Tenure and Chair of Department of Radiology. A national leader in abdominal imaging, his leadership, and expertise in hepatobiliary and pancreatic imaging has significantly impacted the way these disease processes are evaluated. He is considered a pioneer in the development of CT colonography. Most recently, Paulson has implemented state-of-the-art Dual Energy CT and enhanced ongoing efforts to reduce radiation dose in CT. He serves as a mentor for residents, fellows, and junior faculty.

Paulson’s work has won awards of excellence from the Radiological Society of North America, American Roentgen Ray Society, Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance, and the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists. He was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance and is currently the president of that prestigious society.

Paulson earned his Bachelor of Science (Phi Beta Kappa) in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado and MD at Duke University School of Medicine. Following an internship in Internal Medicine at Duke University, a residency and chief residency in Radiology at the University of Utah, and a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging at Duke, Paulson joined the Duke faculty in 1991. He was inducted into the honorary society Alpha Omega Alpha as a faculty member.