Peter B. Barker DPhil

Dr. Peter B. Barker is a Professor of Radiology and Oncology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He specializes in neuroradiology, in particular magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) techniques for the understanding and diagnosis of neurological, psychiatric and oncological diseases.

Dr. Barker received a B.A. degree in chemistry and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physical chemistry from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at California Institute of Technology before joining the Division of Magnetic Resonance Research at Johns Hopkins in 1989. In 1994 he accepted a position in the Department of Neurology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI, while teaching as an adjunct Associate Professor of Medical Physics at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. He returned to Johns Hopkins in 1997 as Associate Professor of Radiology in the division of Neuroradiology, and was promoted to full Professor in 2002.