Burton Drayer, MD, FACR, FANN, is an American radiologist and nationally recognized authority on the use of computed tomography[1] and magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosing neurological disorders.
[5] Drayer is the author of more than 200 publications and 41 book chapters[6] and was a consulting editor for Neuroimaging Clinics of North America from 1991 to 2005.
[2] He was elected president-elect of the Radiological Society of North America[2] in 2014 and was listed in New York Magazine's Best Doctors from 1996 to 2009.
Until 1984 he served as chief of neuroradiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, then, until 1986, director of neuroimaging.
Drayer then joined the St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, where, until 1995, he served as radiologist-in-chief and director of magnetic resonance imaging and research at the Barrow Neurological Institute.
In 2011 he was elected as chair of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Research & Education (R&E) Foundation Board of Trustees.