Dr. Hu is an Assistant Professor in Radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and serves as an attending Neuroradiologist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.  He received his medical degree at the University of Texas – Southwestern Medical School, where he also completed his medical internship and residency training in Diagnostic Radiology.  After completing his two-year clinical fellowship in Diagnostic Neuroradiology at Barrow Neurological Institute, he joined the medical faculty at Mayo Clinic in 2008.  Dr. Hu’s research focuses on the development and implementation of advanced imaging methods to improve diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment monitoring in brain tumors.  His initial work has sought to improve the accuracy of surveillance imaging in glioma, and his group published one of the first studies that validated the accuracy of Dynamic Susceptibility-weighted Contrast-enhanced (DSC) perfusion MRI (pMRI) to distinguish high-grade glioma recurrence from post-treatment radiation effects (e.g., pseudoprogression, radiation necrosis).  He and his group have utilized image-guide tissue analysis and stereotactic coregistration to help overcome the challenges of intratumoral heterogeneity.  Dr. Hu has recently published studies that have developed MRI and texture-based biomarkers of regional tumor cell invasion and intratumoral genetic heterogeneity in glioblastoma.  Dr. Hu currently serves on the Imaging Committee for the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology and is an Associate Member of the NIH Quantitative Imaging Network (QIN).