Eric H. Norby, MD, a native of Arlington, Virginia, is board-certified in both Nuclear Medicine and Pathology. He attended George Washington University, graduating with honors as a double science major in Chemistry and Zoology. His medical training was at the Medical College of Virginia, where he graduated under a military scholarship in 1980. His first postgraduate studies were in Pathology, and he completed his residency in 1984 with board certification the same year.

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After serving a year in Korea as a staff pathologist, he was accepted for a two-year fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He remained at Walter Reed for three years as a staff Nuclear Medicine physician, with an academic appointment as an assistant professor in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. At Walter Reed he was active both in research and teaching.