DC Metropolitan Radiological Society

Behram Pastakia grew up in Jamshedpur, a small city in India. It was a steel, coal, and iron ore company town owned by the Tata Iron and Steel Company. He attended medical school at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He showed great leadership there, where he became the chair of the International Medical Students conclave in 1972 on Population Dynamics while in New Delhi (supported by Swedish International Development Agency, USAID, & WHO) which paid airfares for medical students from around the world to come for five days to India to discuss the future of medical education globally.

When he moved to the United States in 1977 he obtained a Nuclear Medicine Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He also obtained a radiology Residency at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago in 1979. and a Body CT/Ultrasound Fellowship from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA.

His Academic appointments include the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland where he was involved with early development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He was also chief of Mammography at NIH and an Associate Professor of Radiology at Georgetown University and Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology at George Washington University while at NIH.

He has worked in private practice at Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Maryland with Clinical Radiologists and is now at the Veterans Hospital Medical Center, Washington DC. since 1994.

He is currently Chair of the Publications committee of FEZANA, the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, a faith based Non-Governmental Organization in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. As Co-Chair of the FEZANA UN-NGO committee he has led youth delegations to the UN conferences annually for twenty years.

As current regional Director for North America of the World Zoroastrian Chamber of commerce, he seeks to promote action at the nexus of intellectual, economic and social entrepreneurship.