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Dr. Backstrom received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his B.S. degree in Biology from Westminster College. He served his internal medicine internship at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Dr. Backstrom served as a General Medical Officer with the Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia where he was awarded the Naval Commendation Medal and Naval Achievement Medal. He completed his Radiology Residency and Adult Neuroradiology Fellowship at Duke University, completed a Pediatric Radiology Fellowship at The Children's Hospital of Buffalo, New York and a Pediatric Neuroradiology Fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Backstrom has been Board Certified by the American College of Radiology since 1993. He will be based out of Foundation Radiology Group's headquarters and Diagnostic Imaging Reading Center in Downtown Pittsburgh.
About Foundation Radiology
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the Foundation Radiology Group's
mission is to build the pre-eminent diagnostic imaging, radiology service
bureau and physician practice group network in the United States. FRG uses
state-of-the-art PACS technology, a unique, efficient workflow system,
carrier-grade telecommunications infrastructure and the Internet to provide
the fastest turnaround times in the industry for diagnostic imaging reads.
FRG is focused on serving non-university affiliated health care
institutions, with emphasis on consolidating the fragmented small-to-medium
hospital segment. It seeks multi-year exclusive contracts for daytime and
7/24/365 radiology full service bureaus. The Group's administrative office,
data processing and reading center is located at Three Gateway Center, in
downtown Pittsburgh, where board-certified radiologists are available 24
hours a day. For more information, please visit http://ww
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