Dr. Young is a graduate of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Des Moines, Iowa. He continued his medical training at the Pensacola Education Program, Pensacola, FL as an intern and Radiology Residency at University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, Iowa, where he also completed a fellowship in Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Young then completed a breast imaging fellowship at the Breast Cancer Detection Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

Certified by the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Radiology and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine in Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Young holds medical licensures in Illinois and Iowa. He is a member of many professional societies such as the American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, Peoria Medical Society, American Medical Association, the Illinois Medical Society, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Academy of Molecular Imaging. Dr. Young is a fellow of the American College of Radiology.

Dr. Young’s areas of practice include Oncologic and Women’s Imaging. Dr. Young’s areas of research include the use of PET scanning in cancer and the role of diet in breast cancer. Dr. Young has been a funded investigator for the National Cancer Institute as well as research grants from General Electric, Philips and Siemens Medical Corporations. Dr. Young has been an invited speaker at local, national and international meetings. He currently trains physicians from around the world in PET Scanning in a training program at Methodist Medical Center. He currently is the Medical Director of the Department of Medical Imaging and Downstate Clinical PET Center at Methodist Medical Center, Peoria, IL.