Professor Abass Alavi, Distinguished Medical Scientist.

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  • Hooshang Mohammadi
چکیده

Dr. Abass Alavi was born on March 15, 1938 in Tabriz, a city in Eastern Azerbaijan, north west province of Iran. After graduating from high school in 1957, he moved to Tehran and enrolled at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Following graduation from the medical school in 1964, and as part of the military obligation, he served in small communities in the outskirts of Tehran. In 1966, he traveled to the United States to further his medical education by pursuing advanced degrees in medicine. Abass Alavi holds the position of Professor of Radiology and Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) Department of Radiology. In the US, he received training in internal medicine, hematology, diagnostic radiology, and nuclear medicine (molecular Imaging). As a nuclear medicine fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (PENN) in the early 1970s, Dr. Alavi worked on pioneering research in tomographic imaging of brain tumors and lymphoma. During this period, he collaborated with Drs. David Kuhl and Martin Reivich in the development of [18 widely utilized PET radiotracer in both research and clinical set-

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of Iranian medicine

دوره 18 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015