Abass Alavi

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Abass Alavi (* 1938 in Tabriz ) is an Iranian-American neurologist and radiologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1976 he made the first positron emission tomography image of the human brain.

Life

Alavi studied medicine in Tehran with his doctorate in 1964. From 1966 he was an internship at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and in 1968 he was resident in internal medicine at the VA (Veterans Administration) Medical Center and in 1969 a fellow in hematology and oncology at the university hospital from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1970 he completed a residency in radiology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. From 1971 he was at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, initially as a fellow in nuclear medicine. There he worked under David Kuhl with tomographic techniques ( single photon emission computed tomography , SPECT). After fluorodeoxyglucose with radioactive fluorine 18 (a radioactive glucose analogue) was available in the group of Alfred P. Wolf at Brookhaven National Laboratory , Alavi used the substance in August 1976 for the first recording of human brain activity with positron emission tomography (PET ).

In 1973 he became an instructor in radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1974 Assistant Professor, 1977 Associate Professor and 1982 Professor. From 1979 to 2006 he was head of nuclear medicine and from 1991 to 2006 medical director of the Positron Emission Tomography Center, of which he was co-director from 1979 to 1991.

He has multiple honorary doctorates (Bologna, Shiraz University, Tabriz University, Gdansk), received the Georg Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award in 2004 and the Benedict Cassen Prize in 2012.

First full body scan using radiolabelled fluorodeoxyglucose

literature

  • Høilund-Carlsen Abass Alavi: A giant in Nuclear Medicine turns 80 and is still going strong! . In: Hell.J. Nucl. Med. , Volume 21, 2018, pp. 85-87, PMID 29550853 .

Web links

  • Website at the University of Pennsylvania

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hevesy Award 2004. SNM News, July 6, 2004, Web Archive
personal data
SURNAME Alavi, Abass
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian-American medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabriz