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Office
3400 Spruce Street
Ground Floor Dulles
Philadelphia, PA 19104Phone+1 215-662-3005Fax+1 215-662-7011- Is this information wrong?
Education & Training
University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 1971 - 1973
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterResidency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 1970 - 1971- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology, 1969 - 1970
Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1968 - 1969
Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkResidency, Internal Medicine, 1967 - 1968
Albert Einstein Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1966 - 1967
Tehran University of Medical Sciences School of MedicineClass of 1964
Certifications & Licensure
PA State Medical License 1972 - 2024- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
Clinical Trials
- Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis (PIOPED) Start of enrollment: 1983 Sep 01
- FDG-PET Imaging in Painful Joint Prosthesis Start of enrollment: 2001 Mar 01
- FDG-PET Imaging in Complicated Diabetic Foot Start of enrollment: 2002 Oct 01
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Role of PET/CT in diagnosing and monitoring disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis: a review.Singh, S., Bhandari, S., Raynor, W., Hess, S., Werner, T., Revheim, M., Bhandari, S., Bhandari, S., Singh, R., Alavi, A.> ;Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 2024 Mar 1
- Revision of Alzheimer's diagnostic criteria or relocation of the Potemkin village.Perry, G., Perry, G., Perry, G., Perry, G., Perry, G., Poul F Høilund-Carlsen, Abass Alavi, Jorge R Barrio, Rudolph J Castellani, Tommaso Costa, Karl Herrup, Kasper P ...> ;Ageing Research Reviews. 2024 Jan 1
- 2 citationsTotal-body PET/CT or LAFOV PET/CT? Axial field-of-view clinical classification.Clemens Mingels, Federico Caobelli, Abass Alavi, Christos Sachpekidis, Meiyun Wang, Hande Nalbant, Austin R Pantel, Hongcheng Shi, Axel Rominger, Lorenzo Nardo> ;European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2024 Mar 1
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Journal Articles
- Original Research Chronic Stress-Related Neural Activity Associates with Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in Psoriasis: A Prospective Cohort StudyRoger K Pitman, Ahmed Tawakol, Abass Alavi, Marcus Y Chen, Nehal N Mehta, Justin A Rodante, Jonathan H Chung, Joel M Gelfand, ScienceDirect
- Effect of Blood Glucose Level on Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) in 18F- FDG PET-Scan: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 20,807 Individual SUV MeasurementsAbass Alavi, Sun K Yi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- PET/CT Versus Standard Imaging for Prediction of Survival in Patients with Recurrent Head and Neck Squamous Cell CarcinomaAbass Alavi, MD, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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Authored Content
- Futility of Attempts to Detect and Quantify Beta Cells by PET Imaging in the Pancreas: Why It Is Time to Abandon the ApproachJune 2018
Press Mentions
- Assessment of Atherosclerosis in Multiple Myeloma and Smoldering Myeloma Patients Using 18F- Sodium Fluoride PET/CTJanuary 3rd, 2021
Main Line Neurologist Studies the Intersection of Faith and ScienceDecember 16th, 2020
Cancer SymposiumOctober 29th, 2019- Join now to see all
Hospital Affiliations
Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
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