Hossein Jadvar, MD

Dr. Hossein Jadvar is a tenured Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Radiology Research at USC with a joint faculty appointment as Visiting Associate in Bioengineering at Caltech. He received his PhD in bioengineering from University of Michigan, MD degree from University of Chicago, MPH from Harvard, and Executive MBA from USC. His completed an internship in internal medicine at UCSF, residency in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at Stanford, and fellowship in PET at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified by American Board of Nuclear Medicine and the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology. He holds eight patents and is a Fellow of the American College of Nuclear Medicine, American College of Nuclear Physicians and the USC Center for Excellence in Research. He is charter member of the NIH Medical Imaging (MEDI) review panel, and is on editorial boards of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Imaging and Biology, and American Journal of Roentgenology. He is an NIH-funded investigator and has co-authored a book entitled Clinical PET and PET-CT. He is also the President of the Nuclear Medicine Section of the Los Angeles Radiological Society and on the Board of Directors of the Society of Nuclear Medicine PET Center of Excellence. His research interests include applications of PET and PET-CT in outcome research and in translational molecular imaging research in cancer with particular current interest on prostate cancer.