PET Imaging Center : Physician's Resources

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- Cervical And Ovarian Cancer
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- Head And Neck Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Thyroid Cancer
- Musculoskeletal Tumors
- Genitourinary Tumors
- Malignant Primary Brain Tumors
- Other Malignancies

Physician's Resources - Personnel

David Lilien, MD

Job Title:	Medical Director
Education:	BA Biochemistry University of California, Berkley 1959 MD University of Southern California 1965
Fellowships:
	National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health Human Tumor Cell Biology Branch 1967-1969 USC Medical Center USPHS Traineeship in Hematology, 1970 UCLA Center for the Health Sciences USPHS Traineeship in Nuclear Medicine.
Academic Appointments:
	Assistant in Medicine, Instructor in Medicine – USC 1969-1970 Adjunct Instructor in Radiologic Sciences – UCLA 1972 Assistant Professor of Radiology – University of Arizona – 1972-1975 Assistant/Associate Professor of Radiology – UCSF – 1975-1986 Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology – UC-Davis – 1985-1986 Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology – USC – 1993-199 Associate Professor of Radiology – UC-Irvine – 1995-1997 Clinical Professor of Radiology – LSUHSC – 1997-Present
E-mail:	dlilien@biomed.org

John Sunderland, Ph.D. MBA

Job Title:	Vice President for PET Operations
Responsibilities:	Oversight for all aspects of
	PET Imaging Operation Cyclotron and PET Chemistry Operation Commercial PET Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing and Distribution PET Research
Education:
	BA Physics Williams College 1981 MS Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1986 Ph.D. Medical Physics, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison 1990 MBA Frost School of Business, Centenary College, 2002
Professional Experience:
	Assistant/Associate Professor of Radiology and Physics, Technical Director of the Center for Metabolic Imaging, Creighton University – 1990-1995 Medical Physicist/Technical Director/Radiation Safety Officer/ Vice President PET Operations, Biomedical Research Foundation – Shreveport, LA 1995-Present. PET Consultant – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/Department of Energy – Russian Nuclear Cities Initiative. 2003-Present
Research Interests:
	Cyclotron targetry, image processing, Clinical and pre-clinical development of promising PET radiopharmaceuticals
E-mail:	jsund@biomed.org

Kris Engel

Job Title:	PET Administrative Manager
Professional Expreience:
	Kris' background includes 20 years in the medical field with expertise in multi-center operations, billing, collections and medical software analysis and implementation.
Responsibilities:
	She joined the Foundation's PET staff in 1995 and is responsible for oversight of all administrative staff and operations, including scheduling, billing, collections, and HIPAA compliance.
E-Mail:	kengel@biomed.org

Job Title:	Associate Medical Director
Education:
	MBBS, B.J. Medical College, Pune, India 1999 MS Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of Virginia, 2001 Nuclear Medicine, Hosp. of Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2005
Research Interests:
	PET in oncology, New radiopharmaceuticals for PET, cardio-vascular PET, Inflammation Imaging with PET