Prof. Abass Alavi

Centre for the Study of Aging

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor

Email: abass.alavi@uphs.upenn.edu

Qualifications

1982-present Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Radiology

1982-present Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Neurology (secondary appt.)

1987-2000 Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Psychiatry

1977-1982 Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Radiology

1972-1982 Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Neurology (secondary appt.)

1974-1977 Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Radiology

1973-1974 Instructor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Radiology

Publications (Selected)

1. Thorsen, M. E., Singh, S. B., Rewers, K., Werner, T. J., Alavi, A., & Hess, S. (2024). Molecular Imaging Techniques in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Infectious Diseases. Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases, 16(3), 73-88.
2. Wang, J., Serafini, A., Kuker, R., Ayubcha, C., Cohen, G., Nadel, H., ... & Yu, J. Q. (2025). The State-of-the-Art PET Tracers in Glioblastoma and High-grade Gliomas and Implications for Theranostics. PET clinics, 20(1), 147-164.
3. Singh, S. B., Tiwari, A., Katta, M. R., Kafle, R., Ayubcha, C., Patel, K. H., ... & Revheim, M. E. (2024). The utility of PET imaging in depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1322118.
4. Teichner, E. M., Subtirelu, R. C., Patil, S., Al-Daoud, O., Parikh, C., Nguyen, L., ... & Alavi, A. (2024). Bilateral Carotid Calcification Correlates with Regional Cerebral Glucose Metabolism: Insights from PET/CT Imaging of Patients with Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Journal of Vascular Diseases, 3(2), 112-126.
5. Evanson, D., Griffin, M., O’Reilly, S. E., Johnson, T., Werner, T., Kothekar, E., ... & Alavi, A. (2024). Comparative assessment of radiation therapy–induced vasculitis using [18F] FDG-PET/CT in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with proton versus photon radiotherapy. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 51(5), 1444-1450.
6. Høilund-Carlsen, P. F., Alavi, A., Castellani, R. J., Neve, R. L., Perry, G., Revheim, M. E., & Barrio, J. R. (2024). Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis and antibody therapy: melting glaciers?. International journal of molecular sciences, 25(7), 3892.
7. Mingels, C., Caobelli, F., Alavi, A., Sachpekidis, C., Wang, M., Nalbant, H., ... & Nardo, L. (2024). Total-body PET/CT or LAFOV PET/CT? Axial field-of-view clinical classification. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 51(4), 951-953.
8. Afsahi, A. M., Norbash, A. M., Syed, S. F., Sedaghat, M., Afsahi, G., Shahidi, R., ... & Sedaghat, S. (2023). Brain MRI findings in neurologically symptomatic COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Neurology, 270(11), 5131-5154.
9. Patil, S., Teichner, E. M., Subtirelu, R. C., Parikh, C., Al-Daoud, O., Ismoilov, M., ... & Alavi, A. (2023). Bilateral carotid artery molecular calcification assessed by [18F] Fluoride PET/CT: correlation with cardiovascular and thromboembolic risk factors. Life, 13(10), 2070.
10. Subtirelu, R. C., Teichner, E. M., Su, Y., Al-Daoud, O., Patel, M., Patil, S., ... & Alavi, A. (2023). Aging and cerebral glucose metabolism: 18F-FDG-PET/CT reveals distinct global and regional metabolic changes in healthy patients. Life, 13(10), 2044.
11. Puri, T., Frost, M. L., Moore, A. E., Choudhury, A., Vinjamuri, S., Mahajan, A., ... & Blake, G. M. (2023). Utility of a simplified [18F] sodium fluoride PET imaging method to quantify bone metabolic flux for a wide range of clinical applications. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14, 1236881.
12. Høilund-Carlsen, P. F., Revheim, M. E., Costa, T., Alavi, A., Kepp, K. P., Sensi, S. L., ... & Vissel, B. (2023). Passive Alzheimer’s immunotherapy: A promising or uncertain option?. Ageing research reviews, 90, 101996.
13. Ayubcha, C., Singh, S. B., Patel, K. H., Rahmim, A., Hasan, J., Liu, L., ... & Alavi, A. (2023). Machine learning in the positron emission tomography imaging of Alzheimer’s disease. Nuclear Medicine Communications, 44(9), 751-766.
14. Teichner, E. M., Subtirelu, R. C., Ashok, A. B., Su, Y., Anderson, V. A., Writer, M., ... & Revheim, M. E. (2023). The Emerging Role of NaF-PET/CT in Detecting Vascular Microcalcification in the Pathogenesis of Neurological Dysfunction. Journal of Vascular Diseases, 2(3), 310-316.
15. Kepp, K. P., Sensi, S. L., Johnsen, K. B., Barrio, J. R., Høilund-Carlsen, P. F., Neve, R. L., ... & Espay, A. J. (2023). The anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody lecanemab: 16 cautionary notes. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 94(2), 497-507.
16. Høilund-Carlsen, P. F., Revheim, M. E., Costa, T., Kepp, K. P., Castellani, R. J., Perry, G., ... & Barrio, J. R. (2023). FDG-PET versus amyloid-PET imaging for diagnosis and response evaluation in Alzheimer’s disease: benefits and pitfalls. Diagnostics, 13(13), 2254.
17. Shrestha, B., Singh, S., Raynor, W., Niazi, S., Ahmed, M., Ismoilov, M., ... & Alavi, A. (2023). Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT to evaluate the effects of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy on lymph node involvement in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
18. Motamedi, N., Revheim, M. E., Werner, T., Alavi, A., Torigian, D., & Raynor, W. (2023). PET imaging in pediatric oncology: A Narrative Review.
19. McDonald, E. O., Amanullah, A. A., Park, P. S. U., Song, W., Werner, T. J., Alavi, A., & Revheim, M. E. (2023). The role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in primary cutaneous lymphoma: An educational review. Annals of Nuclear Medicine, 37(6), 328-348.
20. Triumbari, E. K. A., Rufini, V., Mingels, C., Rominger, A., Alavi, A., Fanfani, F., ... & Nardo, L. (2023). Long axial field-of-view PET/CT could answer unmet needs in gynecological cancers. Cancers, 15(9), 2407.

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