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Prof. Arman Rahmim

Specialty: Medical Physics (Nuclear Medicine)
Academic Title: Professor of Radiology, Physics
and Biomedical Engineering
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia,Canada

Dr. Rahmim is Professor of Radiology, Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of
British Columbia (UBC), as well as Distinguished Scientist and Provincial Medical Imaging

Physicist at BC Cancer. He received his MSc in condensed matter physics and PhD in
medical imaging physics at UBC. Following doctoral studies, he was recruited by Johns Hopkins
University (JHU), leading the high resolution brain PET imaging physics program and pursuing
research at the JHU Departments of Radiology and Electrical Engineering. In 2018, he was
recruited back to Vancouver, where he pursues research in molecular imaging & therapy. He has
published a book, and over 180 journal articles and 380 conference proceeding papers/abstracts,
and delivered more than 120 invited lectures worldwide. He has participated as principal

investigator or co-investigator on a range of grants towards quantitative imaging and personalized
therapies. Dr. Rahmim was awarded the John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award by the American
Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in 2016, the Presidential Distinguished Service
Award by SNMMI in 2022 for significant contributions to the field of nuclear medicine &
molecular imaging, was Vice President (2017-18) and President (2018-19) of the Physics,
Instrumentation and Data Sciences Council (PIDSC) of the Society of Nuclear Medicine &
Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), and is Chair of the SNMMI Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task
Force (2020-) as well as the SNMMI Dosimetry-AI working group (2022-).

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