Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, MPH, MBA, MSL, FACNM, FSNMMI
Professor of Radiology, Urology, and Biomedical Engineering (Tenured)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Past President, American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM)
Past President, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
President, SNMMI Therapy Center of Excellence
Chair, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Advisory Committee on Medical Uses of Isotopes (NRC-ACMUI)
Director, American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM)
Distinguished Investigator, Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research


Dr. Jadvar is currently a tenured Professor of Radiology in the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM), at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA. He has joint appointments as Professor of Urology, KSOM, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and is a full member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the past president and fellow of both the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). He currently serves as the president of the SNMMI Therapy Center of Excellence.

Dr. Jadvar immigrated to the United States in 1978 after completing his education at Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran. He received the BS degree in chemical engineering from Iowa State University, Ames (1982), MS in biomedical engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison (1984), MS in computer engineering (1986) and PhD in bioengineering (1988), both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the MD degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (1993), Master’s in Public Health (MPH) degree from Harvard University (2005), the Executive Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the USC Marshall School of Business (2007, and Master's in Studies of Law (MSL) from the USC Gould School of Law. He was an intern in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) during 1993-94, a diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine resident at Stanford University, during 1994-98, and a clinical fellow in nuclear oncology and positron emission tomography (PET) with the Harvard Medical School Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine, during 1998-99. He has completed executive educational certificate programs in clinical effectiveness at Harvard Medical School, and in leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also attended summer educational enrichment programs at the University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Cambridge, UK.

He was a Visiting Associate Scientist in Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, during 2001-2006. Dr. Jadvar is on the leadership editorial boards of Journal of Nuclear Medicine (Associate Editor), European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (Associate Editor), Radiology (Consultant to the Editor), Theranostics (Associate Editor), and Clinical Nuclear Medicine (Deputy Editor), and is member of the editorial boards of many other peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals. He is the past recipient of the SNMMI Mark Tetalman Young Investigator Award, the Western Regional SNMMI Distinguished Scientist Award and Distinguished Service Award, the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research Distinguished Investigator Award, the inaugural fellowship in the USC Center for Excellence in Research, the inaugural Prof. Ajit Padhy Oration Award from the World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy (WARMTH), the Prof. RD Lee Oration Award from the Association of Nuclear Physicians of India (ANMPI), the SNMMI PET Center of Excellence Peter Valk Memorial Award, the Best Mentor Awards from both USC and ACNM, the Lifetime Achievement Award from ACNM, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Jadvar has been serving since 2019 as the nuclear medicine physician representative on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Advisory Committee on Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) and was appointed as the Vice Chair of this Committee in 2022, and as Chair in 2024. He was selected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) in 2023.

He has been a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded investigator and serves on multiple NIH review panels (with one term as a chartered member for MEDI study section), and the Department of Defense (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs-Prostate Cancer Research Program, the Department of Energy (DOE) Isotope R&D and Production Program, and the Imaging Technology and Informatics Review Panel of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). He has written 180 peer-reviewed journal articles, published 4 books, 40 book chapters, 9 U.S. and European patents, numerous conference abstracts and full articles, and has had more than 300 invited lecturer and visiting professorships at national and international venues. His research interests include translational molecular imaging research with particular current interest in prostate cancer, theranostics, and radiopharmaceutical therapy.

As of March 15 2024:
Web of Science: 258 publications, 4705 citations (17.85 average citations per item), h-index 36
Google Scholar: 8362 citations, h-index 50, i10 index 127
ORCID: 0000-0002-9455-2484

BOOKS
1. Jadvar H, Parker JA. Clinical PET and PET/CT. Springer-Verlag, Inc., London, UK. 2005. (ISBN 1 85233-838-5)
2. Jadvar H, Jacene H, Graham M (Eds.). Molecular Imaging: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2017. (ISBN 978-1-107-62128-2)
3. Jadvar H, Colletti PM (Eds.). Nuclear Medicine: The Essentials. Wolter-Kluwer, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. 2022. (ISBN-13: 978-1-4963-00645)
4. Gholamrezanejad A, Assadi M, Jadvar H (Eds.). Radiology-Nuclear Medicine Diagnostic Imaging: A Correlative Approach. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Hoboken, NJ. 2023. (ISBN 9781119603610)

PATENTS1.
1. Jadvar H, Arzbaecher RC Artifact Suppressing Apparatus and Method. International Patent #WO/1989/009514, May 10, 1989
2. Metzger WT, Jadvar H. Variable Stiffness Esophageal Catheter. U.S. Patent #4,930,521, June 5, 1990.
3. Jadvar H, Metzger WT. Multiple Electrode Affixable Sheet. European Patent #EP381816A2, August 16, 1990
4. Jadvar H, Metzger WT. Multiple Electrode Affixable Sheet. European Patent #EP381816A2, November 7, 1990
5. Jadvar H, Arzbaecher RC. Method and Apparatus for Detection of Posterior Ischemia. U.S. Patent #5,010,888, April 30, 1991.
6. Jadvar H, Metzger WT. Multiple Electrode Affixable Sheet. U.S. Patent #5,069,215, December 3, 1991.
7. Metzger WT, Jadvar H. Variable Stiffness Esophageal Catheter. European Patent #90905336.5, January 21, 1992.
8. Jadvar H, Metzger WT. Multiple Electrode Affixable Sheet. U.S. Patent #5,109,851, May 5, 1992.
9. Metzger WT, Jadvar H. Expandable Esophageal Catheter. U.S. Patent #5,117,828, June 2, 1992.