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Department of Radiology Heersink School of Medicine

Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics

The Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics (MI&T) performs the full range of nuclear medicine studies and therapies.

Studies and therapies include:

  1. PET/CT and PET/MRI for oncologic, neurologic, and cardiovascular imaging
  2. Planar and SPECT/CT for diagnosis and therapy monitoring
  3. Radiopharmaceutical therapies in including radioactive iodide, [177Lu]DOTATATE, [177Lu]PSMA-617, and 223RaCl2
  4. Clinical trials with novel SPECT and PET tracers and investigational cancer therapies using beta- and alpha-emitting radiopharmaceuticals

The MI&T Division currently consists of 10 full and part-time imaging physicians and a PhD physicist. Our faculty hold leadership positions in national professional and scientific societies, serve on the editorial boards of multiple journals, and are frequent speakers at national and international scientific and educational meetings. We work closely with the UAB Cyclotron Facility, which produces PET tracers for routine clinical use as well as investigational agents for molecular imaging research. We collaborate within the Department of Radiology, including the PhD faculty in the Division of Advanced Medical Imaging Research (AMIR) and outside of Radiology, including with Hematology-Oncology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Surgery, and Endocrinology. We offer pathways for nuclear medicine training including a traditional 3-year nuclear medicine residency, a traditional 1-year fellowship after diagnostic radiology residency, and an integrated diagnostic radiology-nuclear medicine pathway that allows diagnostic radiology residents to spend the 4th year of their radiology residency for training in nuclear medicine which makes them board-eligible for the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) upon completion of their diagnostic radiology residency.

For questions or more information about the Division of MI&T at UAB, please contact the division director, Jonathan McConathy, MD, PhD (jmcconathy@uabmc.edu), or the MI&T administrative associate, Angela Grant (agrant@uabmc.edu).