Georges El Fakhri
Position
Former Director, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging
Former Director, Massachusetts General Hospital PET Core
Former Co-Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (Research)
Former Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Education
- 1994, M.Eng. Ecole Centrale, France
- 1994, M.S. Engineering University of Texas, Austin, TX
- 1995, M.S. (Biomedical Engineering) University of Paris XI, France
- 1998, Ph.D. (Medical Physics) University of Paris XI, France
- 1999, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School
Contact Info
White 427
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Email:
ELFAKHRI.GEORGES@MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Phone:1-617-726-9640
Biosketch
See Harvard Catalyst for publications
Dr. El Fakhri has recently made a transition to Director of the Yale PET Center, and no longer serves as Director of the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging.
Dr. Georges El Fakhri was the founding Director of the MGH Gordon PET Core,
Gordon Center, and the Postgraduate Training Program in Medical Imaging (PTPMI).
He served as Co-Director of NMMI Division at MGH and of Physics and
Instrumentation in the Harvard Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine.
He was a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
His research interests include:
- Quantitative Methods in PET-CT and SPECT-CT
- Image Generation and Clinical task-based Image Assessment
- Quantitative Simultaneous PET-MR
- PET-CT and SPECT Instrumentation
- Monitoring Radiotherapy with PET
- Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Physiological Processes
Awards and Honors
- 2020 AIMBE Fellow
- 2020 IAMBE Fellow
- 2019 SNMMI Hoffman Award
- 2018 SNMMI Fellow
- 2016 IEEE Fellow
- 2015 Partners MGH-BWH Radiology Collaborative Research Award
- 2015 Brain Gain Fund Award, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik
- 2014 Dana Foundation Brain and Immuno-Imaging Award
- 2013 Mark Tetalman Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine
- 2013 Keynote speaker, 2009 USEK Commencement Lecture, Holy Spirit University, School of Medicine
- 2013 Partners in Excellence Award as Director of the Cyclotron Facility at MGH
- 2012 Awardee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) training Innovation Program (Three awards nationally in the U.S.)
- 2011 Harvard-Australia Visiting Professor
- 2009 IEEE Senior Member
- 2005 NAKFI Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Distinguished Investigator Award, Academy of Radiology Research
- 2004 Honorary Professor, Medical Radiation Sciences, University of Sydney