Gary Ulaner, MD, PhD

James & Pamela Muzzy Endowed Chair of Molecular Imaging and Therapy at Hoag Family Cancer Institute, Professor of Radiology and Translational Genomics, University of Southern California

Dr. Ulaner is a recognized expert in the use of targeted imaging to help direct focused cancer therapies; he is dual-board certified in radiology and nuclear medicine. He completed his medical degree and Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, an internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and his Radiology and Nuclear Medicine residencies at the University of Southern California. Before joining Hoag, he served as the PET/CT expert on the Breast Cancer and Myeloma Disease Management Teams of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Today, Dr. Ulaner leads several National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trials in molecular imaging and therapeutics. Dr. Ulaner has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, has given more than 200 national and international presentations and wrote a textbook on the fundamentals of oncologic PET/CT.