Department of Nuclear Medicine School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 105 Parker Hall (Directions) 3435 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14214-3007 Phone: (716) 838-5889 Fax: (716) 838-4918

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Welcome to the University at Buffalo (UB) Department of Nuclear Medicine home page. Founded in 1972 as a separate department of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the objectives of the Department of Nuclear Medicine are to support all aspects of Nuclear Medicine including Education, Research, and Clinical Service. The Department has a rich history in the specialization of Nuclear Medicine with two founders of The American Board of Nuclear Medicine, two past presidents of The Society of Nuclear Medicine, and numerous innovative research publications which have moved the specialty and use of the discipline forward. Nuclear Medicine is an integral part of patient care, offering safe, painless, and cost-effective techniques to image the body and provides diagnosis, management, treatment, and prevention of disease which is helpful to a broad span of medical specialties, from pediatrics to cardiology to psychiatry. There are nearly one hundred different Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures available and not a major organ system which is not imaged by Nuclear Medicine. The UB Department of Nuclear Medicine has long been committed to providing the best in Nuclear Medicine Services to the community while maintaining high-quality training programs and providing educational, research and practice opportunities to physicians, pharmacists, physicists, medical students, residents, fellows, and technologists interested in the Nuclear Medicine Sciences. Excellence in Nuclear Medicine training depends upon adequate clinical material, faculty with a broad representation of the discipline who are committed to teaching, and colleagues eager to learn and teach. The Department comprises six divisions all actively engaged in teaching, patient care, and/or research. The divisions function in unison as a Department under the guidance and leadership of the Department Chairman with the able assistance and support of the Vice Chairman and each of the Division Heads. The Department of Nuclear Medicine provides services to the Western New York community on several fronts. University Nuclear Medicine, Inc. is a clinical practice supported by seven full time and volunteer faculty. Central Radiopharmaceutical Services, Inc., provides traditional Nuclear Medicine and PET radiopharmaceuticals to over 25 hospitals and outpatient sites. The Department also provides Medical Physics and Radiation Safety services to over 35 hospitals and clinics in the Western New York area. The Department also has numerous inter- and multidisciplinary research projects involving positron emission tomography (PET), medical physics, and pharmacology. PET research is supported by a 30 MeV cyclotron, a radiochemistry laboratory, and three PET scanners. The Department has the rare advantage of having several Nuclear Medicine and positron emission tomography training sites staffed by certified and credentialed faculty. The faculty are very capable diagnosticians and many are prolific researchers. More than thirty faculty members engage in the educational, research, and clinical activities in Nuclear Medicine at the University's Parker Hall facility on the South Campus and at its affiliated hospital and outpatient clinical sites. Offering a wide range of practice sites for training gives graduates from our programs a well rounded experience in their specialty and our graduates can easily demonstrate their value to the health care community. The Department of Nuclear Medicine provides several education programs in Nuclear Medicine. The Nuclear Medicine Residency Program, accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the American Medical Association, trains physicians in the discipline of Nuclear Medicine. It is the Program's goal to equip trainees with an excellence in Nuclear Medicine. The Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Program provides specialized training in specific areas of Nuclear Medicine such as oncology, cardiology, and positron emission tomography imaging. The Nuclear Pharmacy Practice/Medical Imaging Residency Program prepares graduate pharmacists in the practice of Nuclear Pharmacy by providing radioisotope and radiopharmaceutical handling experience and clinical experience in the role of imaging techniques and interpretations of medical imaging. The Nuclear Medicine Technology Program, co-sponsored with the University's School of Health Related Professions Department of Biotechnical, Clinical, and Laboratory Sciences and supported by the Department of Nuclear Medicine, leads undergraduate students towards a Bachelors Degree in Nuclear Medicine Technology. The UB Department of Nuclear Medicine is widely recognized as a leading comprehensive imaging department that balances research and academics with quality patient care and community services. We draw upon the unique strengths and resources that our faculty and each training site have to offer and our faculty mix supports the Department's commitment to training individuals who are competent in the science of Nuclear Medicine.