Editorial positions

Awards and honours

Recipient of 2017 IBA-Europhysics Prize given by the European Physical Society (EPS) for outstanding contributions to Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods and Nuclear Researches in Medicine. The prize will be awarded at the 4th European Nuclear Physics Conference, September 2-7, 2018, to be held in Bologna (Italy).
IEEE fellow "for contributions to quantitative multimodality molecular imaging", since 2018.
Recipient of 2015 Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Award given by the British Institute of Radiology. The prize was awarded at the annnual congress of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR, November 4-5, 2015, held in London (UK).
Best of British Journal of Radiology (BJR) 2014 ‒ Becker M and Zaidi H "Imaging in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: the potential role of PET/MRI" Br J Radiol Vol. 87, No. 1036, pp 20130677 (2014).
Frequently cited paper 2014 ‒ Akbarzadeh A, Ay MR, A. Ahmadian A, Riahi Alam N, and Zaidi H Ann Nucl Med Vol. 27, No. 2, pp 152-162 (2013).
Recipient of 2013 Vikram Sarabhai Ditinguished Oration Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine (India). The prize will be awarded at the SNMI annual meeting, December 12-15, 2013, held in Mumbai (India).
Recipient of 2013 John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award given by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) to recognize outstanding scientific achievements in medical physics for a young scientist. The prize was awarded at the 55th AAPM Annual Meeting, August 4-8, 2013, held in Indianapolis (IN, USA).
Recipient of Appreciation Award given by the Middle East Federation of Organizations of Medical Physics (MEFOMP) for contribution and dedicated support of Medical Physics in the Middle East region.
Recipient of 2010 Kuwait Prize (known as the Middle Eastern Nobel Prize) in Applied Sciences for outstanding contributions to “Biomedical Technology” awarded by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. The prize (100’000$, gold medal, KFAS shield and certificate of recognition) was awarded by his Highness the Emir of Kuwait at a ceremony held in Kuwait City on 21st December 2011.
Read about it in the Newspaper: Tribune de Genève, El-Moudjahid, le Journal de l'UniGe, Campus
Most cited PMB paper (2011-2013) Zaidi H et al. "PET performance of the Ingenuity TF PET-MR: a whole body PET-MRI system" Phys Med Biol Vol. 56, No. 10, pp 3091-3106 (2011).
Zaidi H and Del Guerra A "An outlook on future designs of hybrid PET-MRI systems" Med Phys Vol. 38, No. 10, pp 5667–5689 (2011) on cover page of Medical Physics
Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), 2009 Council Young Investigator Awards, Nuclear Oncology Council, 2nd place.
Recipient of 2008 Varian Prize of Appreciation awarded by the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics for the best published paper impacting Radiation Oncology.The prize was awarded at Annual meeting of SGSMP, 6-7 November 2008, Chur, Switzerland.
Recipient of the prestigious 2007 Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics given by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) for “outstanding accomplishments in the application of biological physics to the field of medical imaging”. The prize was awarded at the 6th International Conference on Biological Physics, Montevideo, Uruguay, 27-31 August 2007
Best doctoral thesis of the Medical School in Neuroscience, Dr Marie-Louise Montandon
IEEE Senior member since 2005.
Co-recipient of the 2005 Marti Prize awarded by the Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospital
Recipient of the 2004 Mark Tetalman Memorial award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine (US) based on research accomplishments, teaching, clinical service, administration; service to the Society and a commitment to academic nuclear medicine.
Recipient of 2003 Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award given by the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee (NMISTC) to a young investigator in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions to the field of medical imaging science, thus joining a very prestigious group of previous recipients. The prize was awarded at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Portland (Oregon) 19-25 October 2003.
Recipient of 2003 Varian Prize awarded by the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics for the best published paper impacting Radiation Oncology.
Read official HUG notifications about these awards! Pulsation Janvier 2004 & Pulsation Juin 2004. and Pulsation September 2007.
Distinguished Associate Editor, Medical Physics (2000-2001), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
h-index = 39 (Web of Science), 52 (Google scholar)
>10’100+ citations (Google scholar)

Journal editorial and review boards

Founding Editor-in-Chief (Scientific), The British Journal of Radiology (BJR)|Open
Senior Editor, The British Journal of Radiology
Guest Editor, British Journal of Radiology, Special issue on “Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation”, Vol. 91, No. 1081, 2018.
Guest Editor with Drew Torigian, Andreas Kjaer & Abass Alavi, PET Clinics, Special issue on “Clinical applications of PET/MRI”, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2016.
Guest Editor, PET Clinics, Special issue on “PET/MRI: Advances in instrumentation and quantitative procedures”, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2016.
Guest Editor with Abass Alavi, Clinical and Translational Imaging, Special issue on “Trends in PET Quantification: clinical applications”, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2014.
Guest Editor with Abass Alavi, Clinical and Translational Imaging, Special issue on “Trends in PET Quantification: methodological issues”, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2014.
Guest Editor with Thomas Kwee, PET Clinics, Special issue on “Evolving medical imaging techniques”, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2013.
Guest Editor with Kevin Teo, PET Clinics, Special issue on “Respiratory and Cardiac Gating in PET Imaging”, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2013.
Guest Editor with Benjamin M. W. Tsui of a special issue of The Proceedings of the IEEE on Computational Anthropomorphic Anatomical Models
Guest Editor with Abass Alavi, PET Clinics Special issue on PET Instrumentation and Novel Quantitative Techniques, Vol. 2, No. 2; 2007.
Guest Editor, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Special issue on Medical Image Segmentation, 2006
Member of the Editorial Board, Medical Physics Official Journal of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
Member of the Editorial Board, Nuclear Medicine Communications
Member of the Editorial Board, Clinical and Translational Imaging
Member of the Editorial Board, World Journal of Radiology
Member (2003-2013) of the Editorial Board, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Member of the Editorial Board, American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Member of the Editorial Board, Cancer Translational Medicine (CTM)
Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Molecular Imaging
Member of the Editorial Board, Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal
Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Tomography & Simulation Member of the Editorial Board, The Open Medical Imaging Journal
Member of the Editorial Board, Smart Materials and Coatings Technology
Member of the Editorial Board (2007-2015) , The Open Neuroimaging Journal
Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Consumer Health Informatics
Member of the Editorial Board, Recent Patents and topics on Imaging
Member of the Editorial Board, Medical Physics Journal
Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Nano Science and Engineering (IJNSE)
Member of the Editorial Board, Advances in Nano Research (ANR)
Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology (IJMPCERO)
Member of the Editorial Board, Brain Imaging Methods, Frontiers in Neuroscience and Neurology
Member of the Editorial Board, Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies
Member of the Editorial Board, Clinical Medical Image Library
Associate Editor, International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Associate Editor, Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Editor, Journal of Biomedical Engineering & Medical Imaging
Scientific Reviewer, Radiology
Scientific Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Scientific Reviewer, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging
Scientific Reviewer, Physics in Medicine and Biology
Scientific Reviewer, NeuroImage
Scientific Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Scientific Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Scientific reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Scientific reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Scientific reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Scientific Reviewer, Journal of Cerebral Blow Flow and Metabolism
Scientific Reviewer, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics
Scientific reviewer, PLOS ONE
Scientific reviewer, Molecular Imaging and Biology
Scientific reviewer, Inverse Problems
Scientific Reviewer, European Radiology
Scientific Reviewer, Academic Radiology
Scientific reviewer, Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine
Scientific reviewer, Future Neurology
Scientific reviewer, Imaging in Medicine
Scientific reviewer, IET Image Processing
Scientific reviewer, Image and Video Processing
Scientific reviewer, Nanomedicine
Scientific reviewer, Information Fusion
Scientific reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Medicine
Scientific reviewer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Scientific reviewer, Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics
Scientific reviewer, Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik (Journal of Medical Physics)
Scientific reviewer, Radiotherapy & Oncology
Scientific Reviewer, Radiation Oncology
Scientific reviewer, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
Scientific reviewer, Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals
Scientific reviewer, Neuroinformatics
Scientific Reviewer, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS)
Scientific reviewer, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
Scientific Reviewer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
Scientific reviewer, Translational Oncology
Scientific reviewer, Computers in Biology and Medicine
Scientific reviewer, Journal of Instrumentation
Scientific reviewer, Measurement Science and Technology
Scientific Reviewer, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Scientific Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Scientific Reviewer, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
Scientific reviewer, Neural Computing & Applications
Scientific Reviewer, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Scientific reviewer, Machine Vision and Applications
Scientific Reviewer, Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment
Scientific Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
Scientific Reviewer, Radiation Physics and chemistry
Scientific Reviewer, Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Scientific Reviewer, X-ray Spectrometry
Scientific Reviewer, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Scientific Reviewer, BMC Medical Imaging
Scientific Reviewer, BMC Nuclear Medicine
Scientific Reviewer, BMC Neurology
Scientific reviewer, Nuclear Science and Techniques
Scientific reviewer, Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering
Scientific reviewer, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Scientific reviewer, Computer Physics Communications
Scientific reviewer, Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Scientific Reviewer, Drug Discovery Today (Pharmaceutical Science & Technology)
Scientific reviewer, Neurosurgery
Scientific reviewer, Computers & Electrical Engineering
Scientific reviewer, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Scientific Reviewer, Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery
Scientific reviewer of books for Taylor & Francis CRC Press
Scientific reviewer, British Medical Association (BMA) book competition
Scientific reviewer of books, British Medical Association (BMA) book competition
Scientific reviewer, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference
Scientific reviewer, Annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
Scientific reviewer, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI).
Scientific Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
Scientific reviewer, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI).
Scientific reviewer, Annual meeting of the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIG).
Scientific reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
Scientific reviewer, “8th International Workshop on Signal Processing and its Applications (WoSSPA 2008)”, Algiers, Algeria, May 12-15, 2013.
Scientific reviewer, IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2006
Regional Editor, Electronic Medical Physics World
Foreword to the 1999 Edition "NOW AND IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM: 1990S-3000 CE: Assessing Africa's Scholarly Publishing Needs and Industry": A challenge for Africa (RA-GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS & JARP, 1999).

Organisation of scientific conferences and symposia

Member of the Liaison Committee, IV International Conference on Medical Physics, Patras, GREECE (1999) Patras, Greece, 1-4 September 1999.
Member of the International Advisory Committee, World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2000) Chicago, USA, 23-28 July 2000.
Rapporteur, session 9 (Nuclear Medicine Dosimetry) International Symposium on Standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, Invited talk “Monte Carlo techniques in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine”, Vienna, Austria, 25-28 November 2002 (IAEA).
Member of the Organising Committee, 1^st African Regional IRPA Congress, South Africa 5-8 May 2003.
Member of the International Advisory Committee, First International meeting on Applied Physics, Badajoz, Spain 15-18th October 2003.
Chairman, Symposium on new developments in molecular imaging and radiation therapy, Geneva, Switzerland, 30-31 October 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee, Second International Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology (in cooperation with IAEA), Shiraz, Iran, 27-30 April 2004.
Member of the International Scientific Committee, Fifth International Congress of Nuclear oncology, Cesme, Turkey, 1-5 May 2004.
Member of the International Scientific Committee, International Conference on Complex Systems (CISC'2004), Jijel, Algeria, September 6-8 2004.
Chair, Biomedical Track T13, 2nd IEEE-GCC 2004 Conference, Manama, Bahrein, 23-25 November 2004.
Member of the International Advisory Committee, The First UAE International Conference on Biological and Medical Physics, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 27-30 March 2005.
Member of the International Advisory Board, 2nd International Workshop on Radiological Sciences and Applications (IWRSA), 16-18 March, 2005 (IAEA) Vienna, Austria.
Member of the Technical Committee, International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications: ISSPA 2005, ISSPA 2007.
Member of the International Advisory Committee, 3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC´05), Prague, Czech Republic, 20-25 November 2005.
Chair, Instrumentation session, 7th annual congress of the Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine (SSNM), Lausanne, Switzerland 1-3 June 2006.
Member of the International Program Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP), since 2006.
Member, Scientific Committee, The 5th International Workshop on Signal Processing and its Applications (WoSPA 2008), University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, March 18-20, 2008.
Member, Scientific Committee, 16th International Conference of Medical Physics (ICMP-08), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 14-16, 2008.
Track co-chair (Signal Processing Application in Communications), 16th International Conference of Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2008)”, Xiamen, China, Mai 25-27, 2008.
Track co-Chair – nuclear medicine imaging, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2009), Munich, Germany, 7-12 September, 2009.
Member, Scientific Committee, IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2011), Rome, Italy, 22- 24 July 2011.
Member, Scientific Committee, “International Symposium on PET and SPECT in Neurology and Psychiatry”, Groningen, 23-25 April, 2012.
Member, Scientific Committee, “10th Asia Oceania Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (AOFNMB’2012)”, Tehran, Iran, 16-20 May 2012.
Track co-Chair (Dosimetry in Nuclear Medicine), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2012), Beijing, China, May 26-31, 2012.
Member, Scientific Committee, IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2012), Lisbon, Portugal, 17- 23 July 2012.
Co-Chair, Health Science & Biomedical Engineering Theme, Summer University KSU'2012, Khenchela, Algeria, July 7-12 2012.
Member, Scientific Committee, Third International Conference on Image and Signal Processing and their Applications (ISPA’2012, ISPA'2015 & ISPA'2017), Mostaganem, Algeria, since 2012.
Member, Scientific Committee, “2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (iCBEB 2013)”, Wuhan, China, 11-13 October 2013.
Member, Scientific Committee, Second WHO Global Forum on Medical Devices, 22-24 November 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.
Member, Scientific Committee, “3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (iCBEB 2014)”, Beijing, China, 25-28 September 2014.
Member, Scientific Committee, “IEEE International Image Processing, Applications and Systems conference (IPAS’14)”, Hammamat, Tunisia, November 5-7 2014.
Member, Scientific Committee, The International Conference of Engineering Sciences for Biology and Medicine (ESBM 2015), 1-3 Mai 2015, Monastir, Tunisia.
Member, International Advisory Committee, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2015), Toronto, Canada, 7-12 June, 2015.
Member, International Program Committee, "Bioimaging", since 2016.
Member, Steering Committee, International conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP’16), Monastir, Tunisia, 21-24 March 2016.
Director of AAPM International Scientific Exchange Programs (ISEP) Diagnostic Imaging Symposium, Rabat, Morocco, 26-29 March 2016.
Member, Organizing Committee, 2nd Odense spring meeting, Molecular Imaging & DiaPeutics in Cancers and Inflammatory Disorders, 11-13 April 2016, Odense, Denmark.
Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Health Sciences and Medical Technologies (ICHSMT’16, ICHSMT’17), since 2016, Tlemcen, Algeria.
Member, Scientific Committee, The International Conference of Engineering Sciences for Biology and Medicine (ESBM’2017), 4-7 Mai 2017, Sfax, Tunisia.
Director of AAPM International Scientific Exchange Program (ISEP), Radiation Therapy Symposium, 27-30 September 2017, Durban, South Africa.
Member, International Advisory Committee, 17th Asia Oceania Congress of Medical Physics (AOCMP’17), 4-7 November 2017, Jaipur, India.
Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Biological Information and Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, China, 6-8 July 2018.

Invited talks at National & International meetings

"Medical Imaging: Current status and future perspectives" International Conference on the Arab World and the Society of Information. 4-8 May 1997, Tunis, Tunisia
“Recent developments in medical imaging instrumentation”, Laurentian University, Sudbury , Canada, 2 March 1999
“The physics of medical imaging”, University of East Anglia , Norwich, UK, 18 May 2000
“New trends in nuclear medical imaging”, University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, 07 June 2000.
“Développements technologiques de l’imagerie fonctionnelle PET” Journée de l’Image Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 January 2002
“Monte Carlo techniques in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine” International Symposium on Standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, Vienna, Austria, 25-28 November 2002 (IAEA)
“New horizons in multimodality imaging devices” Arab Health Congress 2003, The Middle East Imaging and Diagnostic Conference, 26-29 January 2003, Dubai , United Arab Emirates .
“Medical applications of radionuclides in diagnosis and therapy” 1st African Regional IRPA Congress, Johannesburg , South Africa 5-8 May 2003.
“Future trends in nuclear medical imaging” First International meeting on Applied Physics, Badajoz, Spain, 15-18th October 2003.
“Quantitative analysis in nuclear medicine imaging: Current status and future perspectives”, McMaster University, Hamilton , Canada, 23 September 2003.
“Quantification in SPECT and PET: Quo Vadis” Symposium on new developments in molecular imaging and radiation therapy, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, 30-31 October 2003.
“Advanced topics in medical physics and medical imaging”, series of seminars Jijel University, Jijel, Algeria, February 22-23 2004.
“The new challenges in nuclear medicine instrumentation design” Second International Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology (in cooperation with IAEA), Shiraz, Iran, 27-30 April 2004.
“Dual-modality imaging: more than the sum of its components”, Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, (Organized by TPP GE Medical Systems) Tehran, Iran, 29 April 2004.
Tutorial speaker: “Quantitative procedures in nuclear medical imaging”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2004), Singapore 24-27 October 2004.
“Nuclear medical imaging: State-of-the-art and future perspectives”, Journées d'Etudes Algéro-Française en Imagerie Médicale (Jetim’2004), Blida, Algeria, 30 November – 1st December 2004.
“Quantification in PET and PET/CT”, Health Sciences Center, University of Manitoba, Department of Radiology, Winnipeg, Canada, 13 January 2005.
First Gulf Nuclear medicine Conference, “delivered 3 invited talks on improvement of image quality in PET, quantitative image analysis and setting-up a new PET facility”, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1-3 March 2005.
“New horizons in PET instrumentation and quantitative imaging”, Radionuclides in Life Sciences, Swiss Nuclear Society seminar, 11 March 2005, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Future trends in the application of radionuclides in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine" 2nd International Workshop on Radiological Sciences and Applications (IWRSA), March 16-18, 2005 (IAEA) Vienna, Austria.
“What do the clinicians need vs. what can the physicists deliver: the new challenges for biomedical imaging research”, The First UAE International Conference on Biological and Medical Physics, 27-30 March 2005, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
“Current and future trends in PET/CT instrumentation”, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (INMOL), 9 December 2005, Lahore, Pakistan.
“New horizons in biomedical imaging research”, University of Canterbury, 8 March 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand.
“Trends in software vs. hardware dual-modality imaging”, Christchurch Hospital, 9 March 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand.
IAEA Regional Training course on QA in Non-Imaging Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation, "delivered series of lectures on QA/QC of nuclear medicine instrumentation", 6-10 May 2006, Algiers, Algeria.
“Positron Emission Tomography: State of the art and future perspectives”, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (COMENA),10 May 2006, Algiers, Algeria.
The 12th Annual Meeting of MCNEG (MCNEG'06), “delivered 2 invited talks on Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear medicine imaging systems and Relevance of Monte Carlo modelling in quantitative imaging and dosimetry in targeted therapy”, The School of Allied Health Sciences, City University, London, UK, 25-26 May 2006.
Journées d'Etude sur la Tomographie par Emission de Positons (PET), "delivered several lectures on Challenges for planning and running a PET facility, PET/CT Physics and Instrumentation and PET R&D activities at Geneva University Hospital", Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (COMENA), 2-4 July 2006, Algiers, Algeria.
International Symposium on Advances in Diagnostic Medical Physics and Workshop on Cyclotrons & PET/CT, “delivered 2 invited talks on PET/CT: Technical aspects and image registration and Image correction techniques in PET”, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, 13-16 July 2006.
“New frontiers in quantitative molecular imaging with PET”, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC 2006), Seoul, Korea, 27 August - 1 September 2006.
Conférence Nationale sur les Rayonnements et Applications, "Molecular imaging-guided monitoring of treatment response and radiation therapy treatment planning", Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (COMENA), 14-16 November 2006, Algiers, Algeria.
International Symposium on Recent Advances in PET & PET/CT Imaging, "delivered two lectures on Basic PET Physics and Instrumentation and Quantification of PET datal", Yedi Tepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 18-19 November 2006.
“The evolution of multimodality brain imaging”, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 30 January 2007, Groningen, The Netherlands.
“Advances in small-animal PET instrumentation”, Department of zoology and animal Biology, Geneva University, Switzerland, 28 March 2007.
Tutorial speaker: “Quantitative analysis in multimodality molecular imaging”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20 April 2007.
Conference on Optimization and Information systems (COSI'2007), “Emerging innovations in multidimensional and multimodal biomedical imaging”, University of Science and Technology, Oran, Algeria, 11-13 June 2007.
7th Asia-Oceania Congress on Medical Physics (AOCMP), "Medical physics in the 21st century: a challenge for Africa", Huangshan, China, 23-27 August, 2007.
CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastián, Spain, “Advances in quantitative multimodality molecular imaging”, 25th October 2007.
St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, “The role of molecular imaging in translational and clinical science”, 13th December 2007.
University of Berne, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Switzerland, “The evolving role of molecular imaging”, 11th April 2008.
16th International Conference of Medical Physics (ICMP-08) “Quantification in nuclear medicine”, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 14-16, 2008.
International Symposium on Advances in Diagnostic Imaging Physics, International Scientific Exchange Program of the AAPM (ISEP'2008), "delivered several lectures on basic physics and instrumentation in nuclear medicine, principles and applications of PET, image reconstruction and advances in dual-modality imaging: PET/CT and PET/MR", Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (COMENA), 4-8 May 2008, Algiers, Algeria.
Monte Carlo Methods and their Applications in Radiation Therapy and Diagnostic Imaging, “Monte Carlo simulations of medical imaging (PET and CT) systems”, 16-20 June 2008, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain.
King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, “Technological and clinical developments in molecular imaging using PET/CT”, 24th September 2008.
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay, Canada, “Strategies for attenuation correction in PET/CT and PET/MR”, 15th October 2008.
International Conference on Medical Physics (ICMP-2008), “Advances in multimodality molecular imaging”, 26–29 Nov 2008, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India.
WHO's Global Initiative for Radiation Safety in Healthcare Settings, delivered two talks on "Radiation protection in nuclear medicine" and "Scaling-up the role of the medical physicist in a clinical and research environment", 15–17 Dec. 2008, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Current State and Future Directions of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Technology, “PET vs. SPECT: strengths, limitations and challenges”, 3rd Feb 2009, The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), London, UK.
Third Gulf Nuclear Medicine Conference, “New frontiers in multimodality molecular imaging technology”, March 29th - April 1st 2009, Kuwait.
Conférence Internationale des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication CITIC'09, “Advances in multimodality medical image analysis”, May 4-6 2009, Setif, Algeria.
Annual meeting of the Tunisian Society of Nuclear Medicine, “Advances in PET and PET/CT technology”, June 27-28 2009, Monastir, Tunisia
10th Biennial ESTRO Conference, “Basic concepts of quantitative dynamic image analysis”, August 30th - September 3rd 2009, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
International Workshop on Current Topics in Diagnostic Medical Physics (ISEP’2009) “delivered several invited talks on basic nuclear medicine imaging physics and instrumentation, quality assurance, image reconstruction, and quantitative analysis with focus on radiation therapy”; Ankara, Turkey; October 17-20, 2009.
Annual meeting of the Turkish Medical Physics Society, “Advances in multimodality, multi-parametric molecular imaging”, Ankara, Turkey; October 22-24, 2009.
1st International Conference on Medical Imaging: From Technology to Application, “New frontiers in multimodality molecular imaging”, November 17-19 2009, Tunis, Tunisia.
First multidisciplinary Winter University, Biomedical Imaging Certificate, “delivered several invited talks on multimodality medical imaging technologies their and clinical applications”, December 20-24 2009, Algiers, Algeria.
Creative Counting in Nuclear Medicine, “Quantitative analysis of nuclear medicine images”, 9 Feb 2010, The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), London, UK.
Wright State University, Department of Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering, Dayton, OH, USA “Towards quantitative multimodality molecular imaging”, 5 April 2010.
Current issues in Positron Emission Tomography, “PET instrumentation: the future”, 15th September 2010, The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), Nottingham, UK.
Conference on Topics in Therapeutic and Diagnostic Medical Physics, “delivered several invited talks on basic nuclear medicine imaging physics and instrumentation, quality assurance, image reconstruction, and quantitative analysis with focus on radiation therapy”; Amman, Jordan; October 7–10, 2010.
9th International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2010), “Preclinical and clinical PET/CT and PET/MR: Technological advances and future perspectives”, November 3-5, 2010, Wuhan, China.
ACPSEM PET/CT Forum in Radiology and Radiation Oncology: Scientific and Clinical Applications 2010, “PET/CT-guided radiation therapy treatment planning” 8th November 2010, Canberra, Australia.
ACT Allied Health Symposium, “Molecular imaging technology: A futuristic outlook” 9th November 2010, Canberra, Australia.
Annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics, “Advances in multimodality molecular imaging”, 11-12 November 2010, Wabern, Switzerland.
University of Setif, Department of Physics, Setif, Algeria, “delivered series of lectures on medical imaging and multimodality molecular imaging instrumentation”, 17-22 January 2011.
International Conference on Medical Physics (ICMP 2011), delivered two talks on “Molecular Imaging-guided radiation therapy treatment planning” and “Multimodality imaging: current status and future perspectives”, 17-20 April, 2011, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Recent advances in Monte Carlo Techniques for Radiation Therapy, “Current and future roles of Monte Carlo simulations in nuclear medicine imaging”, 7-10 June, 2011, Montreal, Canada.
ISEP Diagnostic Imaging Workshop, “delivered several invited talks on basic nuclear medicine imaging physics and instrumentation, quality assurance, SPECT-CT and PET-CT”; June 17–20 2011, Patras, Greece.
The International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry (CAINE-2011), “Advances in multimodality medical image analysis and processing”, 16-18 November, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
The 6th Saudi Conference on Medical Physics, “delivered several invited talks on multimodality medical imaging technologies their use in radiation therapy”; 4-6 December, 2011, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Kuwait University, Health Sciences Center “Molecular imaging in the era of molecular medicine”, 22 December 2011, Kuwait-City, Kuwait.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Center for Imaging Science, “Multimodality molecular imaging: What’s new in the horizon?”, 2 May 2012, Rochester (NY), USA.
10th Asia Oceania Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (AOFNMB'2012), “delivered several invited talks on multimodality medical imaging technologies and their use in radiation therapy”, 16-20 Mai, 2012, Tehran, Iran.
Third European Workshop on Monte Carlo Treatment Planning, “New horizons in Monte Carlo simulations in nuclear medicine”, 15-18 Mai 2012, Seville, Spain.
Hybrid Imaging Workshop, Geneva University Hospital, “PET-CT Physics & Instrumentation”, Geneva, Switzerland, 15-17 November 2012.
Third International Conference on Image and Signal Processing and their Applications (ISPA’2012), “Multimodality molecular imaging: Paving the way for personalized medicine”, Mostaganem, Algeria, 2-4 December 2012.
University of Setif, Department of Physics, Setif, Algeria, “delivered series of lectures on medical imaging and multimodality molecular imaging instrumentation”, 9-12 February 2013.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, “Technological challenges of multimodality molecular imaging”, Las Vegas, USA, 15 February 2013.
Les XIVèmes Journées Médicochirurgicales Internationales d’El Eulma, “delivered 2 invited talks on multimodality molecular imaging and the role of quantitative imaging in clinical oncology”, 24-26 April 2013, El Eulma, Algeria.
New trends in nuclear medicine, “Technological challenges in hybrid PET/MRI systems”, 8-10 May 2013, Bologna, Italy.
The 2013 International Conference of Signal and Image Engineering, “Quantitative analysis in multimodality molecular imaging”, 3-5 July 2013, London, UK.
Symposium on Molecular PET-CT Imaging, “Advances in molecular PET-CT imaging”, 7 November 2013, Clinique Générale Beaulieu, Geneva, Switzerland.
7th Saudi Conference on Medical Physics, “delivered 3 invited talks on hybrid PET-MR instrumentation, the use of hybrid imaging in radiation therapy planning and R&D projects in PinLab - Geneva”, 12-14 November 2013, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Second WHO Global Forum on Medical Devices, “delivered 2 invited talks on medical physicist’s role in the safe and appropriate use of radiation medical devices and Pivotal role of the medical physicist in diagnostic imaging”, 22-24 November 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.
3rd Hybrid Imaging Workshop, “SPECT-CT and PET-CT Physics & Instrumentation”, Geneva, Switzerland, 12-14 December 2013, Geneva University Hospital.
University of Kuwait, College of Science, “Multimodality molecular imaging: Challenges and opportunities”, Kuwait, 22 December 2013.
University of Kuwait, Health Sciences Center, “The future of multimodality imaging: From PET-CT to PET-MR”, Kuwait, 24 December 2013.
Kuwait Cancer Center, “Academic medical physics research: A futuristic outlook”, Kuwait, 25 December 2013.
Qatar University, College of arts and sciences, “Multimodality molecular imaging: paving the way for personalized medicine”, Doha, Qatar, 17 February 2014.
National Center for Cancer Care & Research, “Hybrid imaging (PET-CT and PET-MR)-guided radiation therapy planning”, Doha, Qatar, 18 February 2014.
PET/MRI Workshop, University of Twente, “Technical aspect of PET/MRI in cardiovascular imaging”, 20 February, 2014, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS’14), “Advances in multimodality molecular imaging technology”, April 14-16, 2014, Marrakesh, Morocco.
1st Odense spring meeting, “Advances in quantitative PET imaging”, May 12-14, 2014, Odense, Denmark.
Saudi Health 2014, “The role of medical physics in clinical nuclear medicine”, 19 May, 2014, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
11th Congress of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, “Multimodality molecular imaging: Quo Vadis”, 27-31 August, 2014, Cancun, Mexico.
5th KAIMRC Scientific Forum, “Multimodality molecular imaging in the clinical arena", 9-10 September 2014, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Tutorial speaker, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2014), “Quantitative analysis in cellular and biomedical imaging”, 27-30 October 2014, Paris, France.
11th Iranian Conference of Medical Physics, “delivered 3 invited talks on Recent innovations in hybrid imaging technology, Developments in MRI-guided attenuation correction in PET/MRI and Advances in Monte Carlo-based internal radiation dosimetry”, 6-7 November 2014, Tehran, Iran.
University of British Columbia, “Advances in quantitative PET-CT and PET-MR imaging”, Vancouver, Canada, 22 January 2015.
6th Gulf Nuclear Medicine Conference, “delivered two invited talks on advances in multimodality molecular imaging and Image-derived PET metrics in clinical oncology”, 26-28 March 2015, Doha, Qatar.
The International Conference of Engineering Sciences for Biology and Medicine (ESBM 2015), “A pivotal role for quantitative multimodality imaging”, 1-3 Mai 2015, Monastir, Tunisia.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Multimodality molecular imaging: A futuristic outlook”, Hong Kong, 29 May 2015.
University of Southern Denmark, Inaugural seminar (Adjunct Professor Nomination) “Molecular imaging on the path to personalized medicine”, 31 August 2015, Odense, Denmark.
4th International Conference on Image and Signal Processing and their Applications (ISPA’2015), “Advances in quantitative hybrid imaging”, 6-7 September 2015, Mostaganem, Algeria.
International Conference on Clinical PET-CT and Molecular Imaging: PET-CT in the Era of Multimodality Imaging and Image Guided Therapy (IPET-2015), “Image-derived PET metrics in monitoring response to therapy”, 5-9 October 2015, Vienna, Austria.
Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR), “Quantitative molecular imaging: Past, Present and Future”, Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Lecture, 4-5 November 2015, London, UK.
Swiss Society of Medical Physics & Radiobiology Continuing Education Day “Improving image quality in PET: Technical and logistic aspects”, 27 November 2015, Aarau, Switzerland.
The 1st Medical Physics Workshop on Computed Tomography, Hamad Medical Corporation, “Recent advances in CT technology”, Doha, Qatar, 31 December 2015 – 1 January 2016.
International conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing (ATSIP’16), “Hybrid PET/MRI: Challenges and opportunities”, Monastir, Tunisia, 21-24 March 2016.
AAPM International Scientific Exchange Programs (ISEP) Diagnostic Imaging Symposium, “delivered several invited talks on basic nuclear medicine imaging physics and instrumentation, hybrid imaging (SPECT-CT, PET-CT and PET/MRI) and quantitative imaging”, Rabat, Morocco, 26-29 March 2016.
2nd Odense spring meeting, Molecular Imaging & DiaPeutics in Cancers and Inflammatory Disorders, “delivered 2 invited talks: From PET-CT to PET-MRI and Advances in MRI-guided attenuation correction in PET/MRI”, 11-13 April 2016, Odense, Denmark.
3rd Iranian Human Brain Mapping Congress “MRI-guided quantitative brain PET imaging: Challenges and opportunities”, 17-19 September 2016, Tehran, Iran.
International Symposium on Quantification and Standardization in Medical and Preclinical Imaging: State of the Art and Future Developments “Advances in MRI-guided quantitative PET imaging” 20-22 September 2016, Groningen, The Netherlands.
International Conference on Health Sciences and Medical Technologies (ICHSMT’16), “Quantitative imaging in monitoring response to treatment: Challenges and opportunities”, 27-29 September 2016, Tlemcen, Algeria.
Geneva University, Faculty of Medicine, Inaugural seminar “Quantitative molecular imaging: Past, Present, any Future?”, 29 September 2016.
International Symposium on Medical Physics, “Multimodality/multiparametric molecular imaging: The path to personalized medicine”, 18 October 2016, Setif, Algeria.
University of Kuwait, College of Science, “Adventures in the multimodality imaging instrumentation wonderland”, Kuwait, 26 December 2016.
University of Kuwait, Health Sciences Center, “Quantitative molecular imaging: paving the way for personalized medicine”, Kuwait, 27 December 2016.
3rd Global Forum on Medical devices, “Innovations in multimodality imaging devices", World Health Organization, 10-12th May 2017, Geneva, Switzerland.
University of Cergy-Pontoise, Institute for Advanced Studies, “Quantitative imaging biomarkers: Challenges and opportunities”, Cergy, France, 11 July 2017.
Fifth International Conference on Oncology (Onco’17), “Multimodality molecular imaging: Paving the way for personalized medicine”, Crete, Greece, 14-17 July 2017.
Rush University Medical Center, “From PET/CT to PET/MRI: Challenges and opportunities”, Chicago, USA, 4 August 2017.
Tutorial speaker, 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP’2017), “Quantitative analysis in medical multimodality medical imaging”, 11-15 September 2017, Catania, Italy.
55th Congress of the South African Association of Physicists in Medicine and Biology (SAAPMB 2017), “New horizons in multimodality molecular imaging”, 25-27 September 2017, Durban, South Africa.
AAPM International Scientific Exchange Program (ISEP), Radiation Therapy Symposium, “delivered several invited talks on imaging-guided radiation therapy planning, and quantitative molecular imaging in oncology”, 28-30 September 2017, Durban, South Africa.
University of the Free State, “Recent advances in PET quantification”, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2 October 2017.
University of Montreal, “Quantitative hybrid imaging: Looking back (PET/CT) and moving forward (PET/MRI)”, Montreal, Canada, 23 October 2017.
7th Gulf Nuclear Medicine Conference, “delivered two invited talks on Advances in quantitative PET/MRI and Molecular imaging-guided radiation therapy treatment planning”, 9-12 December 2017, Muscat, Oman.
International workshop on Emerging Technologies in Biomedical Engineering and TeleMedicine (ETBET'18), “Adventures in the multimodality imaging technology wonderland”, 18-19 February 2018, Doha, Qatar.
4th IEEE Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (MECBME’2018), “Multimodality molecular imaging: Paving the way for personalized medicine”, 28-30 March 2017, Tunis, Tunisia.
The 3rd International Conference on Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Clean Energy and Green Computing (EBECEGC’2018), “New horizons in multimodality molecular imaging”, Beirut, Lebanon, 25-27 April 2018.
World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC’2018) “delivered two invited talks on “Quantitative imaging biomarkers using PET/MRI”, “Hybrid imaging technology: Looking back and moving forward” and “PET/CT vs PET/MRI: Quo vadis”, 3-8 June 2018, Prague, Czech Republic.

External examiner of Ph.D dissertations

Examiner: Mohamed Badawy “Radiation dose optimisation in interventional cardiology”, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2017).
Examiner: Chiara Dolores Soffientini “Developments in segmentation algorithms for PET molecular imaging”, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy (2015).
Rapporteur: Adel Djllali, “Multivariate approaches in molecular neuroimaging of neurodegenerative disease”, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (2014).
Examiner: Pieter Vaissier "Image acquisition and reconstruction in multi-pinhole emission tomography”, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands (2014).
Examiner: Elisa Fiorina “Segmentation of medical images with the Channeler Ant model”, University of Torino, Torino, Italy (2013).
Rapporteur: Anjum Ayesha “Differentiation of Alzheimer's disease dementia, mild cognitive impairment and normal condition using PET-FDG and AV45 imaging: A machine learning approach”, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (2013).
Examiner: Chao Wu “Ultra-high-resolution quantitative multi-pinhole small-animal SPECT”, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (2013).
Examiner: Azahari Kasbollah “Zirconium-89 for positron emission tomography and hydoxamate resin column for Gallium-68 generator”, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2013).
Examiner: Moorthy Suresh “Dosimetric assessment of intensity modulated radiation therapy of breast cancer compared with 3D conformal radiation therapy in medical linear accelerator using 6MV X-rays”, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India (2013).
Examiner: Guozhi Zhang “Development, validation and application of a hybrid simulation techniques for cone beam CT in head and neck imaging”, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium (2012).
Faculty opponent: Olof Eriksson “I maging islets of Langerhans by Positron emission tomography: Quantification of Beta-cell in the native pancreas and the islet graft”, Uppsala University PET centre, Uppsala, Sweden (2011).
Examiner: Pasha Razifar (Docent dissertation) “Computerized image processing”, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (2010).
Examiner: Foued Derraz “Optimal segmentation by fast geometric active contour models” [Segmentation optimale par contour actif géométrique binaire rapide], Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis, France (2010).
Examiner: Clemence Driol “Towards high sensitivity Compton scatter emission imaging” [Imagerie par rayonnement gamma diffusé à haute sensibilité], CNRS UMR 8051/ ENSEA, Cergy-Pontoise University, France (2008).
Faculty opponent: Pasha Razifar (Ph.D thesis) “New approaches for application of principal component analysis on dynamic PET images for improvement of image quality and diagnosis”, Uppsala University PET centre, Uppsala, Sweden (2005).
Rapporteur: Jean-Luc Delarbre (Ph.D thesis) “Compton scatter imaging with application in SPECT", [L'imagerie par le rayonnement gamma diffusé avec application en SPECT] CNRS-UMR 805/ENSEA, Paris-XI University, France (2005).
Rapporteur: Jamaleddine Atif (Ph.D thesis) “Non-rigid medical image registration using a new information-theoretic criterion: The Generalized Mutual Information", [Recalage non-rigide multimodal des images radiologiques par information mutuelle quadratique normalisée] LIMSI-CNRS, Paris-XI University, Orsay, France (2004).

Certifications

Board certification by the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics (SSRMP) in Medical Imaging Physics.

Teaching activities

Geneva University, Faculty of Medicine, CC Radiologie 4,
Lecture Summary
AAPM Faculty, International Scientific Exchange Programs.
Developer of RSNA Physics Web-Based Instructional Modules
Editor of IPEM Nuclear Medicine Web-Based Instructional Modules.
Geneva University, Post-graduate education in Cognitive Neurosciences, "Functional brain imaging with SPECT and PET". Academic years, 2002-2005.
Geneva University, Faculty of Medicine, post-graduate education in Radiology (Department of Radiology, Geneva University), series of lectures on medical imaging, radiation protection and internal dosimetry. Academic years 2001-2006.
Joint post-graduate education in biomedical engineering UNIGE-UNIL-EPFL, "Physics and instrumentation of radionuclide imaging" Academic year 2000-2001.
School of Technologists in Medical Radiation Sciences, series of lectures on medical radiation physics and nuclear medical imaging.
Lecture 1: Bases Physiques
Continuing education for Technologists in Medical Radiation Sciences.

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