Biography

Prof. Dr. Akram Al-Ibraheem, MD, FRCP, FEBNM, DCBNC, FANMB, FRCPE, is the Chairman of the Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Department at Jordan's King Hussein Cancer Center. Al-Ibraheem currently serves as the President of the Asia Oceania Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (AOFNMB), President of the Jordanian Society of Nuclear Medicine, and he was the Founding President of the Arab Society of Nuclear Medicine (ARSNM) from 2014 to 2019. He serves on the executive board of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology and teaches as an adjunct professor at Jordan University. He has served as an expert for the International Atomic Energy Agency since 2012. He founded and directs the nuclear medicine residency program at King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC). He also worked as an international consultant for the WHO. Prof. Al-Ibraheem introduced cutting-edge nuclear medicine and theranostic services to the KHCC and Jordan, such as novel molecular PET/CT imaging, peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT), and PSMA-ligand radionuclide therapy. Prof. Al-Ibraheem has written and published over 150 articles in international pubmed-indexed journals on the applications of PET/CT molecular imaging in oncology, radionuclide therapy, cancer diagnosis, and theranostics. He is an associate editor of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging NMMI and the Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology AOJNMB, among other membership of several international journal editorial boards, and has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences.