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Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | December 28, 2012
Alavi has received numerous awards and designations recognizing his outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear medicine, including the SNM Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award and the Berson-Yalow Award, the Fred Joliot Visiting Professorship at Orsay, France, and the Vic Haughton Honorary Lecture from the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Bologna, Italy, and the University of the Sciences, Philadelphia.
Throughout his career Larson has emphasized translating laboratory discoveries and radiotracer development into clinical research and advanced nuclear medicine practice. His PET research has emphasized treatment response assessment, especially in prostate cancer, thyroid cancer, esophageal cancer and breast cancer.
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Larson is an attending physician in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell University Medical Center and a professor in the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is chief of nuclear medicine service, vice chairman for radiology research, and director of the Laurent and Alberta Gerschel Positron Emission Tomography Center, and Donna & Benjamin M. Rosen chair in radiology in the Department of Radiology at Memorial Hospital in New York, NY.
Larson is also co-leader of the Imaging and Radiation Sciences Bridge Program (ImRas) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is laboratory head of the Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program and co-director of the Ludwig Trust Center for Immunotherapy of Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI). Additionally, Larson serves as chairman of the board of the Light of Life Foundation, a patient-centered thyroid cancer group dedicated to education of the public about thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment.
At the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., Larson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology, as well as his medical degree. He completed two fellowships at the University of Washington and was an intern and a resident at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle. For two years he also served as a clinical associate in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
