Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Drzezga
nuclear medicine
nuclear medicine
Overview
Country, City
Germany, Cologne
Health facility
University Hospital Cologne
Medical unit
Department of nuclear medicine
About the doctor
Skills & Expertise
alzheimers
pet
amyloid
brain
cancer
dementia
metabolism
petct
prostate
prostate cancer
tomography
neuroimaging
fdgpet
nuclear medicine
positron emission tomography
petmr
radioiodine
cortex
psma
glucose metabolism
hypometabolism
thyroid
memory
radioiodine therapy
lymphoma
18ffdg pet
hodgkin lymphoma
degeneration
amyloid deposition
thyroid cancer
cerebrospinal fluid
cerebral glucose
neurodegenerative disorders
amyloid plaques
frontotemporal dementia
prostatespecific membrane antigen
cognition
corticobasal syndrome
transcranial magnetic stimulation
supranuclear palsy
lung cancer
recurrence prostate cancer
progressive aphasia
motor cortex
lymph node
neuronal dysfunction
differentiated thyroid cancer
deep brain stimulation
cerebral hypometabolism
neuronal injury
Resume
CV (Curriculum Vitae)
Education
- Studied human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University and the Technical University of Munich
- Obtaining a license for medical practice
- Defense of the dissertation
- 1997-2002 Residency at the Department of nuclear medicine of the Technical University of Munich
- 2002 Obtaining specialization in nuclear medicine
- 2005 Habilitation and a teaching license in nuclear medicine at the Technical University of Munich
- 2008 Heisenberg grant of the German Research Foundation
- 2009-2010 Visiting Professor (Heisenberg Fellow), Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Harvard Medical School in Boston of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Experience
- 2002-2012 Consultant at the Department of nuclear medicine of the Technical University of Munich
- 2005-2012 Assistant Professor for nuclear medicine at the Technical University of Munich
- 2011-2012 W2 Professor for multimodal imaging in neurodegenerative disorders at the Technical University of Munich
- 2012 Professor and Chair of the Department of nuclear medicine at the University Hospital Cologne
Awards & Memberships
- 1998 Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of nuclear medicine from the Department of nuclear medicine of the Technical University of Munich
- 2004 Neuroscience Young Investigator Award of the Society of Nuclear Medicine
- 2006 The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Award of the International Alzheimer’s Association
- 2006 Wolfgang Becker Prize, donated by the Bavarian Society for Nuclear Medicine
- 2008 Best Application Paper Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- 2010 Hiruma-Wagner Award of the Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology
- 2011 Neuroscience Young Investigator Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine
- 2012 Editor’s Choice Award of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- 2012 Georg von Hevesy Prize of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine
- 2013-2016 Chair of the committee for diagnosis-related group systems and activity recording of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine
- 2013 Member of the neuroimaging council of the European Association for Nuclear Medicine
- 2013-2017 Chair of the scientific program committee for molecular imaging at the Radiological Society of North America
- 2015 Executive Board Member of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine
- 2015 Chairman of the ethics committee at the University of Cologne
- 2017 Director of the brain imaging council of the board of directors from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Languages
English
German
Publications
Dual-tracer PET/CT protocol with [18F]FDG and [68Ga]Ga-FAPI-46 outperforms single-tracer PET/CT with [18F]FDG in different cancer types, resulting in larger functional and gross tumor volume.
January, 2024
Educational level and its association with dopamine transporter loss in patients with Parkinson's disease
September, 2023
Prediction of Response to 177Lu-PSMA Therapy Based on Tumor-to-Kidney Ratio on Pretherapeutic PSMA PET/CT and Posttherapeutic Tumor-Dose Evaluation in mCRPC.
31 August, 2023
Location
Kerpener Str., 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany
FAQ
Where does the doctor practice?
What is the specialization of Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Drzezga?
The primary specialization of the doctor is nuclear medicine.
What is the experience of the specialist?
Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Drzezga has been practicing for more than 27 years.
Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Drzezga
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