EDUCATION

• Board of Nuclear Medicine - In Progress
• Nuclear Medicine Speciality Program - Kuwait Institute for Medical Studies, Kuwait University
• B.Sc., M.D., Medicine and Surgery (1985) - Faculty Of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait
  

EMPLOYMENT

Research Fellow, Nov., 1990 - 1997
Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Resident, 09/87- 10/90
Nuclear Medicine Dept. Mubark Al-kabeer Hospital, Kidney Transpalnt Center, Chest Disease Hospital, and Kuwait Cancer Control Center, Kuwait Medical School, Kuwait

Resident, 04/86 - 08/87
Internal Medicine Dept. Mubark Al-kabeer Hospital, and Al-Amiri Hospital, Kuwait Medical School, Kuwait

Internship, 03/85 -03/86
Mubark Al-kabeer Hospital, Adan Hospital, and Jahra Hospital, Kuwait

RESEARCH

I. Nov., 1990 - 1997
Under Supervision of B.L.Holman, M.D.
Phillip H. Cook Professor of Radiology
Chairman, Department of Radiology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, USA

Evaluation of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF) in Neurologic disorders using Radiolabelled Amines and High Resolution Brain Dedicated Gamma Camera CeraSPECT (DSI, Waltham, MA)
The use of Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography (SPECT) for evaluation of rCBF pattern in the following topics:
• Dementia
• Cerebrovascular Accidents
• Primary and Secondary Brain Tumors
• Affective Disorders
• Chronic Drug Abuse (Cocaine)
• CNS involvement in HIV Infections
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
• CNS Involvement in Lyme's Disease
• Epilepsy
• Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
• Interventional Methods for Functional mapping of Speech and Motor Cortex
• The use of Semi- Quantitative methods In Brain SPECT imaging
• The use of Automated Methods for registration of Functional (SPECT) and Anatomical (MRI, CT) Brain Studies (Superposition)
• Volumetric Quantitative Methods for the Interpretation of Brain SPECT Studies
• The Use Of The Internet and WWW for Medical Purposes (Atlas of Brain Perfusion SPECT)

II. Sep., 1987 - Sep., 1990
Under Supervision of Prof. of Radiology Hussein Abd-Dayem
Chairman, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
Kuwait University, Kuwait.

• Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Brain SPECT Images;
  1. Head Trauma
  2. Schizophrenia,
  3. Cerebrovascular Disease
  4. Epilepsy
• Clinical Evaluation of Pharmacological Activation Of CNS using Tc-99m HMPAO and SPECT in Cerebrovascular Diseases
  
• Investigation of the Use of Monoclonal Antibodies in Nuclear Medicine Imaging.
  1. In-111 Antifibrin
  2. In-111 Antimyosin
• Clinical Evaluation Of New Radiopharmaceuticlas;
  1. Tc-99m RP-30
  2. Tc-99m MAG-3

PUBLICATIONS

• Levin JM, et al. Improved regional cerebral blood flow in chronic cocaine polydrug users treated with buprenorphine. (J Nucl Med, 1995 Jul)
  
• Levin JM, et al. Gender differences in cerebral perfusion in cocaine abuse: technetium-99m-HMPAO SPECT study of drug-abusing women. (J Nucl Med, 1994 Dec)
  
• Chan KH, et al. A neural network classifier for cerebral perfusion imaging.(J Nucl Med, 1994 May)
  
• Schwartz RB, et al. SPECT imaging of the brain: comparison of findings in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, AIDS dementia complex, and major unipolar depression.
  (AJR Am J Roentgenol, 1994 Apr)
  
• Schwartz RB, et al. Detection of intracranial abnormalities in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: comparison of MR imaging and SPECT. (AJR Am J Roentgenol, 1994 Apr)
  
• Janicek MJ, et al. Tc-99m HMPAO brain perfusion SPECT in acute aphasia. Correlation with clinical and structural findings. (Clin Nucl Med, 1993 Dec)
  
• Johnson KA, et al. Quantitative brain SPECT in Alzheimer's disease and normal aging.
  (J Nucl Med, 1993 Nov)
  
• Alexander E 3d, et al. Thallium-201 technetium-99m HMPAO single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging for guiding stereotactic craniotomies in heavily irradiated
  malignant glioma patients. (Acta Neurochir (Wien), 1993)
  
• Holman BL, et al. Regional cerebral blood flow improves with treatment in chronic cocaine polydrug users. (J Nucl Med,1993 May)
  
• Carvalho PA, et al. Detection of recurrent gliomas with quantitative thallium-201/technetium-99m HMPAO single-photon emission computerized tomography. (J Neurosurg, 1992 Oct)
  
• Schwartz RB, et al. Hypertensive encephalopathy: findings on CT, MR imaging, and SPECT imaging in 14 cases. (AJR Am J Roentgenol, 1992 Aug)
  
• Holman BL, et al. A comparison of brain perfusion SPECT in cocaine abuse and AIDS dementia complex. (J Nucl Med, 1992 Jul)
  
• Vasile RG, et al. Focal Perfusion defects demonstrated by Tc-99m Hexamethylpropylenamine oxime SPECT in Elderly depressed patients. ( Psych Res: Neuroimaging 1996 Sep)
  
• Holman BL, et al. Atlas Of Brain Perfusion SPECT. http://www.med.harvard.edu/BWHRad/BrainSPECT/BrSPECT.html (1995 Oct)
  

ABSTRACTS

• A Neural Network Classifier For Brain SPECT. K.H. Chan, K.A, Lohnson, J.A. Becker, A Satlin, B. Garada, B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 34.5.27P,May 1993)
  
• Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT In The Diagnosis Of CFS. R.B. Schwartz, B.M. Garada, R. Vasile, A. Komaroff, and B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 34.5.47P,May 1993)
  
• A Unified Processing Environment For Image Fusion. J.A. Becker, K.A. Johnson, R.E. Zimmerman, B. Garada, and B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 34.5.179P,May 1993)
  
• Classification Of AIDS Dementia Complex Brain Perfusion Pattern By Qualitative And Quantitative SPECT K.A. Johnson, M.F. Kijewski, J.A. Becker, R.E. Zimmerman, B. Garada, B. Navia, J.L. Worth, and B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 34.5.203P,May 1993)
  
• Quantitative Brain SPECT Discriminates Alzheimer's Disease (AD) From Normal Aging. K.A. Johnson, M.F. Kijewski, J.A. Becker, B. Garada, A. Satlin and B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 34.5.208P,May 1993)
  
• SPECT/MR Brain Image Fusion In AIDS Dementia Complex (ADC). K.A. Johnson, J.A. Becker, R.E. Zimmerman, B. Garada, B. Navia, J.L. Worth, and B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 34.5.212P,May 1993)
  
• Demonstration Of Worksation-Based Brain Image Fusion. J.A. Becker, K.A. Johnson, R.E. Zimmerman, B. Garada, and B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 34.5.259P,May 1993)
  

Quantitative Brain Perfusion SPECT In Cocaine And Heroin Dependence. K.A. Johnson, M.F. Kijewski, J.A. Becker, J. Levin, B. Garada, J. Mendelson, B.L. Holman. (J Nucl Med, 35.5.210P,May 1994)

INTRESTS

• * Brain Research, mainly the use of segmentation and superposition methods for surgical planinig using SPECT and MRI data for the treatment of intracranial lesions.

  * The effect of intracranial lesions on the functional connections and the development of assymmetric changes in these connections.

  * The intrepretations of dreams and its realtionship to future events.

HOBBIES

* Oil painting, and drawing

* Graphic and mathematical puzzel solving

* Video and music editing

* Story writing