Dr Jean-Luc Urbain, MD, PhD

Chief of Nuclear Medicine Lebanon VA Medical Center

Dr. Urbain has been an active member of the Nuclear Medicine community for more than 25 years. Originally a native from Belgium, he earned his Medical Degree at the Catholic University of Louvain, the oldest Medical School in Europe. He then pursued training in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine and is board certified in Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. After that he actively engaged in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Biology Research at Temple University in Philadelphia where is got his Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Dr. Urbain has been full Professor of Diagnostic Imaging for more than 2 decades and has held leadership positions in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Cleveland Clinic and at the University of Western Ontario.

As a teacher and leader in Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, he has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers, 20 book chapters and more than 200 abstracts.

Molecular Imaging and Personalized Medicine are his current areas of interest.

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