We are pleased to announce that we will have the presence of a significant number of specialists who will contribute to creating an outstanding scientific program. We invite you to visit this section periodically to discover the list of invited speakers whom you will have the opportunity to meet during the conference.

Anca M. Avram
USA
Anca M. Avram is Professor of Radiology and Medicine at Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Center. Her clinical and research interests are centered on systemic radioisotope therapies, including radioactive iodine therapy for treatment of hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer, radioimmunotherapy for lymphoma, and targeted radioligand therapy for metastatic neuroendocrine tumors and prostate cancer. She developed a strong nuclear medicine therapy program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2022 she was recruited at Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio, where she currently serves as the Director of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology Divisions. Her academic contributions include 84 peer-reviewed publications and 16 book chapters.

Simona Ben Haim
Israel
Dr. Simona Ben-Haim is the Director of the Department of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine at Hadassah Ein-Kerem University Hospital, Associate Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Honorary Professor at University College London. She obtained her MD (1985) and DSc (1994) at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and specialized in Nuclear Medicine at Rambam Health Care Campus in Israel and University of Iowa College of Medicine, USA. Dr Ben-Haim has an extensive clinical experience in Nuclear Medicine of over 30 years in Israel and abroad. She promotes the field of Theranostics at Hadassah, an accredited ENETS center of excellence, recently accredited EARL Theranostics Center of Excellence and the first SNMMI Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence outside of North America.

Thomas Beyer
Austria
Thomas Beyer, PhD, MBA, is a Professor of Physics of Medical Imaging at the Medical University of Vienna and Head of the Quantitative Imaging and Medical Physics (QIMP) Team. He was a co-developer of the first clinical PET/CT system. His research focuses on advancing quantitative PET/CT and PET/MR imaging, artificial intelligence in medical imaging, and translating innovations into clinical practice through international collaboration and entrepreneurship, as attested to by co-founding two spin-off companies and multiple active industry collaborations.
Murat Fani Bozkurt
Turkey
Dr. Murat Fani Bozkurt is a professor of Nuclear Medicine at Hacettepe University Hospital in Ankara, Turkey. He is the immediate-past president of the Turkish Society of Nuclear Medicine (TSNM) and editor-in-chief of Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy (MIRT). He completed a research fellowship in oncological PET imaging at the University of Pennsylvania PET Center in 2003, and a visiting scientist program in Cardiac PET imaging at Harvard University Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2009. He has served as Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Hacettepe University since 2022. His main areas of interest are nuclear oncology, NET and prostate theranostics, Y-90 microsphere therapy, nuclear cardiology, and intraoperative gamma probe applications.

John Buscombe
UK
Dr John Buscombe is a recently retired nuclear medicine physician having worked as a specialist at the Royal Free Hospital, London and the Cambridge University Hospitals. He was also a professor of nuclear medicine at the University of Pretoria from 2010–2025. He has a long life interest in theragnostics, nuclear cardiology and infection imaging as well as education in nuclear medicine. He has 10,000 citations of his 270 peer reviewed papers.

Savvas Frangos
Cyprus
Dr. Savvas Frangos is a nuclear medicine specialist at the Nuclear Medicine Department and the Thyroid Cancer Clinic of the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Center in Nicosia, Cyprus. He is a Fellow of the European Board of Nuclear Medicine and currently serves as President of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (WFNMB) and President of the Cyprus Society of Nuclear Medicine. He is a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine, The EANM Journal and the European Journal of Hybrid Imaging, as well as co-editor of the Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Andrei Iagaru
USA
Dr. Iagaru is a Professor of Radiology - Nuclear Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. He completed medical school at Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania. His research interests include PET/MRI and PET/CT for early cancer detection, as well as clinical translation of novel radiopharmaceuticals for imaging and therapy. Dr. Iagaru has received several awards including the SNM 2009 Image of the Year Award, the 2022 Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Trailblazer Award SNMMI, and the 2023 Presidential Award SNMMI. He published more than 245 papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as 9 book chapters and 1 book.

Ora Israel
Israel
Ora Israel is Emeritus Professor of Imaging at the Rappaport School of Medicine, the Technion, in Haifa, Israel. Over more than four decades, her main scientific interests included multimodality imaging, in vivo radionuclide quantitation, and imaging of infection and inflammation. She has been involved in the development of hybrid imaging, SPECT/CT and PET/CT since its beginnings in the late 1990s. She is the author of four textbooks on Hybrid Imaging and over 220 scientific articles. Elected in 2018 as Fellow of the SNMMI (USA) — the first non-North American to receive this honor — and Honorary Member of the EANM in 2020.

Hossein Jadvar
USA
Dr. Hossein Jadvar is a tenured Professor of Radiology with joint appointments in Urology, Radiation Oncology, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA. He is a fellow and past president of both the ACNM and SNMMI. He serves as Chair for the U.S. NRC Advisory Committee on Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI). He has written over 270 peer-reviewed journal articles, published 4 books and 41 book chapters, been awarded 9 U.S. and European patents, and has had more than 300 invited lectureships and visiting professorships internationally.
Kalevi Kairemo
Finland
Prof. Kairemo graduated with a MSc (Eng) from Helsinki University of Technology in 1980, followed by an MD (1986) and PhD (1993) at the University of Helsinki. He is licensed as a medical specialist in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia. He served as Head of the Nuclear Medicine Division at Helsinki University Central Hospital (2004–2009) and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston since 2015. He is the past President (2024–2025) of WARMTH and Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

John T. Koutsikos
Greece
Prof. John T. Koutsikos is Chief of the Theranostics Nuclear Medicine Center at Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece. His clinical practice and research interests are imaging and therapy of thyroid cancer, neuroendocrine tumours and prostate cancer. Since 2019 he is the President of the Hellenic Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging. He is his country's delegate to the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology and also member of the EANM, SNMMI and WARMTH.

Riccardo Laudicella
Italy
Riccardo Laudicella is a Nuclear Medicine Physician and Researcher at Messina University, where he obtained a PhD in "Bioengineering Applied to Medical Sciences". He also completed a 1.5-year research fellowship in Switzerland (Universitätsspital Zurich, ETH, and Kantonsspital Baden) in hybrid imaging of genito-urinary cancer, internal radiotherapy, and glucose metabolism. His main interests are dedicated to theranostics, PSMA PET with also AI applications.
Masha Maharaj
South Africa
Dr. Masha Maharaj is a highly accomplished Nuclear Medicine Specialist with extensive expertise in theragnostics, oncology, molecular imaging, and interventional nuclear medicine. She leads multiple imaging and therapy centres in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria. Renowned for her leadership in expanding radionuclide therapy across Africa, she holds key leadership roles in global nuclear medicine organisations (president-elect 2028–2029 WARMTH).

Samia Massalha
Israel
Dr. Samia Massalha is a senior cardiologist and cardiac imaging specialist at Rambam Health Care Campus. She holds advanced fellowships in cardiac imaging and adult echocardiography from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada, and has dedicated her career to multimodality cardiovascular imaging, with special interest in nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, and cardiac MRI. She is a faculty member in international courses organized by EANM and ESC, and an active member of ASNC, SNMMI, and EANM. Her research interests include myocardial perfusion imaging, hybrid imaging, AI in cardiac imaging, and cardiovascular imaging in women.
Daniela-Elena Oprea-Lager
The Netherlands
Professor dr. Daniela-Elena Oprea-Lager, MD, PhD, is nuclear medicine physician at the Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is the chair of the Imaging Subcommittee Group 'Bone & Oligometastases' of the EORTC and Chair of the Foundation 'PSMA Forum NL'. She is a full-member of the Prostate Cancer Guidelines Panel within the EAU and member of the Oncology & Theranostics committee of the EANM. In 2024 she joined Radboud University Medical Center where she was appointed Professor Theranostics in 2025. Daniela authored more than 170 peer-reviewed journal publications.
John Prior
Switzerland
Professor John O. Prior, MD PhD, FEBNM, FSNMMI is Head of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland. He is dual-trained in engineering and medicine with an MSc. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas and a Master and doctoral degrees in medicine from the University of Lausanne. He specialized in nuclear medicine with a visiting professorship at UCLA. He is the President of the Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine, President of the Section and Board of Nuclear Medicine of the European Union of Medical Specialists, Treasurer of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology and serves as focal point for technical collaboration with WHO. He has authored or coauthored over 350 publications. Professor Prior has contributed to the WHA78.13 resolution on strengthening medical imaging capacity worldwide and contributes to its implementation in the global diagnostics coalition with his expertise in medicine, medical imaging, and engineering.

Dragana Sobic Saranovic
Serbia
Prof. dr. Dragana Sobic Saranovic is a nuclear medicine physician, chief of the Chair of Nuclear Medicine at Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade, Academician at Medical Academy of the Serbian Medical Society, president of Nuclear Cardiology Committee of the Serbian Medical Society, vice president of Ethics Council of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, member of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and past president of the Serbian Society of Nuclear Medicine. She has managed and participated in several national and international IAEA research projects. Prof. Sobic Saranovic is a Section editor in European Journal of Radiology and has published numerous publications (1624 citations, h-index 21).

Carl Taswell
USA
Dr. Taswell has been certified as a diplomate of both the American Board of Nuclear Medicine and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, and served for 3 decades on the faculty at the University of California San Diego in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering with expertise in functional and molecular brain imaging. He received his BA in biochemistry from Harvard College, his MSc in mathematics and MD in medicine both from New York University, and his PhD in scientific computing and computational mathematics from Stanford University. He has completed a post-doctoral fellowship in biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, as well as clinical training in psychiatry at UCSD and in nuclear medicine at UCSF. He has published numerous research papers spanning the fields of biochemistry, immunology, medicine, statistics, mathematics, informatics and brain imaging, and has designed and built software including LDACPA, ELIDA, WavBox, FirWav, GeneScene, PDP DREAM and NPDS-LINKS. Dr. Taswell is also a member of the IEEE, SIAM, ACM, ASIST, AMIA, ATA, SNMMI, ISTAART, and IPA.
Tim Van den Wyngaert
Belgium
Tim Van den Wyngaert, MD, PhD, is a nuclear medicine physician and professor at the University of Antwerp, and deputy head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium. His research focuses on molecular imaging, with a particular interest in bone SPECT/CT and the development of radiopharmaceuticals for imaging the tumor microenvironment. He serves as Chairman of the Young Professionals Council of the EANM and President of the Belgian Society of Nuclear Medicine (BELNUC). He is the European Lead of INSPIRE by EANM, the flagship workforce programme of the EANM.
Irene Virgolini
Austria
Dr. Irene Virgolini is a University lecturer and Full Professor of Nuclear Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. She was appointed as a venia docendi in Experimental Nuclear Medicine and Internal Medicine. As Director of the University Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, she has expanded the clinic in clinic, research, and teaching. Her research focuses on the development and preclinical validation of new radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis and therapy in Nuclear Medicine and her clinical work is focused on treating metastasized prostate cancer and improving patient quality of life. She has published over 200 papers, presented over 300 lectures, and is the President of the World Association of Radiopharmaceutical Therapy.

David B. Weinreb
USA
Dr. David B. Weinreb is a nuclear radiologist at Saint Peter's Hospital in Albany, the capital city of New York State. He completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University, pursuing a double-major in Biochemistry and Geology. He obtained his medical degree at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, followed by a residency in diagnostic radiology at the Hospital of Saint Raphael's in Connecticut and a fellowship in nuclear radiology at Stanford University in California. He has 15 years of post-training experience as a nuclear radiologist, with a specific clinical focus on oncologic imaging and PET/CT.
Elena Barbus
Cluj-Napoca
Iulia Chiriac
Bucharest
Mircea Dragoteanu
Cluj-Napoca
Mirela Gherghe
Bucharest
Prof. Dr. Mirela Gherghe is a senior physician and academic specialized in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. She is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" and Head of the Nuclear Medicine Department, while also leading the Clinical Nuclear Medicine and PET-CT Department at the Institute of Oncology "Prof. Dr. Alexandru Trestioreanu" Bucharest. With over 25 years of clinical experience, she has played a pioneering role in introducing advanced nuclear medicine procedures in Romania. Prof. Gherghe is Vice-President of the Romanian Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Romania's National Delegate to the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. Her research portfolio includes 65 Web of Science–indexed publications; she was awarded in 2025 the Health Merit (Knight grade) by the Romanian Government.
Vlad Ghizdovăț
Iasi

Magda Gurzun
Bucharest
Dr. Maria-Magdalena Gurzun is a distinguished Romanian cardiologist and Associate Professor at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest. She currently practices at the Central Emergency Military Hospital "Dr. Carol Davila" in Bucharest. She has extensive expertise in cardiovascular imaging, especially in echocardiography, cardiac CT, nuclear cardiology and cardiac MRI. Her research and clinical interests focus on modern cardiac imaging techniques and their application to complex cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Gurzun actively contributes to scientific education and has presented her work at national and international congresses.

Diana Iancu
Bucharest
Dr. Iancu Diana Alexandra is a senior cardiologist with expertise in transesophageal echocardiography and vascular ultrasound, and European certification in transthoracic echocardiography. She has been active since 2019 in the Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Laboratory at the Central Military Emergency University Hospital "Dr. Carol Davila". An important contribution of the laboratory consists in serial imaging follow-up of patients with infective endocarditis with transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, as part of a multidisciplinary management in collaboration with medical specialities and cardiovascular surgery.
Robert Maaz
Bucharest

Raluca Mititelu
Bucharest
Mario Mutuleanu
Bucharest
Claudiu Peștean
Cluj-Napoca
Cristina Petroiu
Bucharest
Doina Piciu
Cluj-Napoca
Paula Spiridon
Bucharest
Claudiu Stan
Bucharest
Silviu Stanciu
Bucharest
Dr. Silviu Stanciu is an Associate Professor and Senior Consultant in Cardiology and Internal Medicine at the Central Military Hospital in Bucharest, where he also serves as Head of the Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Laboratory. With extensive clinical experience in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular and complex internal medicine conditions, his professional interests focus on a multimodal and interdisciplinary approach to cardiovascular diseases, including preventive cardiology, cardiovascular risk assessment, and the integrated management of chronic conditions.
Cipriana Ștefănescu
Iasi
Sofia Topală
Chisinau
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