Georges El Fakhri - Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Georges El Fakhri

Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Therapeutic Radiology; Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Yale School of Medicine

Elected to the Academy in 2026

Education

Ecole Centrale, MS, Mathematics; UT-Austin, MS, ECE; Univ of Paris XI, MS, Biomedical Engineering; Univ of Paris XI, PhD, Medical Physics; Univ of Paris XI, IFSBM, MD

Professional Areas

Professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and in the Department of Bioinformatics and Data Science, with expertise in quantitative nuclear medicine, including PET, SPECT, and MR in brain, cardiac, and cancer imaging, and simultaneous PET/MR.

Citation

For seminal contributions in the field of nuclear medicine imaging to quantitative SPECT, PET, and PET/MR in brain, cardiac, and cancer imaging, and for pioneering developments of advanced imaging technology.