Georges El Fakhir
Keynote speaker “PET is Wonderful” 2025

Dr El Fakhri is the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and the Department of Bioinformatics and Data Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Yale Biomedical Imaging Institute, Vice-Chair for Scientific Research in Radiology and the Director of the Yale PET Center at Yale University. Dr El Fakhri is an internationally recognized expert in quantitative molecular imaging (SPECT, PET-CT, and PET-MR) for in vivo assessment of patho-physiology in brain, cardiac and oncologic diseases. Current areas of research include high resolution PET/MR imaging in a range of diseases including neurodegenerative disease and traumatic brain injury (amyloid and neurofibrillary tangles), cardiac disease (mitochondrial membrane potential), as well as guiding radiotherapy planning (PET/MRSI).