Arash Kardan, M.D.
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Arash Kardan, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine
Positions
- Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine
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Radiology
草榴社区入口
Houston, Texas
- Division Chief - Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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Radiology
Nuclear Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
草榴社区入口 Molecular Imaging and Therapy Program - BSLMC and Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center - BSLMC Cardiac PET Center - St. Luke's Woodlands, Sugar Land, Vintage, and Patient's Hospitals - Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital/Smith Clinic
- Chair - Radiation Safety Committee
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Radiation Safety Program
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Houston, Texas
- Chair - RSC Protocol Review Sub-committee
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Radiation Safety Program
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Houston, Texas
- Chief of Service - Nuclear Medicine
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Radiology
Ben Taub General Hospital-Harris Health System
Houston, Texas
Medical Director of Nuclear Medicine Medical Director of Nuclear Cardiology Lab
- Physician Chair - Radiation Safety Committee
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Radiation Safety Program
Harris Health System - Ben Taub Hospital/Smith Clinic
Houston, Texas
- Medical Director - PET/CT
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Radiology
Nuclear Medicine
Smith Clinic - Harris Health System
Houston, Texas
Addresses
- 草榴社区入口 (Office)
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Department of Radiology
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-4417
arash.kardan@bcm.edu
Education
- MD from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara
- 06/1999 - Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico
- Postdoctoral Training at New York Medical College
- 06/2000 - Valhalla, New York United States
- 5th Pathway Program
- Residency at Tucson Hospitals Medical Education Program/University of Arizona
- 06/2003 - Tucson, Arizona United States
- Internal Medicine Residency
- Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
- 06/2006 - Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship/Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET Fellowship
- Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
- 06/2008 - Boston, Massachusetts United States
- NIH T32 Advanced Molecular Imaging and Novel Radiotracer Development Fellowship
- Fellowship at Stanford University
- 06/2010 - Palo Alto, California United States
- Nuclear Medicine Fellowship/Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
- Fellowship at Stanford University
- 06/2011 - Palo Alto, California United States
- Oncology PET/CT Fellowship/Stanford Cancer Center/Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Honors & Awards
- NIH T32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA)
- Advanced Molecular Imaging and Novel Radiotracer Development
- National Institutes of Health (07/2006 - 06/2008)
- Top Doctors in Houston 2024 - Nuclear Medicine
- Houstonia Magazine (01/2024)
- Patient's Top Choice
- U.S. News and World Report
- Patients' Choice Award (2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2011)
- Vitals.com
- Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2011)
- Vitals.com
- On-Time Doctor Award (2018, 2017, 2015, 2014)
- Vitals.com
Professional Interests
- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine
- Molecular Imaging
- PET/CT
- PET/MRI
- Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET
- Theranostics
- Neuroendocrine Tumors/PRRT
- Novel Radiotracer and Therapeutics Development
- Medical Education
Websites
Selected Publications
- Mohamed, A., Asa, S., Lee, Z., Tirumani, S., Li, Q., Avril, N., Bajor, D., Mahipal, A., Chakrabarti, S., Selfridge, J., Kardan, A. "." J. Gastrointest. Oncol.. 2023 Apr;14(2) Pubmed PMID:
- "." 2021 Jul 28;19(7):839-868. Pubmed PMID:
- "." 2021 Apr;
- CR Dodson, C Marshall, JC Durieux, PF Wojtylak, JC Davidson, RF Muzic, and A Kardan "." Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2022 Aug 4; Pubmed PMID:
- Arash Kardan, Serah Choi, Martin Satter, Andrew Sloan, Raymond F. Muzic "." Handbook of Neuro-Oncology Neuroimaging (Third Edition), Editor(s): Herbert B. Newton. 2022;439-459.
- Graf J, Jacobs M, Gladd-Foley D, Ruiz-Irizarry Y, Kivitz A, Churchill M, Kardan A, Leach M, Ralph D, Korczak N, Hasselbach A, Abbruzzese B, Hershey R, Potter B, Fitzpatrick J, Thornton A, Blue M, Rosol M. "." Arthritis Rheumatol.. 2022 Nov;74(Supplement 9)
- A Kulkarni, L Zimmerman, P Wojtlylak, S Deng, R Al Helo, NA Harris, D Jordan, and A Kardan "." AAPM 2022. 2022 Jul;
- Muzic et al. "." J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2022 Aug 3; Pubmed PMID:
- Mohamed A, Asa SL, McCormick T, Al-Shakhshir H, Dasari A, Mauricio R, Salem I, Ocuin LM, Bajor D, Lee RT, Selfridge JE, Kardan A, Lee Z, Avril N, Kopp S, Winter JM, Hardacre JM, Ammori JB, Ghannoum MA. "." Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2022 Apr 30;44(5):2015-2028. Pubmed PMID:
- Arsenault T, Labak CM, Chaung K, Muzic RF Jr, Kardan A, Sloan A, Choi S, Podder T, Ouyang Z "." Cureus. 2021 Nov;13(11) Pubmed PMID:
- Patrick Wojtylak, Robert Jones, Lina Mehta, Norbert Avril and Arash Kardan "." J Nucl Med. 2021 May;62(Suppl 1):180.
- Patrick Wojtylak and Arash Kardan "." J Nucl Med. 2021 May;62(Suppl 1):3000.
- Patrick Wojtylak, Norbert Avril and Arash Kardan "." J Nucl Med. 2020 May;61(Suppl 1):3040.
- Leonard Zimmermann, Patrick Wojtylak and Arash Kardan "." J Nucl Med. 2020 May;61(Suppl 1):328.
- Devita R, Chagarlamudi K, Kardan A "." World J Nucl Med. 2020 Jan;19(2):144-46. Pubmed PMID:
- T Richards, J Anderson, M Reed, R Poelstra, M Satter, and A Kardan "." Oligodendroglioma: Clinical Presentation, Pathology, Molecular Biology, Imaging, and Treatment. 2019;157-71.
- Arash Kardan, Bonnie Abbruzzese, Allison Kissling, Matthew Haynam, David Ralph, Rachael Hershey, Ahmad Ismail, Michael Blue, Carley Hartings, Izabela Gierach, Hannah Bailey, Christopher Gabelmann, George Zubal, Maria Corsi and Frederick Cope "." J Nucl Med. 2018 May;59(Suppl 1):110.
- Arash Kardan, Allison Kissling, Carley Hartings, Rachael Hershey, Michael Blue, David Ralph, Michael Rosol, Ayah Hussein, Katherine Repp, Lori Christman, Maria Corsi, Ron Korn, Frederick Cope and Bonnie Abbruzzese "." J Nucl Med. 2019 May;60(Suppl 1):89.
- Arash Kardan, Roxane Weighall, James Sayre and Melanie Weaver "." J Nucl Med. 2018 May;59(Suppl 1):418.
- Arash Kardan, Martin Satter "." Handbook of Neurooncology Neuroimaging 2nd Ed.. 2016;371-84.
- Kim ES, Satter M, Reed M, Fadell R, Kardan A. "." Neuroradiol J. 2016 Jun;29(3):193-7. Pubmed PMID:
- Guy MS, Kardan A "." Clin Nucl Med. 2015 Jun;40(6):542-4. Pubmed PMID:
- Short RG, Bal S, German JP, Poelstra RJ, Kardan A "." Neuroradiol J. 2014 Dec;27(6):685-9. Pubmed PMID:
- Short RG, Kardan A "." Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Oct;39(10):445-7. Pubmed PMID:
- Guy MS, Jacob C, McDonald SD, Dowdy YG, Kardan A "." Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Apr;39(4):393-5. Pubmed PMID:
- "." Primary Care Reports. 2013 Jan 1;
- Mittra ES, Goris ML, Iagaru AH, Kardan A, Burton L, Berganos R, Chang E, Liu S, Shen B, Chin FT, Chen X, Gambhir SS "." Radiology. 2011 Jul;260(1):182-91. Pubmed PMID:
- El Fakhri G, Kardan A, Sitek A, Dorbala S, Abi-Hatem N, Lahoud Y, Fischman A, Coughlan M, Yasuda T, Di Carli MF "." J Nucl Med. 2009 Jul;50(7):1062-71. Pubmed PMID:
- David Elmaleh, Arash Kardan, Sandra Barrow, Steven Dragotakes, John Correia, Steven Weise, Boyan Goumnerov, Ljiljana Kundakovic, Henry Gewirtz and Alan Fischman "." J Nucl Med. 2009 May;50(Suppl 2):420.
- Arash Kardan, Timothy Shoup, Sandra Barrow, Steven Dragotakes, David Elmaleh and Alan Fischman "." J Nucl Med. 2008 May;49(Suppl 1):192.
- Gregory SA, MacRae CA, Aziz K, Sims KB, Schmahmann JD, Kardan A, Morss AM, Ellinor PT, Tawakol A, Fischman AJ, Gewirtz H "." Coron Artery Dis. 2007 Feb;18(1):15-22. Pubmed PMID:
Memberships
- SNMMI
- Southwest Chapter Board of Trustees
- NIH/NCI Center for Cancer Research Office of Sponsor and Regulatory Oversight
- Imaging/Radiation Therapy Committee Data and Safety Monitoring Board (07/2023)
- ACGME Nuclear Radiology Milestones Working Group
- (01/2019 - 07/2021)
- NCCN Neuroendocrine and Adrenal Tumors Guidelines Panel
- (01/2019 - 06/2022)
- Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation
Languages
Spanish, Farsi
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