Faculty Member Named Fellow of American College of Nuclear Physicians

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Hani Abdel-Nabi, M.D., Ph.D., clinical professor of nuclear medicine at the University at Buffalo, has been named a fellow of the American College of Nuclear Physicians (ACNP).

Abdel-Nabi is one of only 200 members of the 2,000-member ACNP to be named a fellow in the organization. He is board certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.

Criteria for selection as a fellow includes scholarly and community activities, educational skills, local and national impact on the field of nuclear medicine, voluntary continuing education and special certification by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.

Nuclear medicine is the medical specialty that uses small amounts of radioactive materials for diagnosis and larger ones for treatment of certain diseases.

Abdel-Nabi, program director of the residency training program in the UB Department of Nuclear Medicine, is also medical director of the nuclear medicine technology program in the UB School of Health Related Professions.

A Getzville resident, he joined the UB faculty in 1988. He earned a medical degree from the Alexandria (Egypt) Faculty of Medicine and a doctorate in radiation biology from The Ohio State University.