Arash Kardan

Arash Kardan, M.D.

Professor of Radiology and Medicine

Email

arash.kardan@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor of Radiology and Medicine: Radiology
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Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging: Radiology
Nuclear Medicine
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Chief of Service - Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging: Radiology
Nuclear Medicine
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Houston, Texas, United States
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center -SLEH -McNair Campus BSLMC Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center -Director of Theronostics BSLMC Texas Heart Institute -Director of Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET

Chair - Radiation Safety Committee: Radiation Safety Program
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Chair - RSC Protocol Review Sub-committee: Radiation Safety Program
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Chief of Service - Nuclear Medicine: Radiology
Ben Taub General Hospital-Harris Health System
Houston, Texas
Medical Director of Nuclear Medicine Medical Director of Nuclear Cardiology Lab

Chief of Service - PET/CT: Radiology
Nuclear Medicine
Smith Clinic - Harris Health System
Houston, Texas

Chair - Radiation Safety Committee: Radiation Safety Program
Harris Health System - Ben Taub Hospital/Smith Clinic
Houston, Texas

Addresses

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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
Theranostics
Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET
Novel Radiotracer and Therapeutics Development
PET/CT
PET/MRI
Medical Education

Professional Statement

I am an academic nuclear medicine physician with over 20 years of clinical and leadership experience in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine. I am a Professor of Radiology and Medicine and the Division Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for ��vlog�� of Medicine (BCM), one of the top medical schools in the US. I oversee all clinical operations and academic activities of the section, which serves multiple BCM partner hospitals and healthcare systems in the Houston area.

I serve as Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for BSLMC and the BCM Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. I serve as Chair of the Radiation Safety Program for BSLMC. I am the Director of the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Theranostics Program and the Director of the BSLMC/THI Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET Laboratory.

I serve as the Chief of Nuclear Medicine for Ben Taub Hospital, a level 1 trauma center in the Texas Medical Center, and the Chief of PET/CT for Harris Health System, a safety net county hospital system serving the most vulnerable population in Houston. I am the Chair of that Radiation Safety Committee for HH Ben Taub Hospital and Smith Clinic ACS.

My mission is to advance the field of nuclear medicine through research, education, and patient care. I am an expert in theranostics, radionuclide therapy, and molecular imaging, with a special focus on cardiac PET and thyroid cancer. My research interests include the translation of novel radiopharmaceuticals into human use, with a special interest in personalized Medical Internal Dosimetry. I have published multiple peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and abstracts, and have been invited to speak at national and international conferences. I am also passionate about teaching and mentoring the next generation of physicians and scientists including nuclear medicine physicians, medical physicists, radiologists, cardiologists, and medical students.

Websites

Selected Publications

Jin Uk Heo, Santosh Rao, Herbert B Newton, Afshin Dowlati, Raymond F Muzic, Arash Kardan. " " Integr Cancer Ther. 2026 Feb 13; 25
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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)
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" 2021 Jul 28; 19 (7) : 839-868.
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CR Dodson, C Marshall, JC Durieux, PF Wojtylak, JC Davidson, RF Muzic, and A Kardan. " " Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2022 Aug 4;
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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;
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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.
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Arsenault T, Labak CM, Chaung K, Muzic RF Jr, Kardan A, Sloan A, Choi S, Podder T, Ouyang Z. " " Cureus. 2021 Nov ; 13 (11)
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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.
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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.
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Guy MS, Kardan A. " " Clin Nucl Med. 2015 Jun ; 40 (6) : 542-4.
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Short RG, Bal S, German JP, Poelstra RJ, Kardan A. " " Neuroradiol J. 2014 Dec ; 27 (6) : 685-9.
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Short RG, Kardan A. " " Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Oct ; 39 (10) : 445-7.
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Guy MS, Jacob C, McDonald SD, Dowdy YG, Kardan A. " " Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Apr ; 39 (4) : 393-5.
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" 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 - 07/2025)

NCCN Neuroendocrine and Adrenal Tumors Guidelines Panel: (01/2019 - 06/2022)

ACGME Nuclear Radiology Milestones Working Group: (01/2019 - 07/2021)

Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation

Languages

Spanish, Farsi

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