Ali Nabavizadeh, MD

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Ali Nabavizadeh, MD, is Director of Imaging with the Neuroscience Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Background

Dr. Ali Nabavizadeh is the D³b Director of Imaging responsible for developing and overseeing an imaging program ranging from monitoring the pediatric brain tumor microenvironment using MRI and PET molecular imaging techniques, to large-scale imaging genomic bioinformatic analysis on multidimensional data.

Ali’s research focuses on multimodality imaging using structural and physiologic MRI imaging with additional PET probes and molecular imaging techniques to better understand the complex nature of brain tumor microenvironment. The ultimate goal of his research is to use imaging and liquid biopsy biomarkers in prognostication, tumor response evaluation, and differentiation of tumor progression from treatment effect.

Ali joined D³b in 2020 and is also currently an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is committed to facilitating collaboration and accelerating the implementation of advanced MRI and molecular imaging in pediatric brain tumors.

Ali earned his medical degree and completed a residency program in Radiology at Shiraz University School of Medicine. He next completed a Pediatric Neuroradiology Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia which was followed by 2-year adult fellowships in neuroradiology and nuclear radiology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education and Training

Medical School

MD - Shiraz Medical School (School of Medicine), Shiraz, Iran

Internship

Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Hospitals, Shiraz, Iran

Residency

Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Fellowship

Pediatric Neuroradiology - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Neuroradiology - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Nuclear Radiology - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Board Certification

Diagnostic Radiology – American Board of Radiology
Neuroradiology – American Board of Radiology
Nuclear Medicine – American Board of Nuclear Medicine

Titles and Academic Titles

Director of Imaging, D3b

Research Interests

Dr. Nabavizadeh is currently the principal investigator of multiple imaging clinical trials in patients with brain tumors. His research efforts involve multimodality imaging using structural and physiologic MRI imaging with additional PET probes and molecular imaging techniques to better understand the complex nature of brain tumor microenvironment. The ultimate goal of his research is to use imaging and liquid biopsy biomarkers in prognostication, tumor response evaluation, differentiation of tumor progression from treatment-effect.

Publications

Abstracts

2023

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Adam Kraya, Meen Chul Kim, Debanjan Haldar, Komal Rathi, Aria Mahtabfar, Ariana Familiar, Nastaran Khalili, Ammar Naqvi, Mateusz Koptyra, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Jeffrey B Ware, Phillip B. Storm, Arastoo Vossough, Adam C. Resnick, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: Molecular Processes Give Rise to Emergence of Radio-phenotypes on MRI Scans of Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma. 2023 SNO Pediatric Conference, Washington DC June 2023.

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Meen Chul Kim, Adam Kraya, Aria Mahtabfar, Debanjan Haldar, Komal Rathi, Nastaran Khalili, Ariana Familiar, Jeffrey B Ware, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Phillip B. Storm, Adam C. Resnick, Arastoo Vossough, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: Radiomic-based Risk Stratification of Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma Reveals Differentially Expressed Molecular Processes Contributing to Variable Patient Prognosis. 2023 SNO Pediatric Conference, Washington DC June 2023.

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Nastaran Khalili, Debanjan Haldar, Karthik Viswanathan, Ariana Familiar, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Sherjeel Arif, Rachel Madhogarhia, Meen Chul Kim, Aria Mahtabfar, Phillip B. Storm, Adam Resnick, Jeffrey B Ware, Christos Davatzikos, Arastoo Vossough, Ali Nabavizadeh: A Multi-Institutional and Multi-Histology Pediatric-Specific Brain Tumor Subregion Segmentation Tool: Facilitating RAPNO-based Assessment of Treatment Response. 2023 SNO Pediatric Conference, Washington DC June 2023.

Ariana Familiar, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Rocky Breslow, Sherjeel Arif, Alex Lubneuski, Debanjan Haldar, Allison P. Heath, Adam C. Resnick, Ali Nabavizadeh: Bridging multi-institutional clinical neuroimaging data with advanced AI analytics for worldwide translational research in pediatric neuro-oncology. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine June 2023.

Ariana Familiar, Karthik Viswanathan, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Allison P. Heath, Adam C. Resnick, Ali Nabavizadeh, Arastoo Vossough: Automated image classification to enable curation of multi-institutional clinically acquired imaging datasets in neuro-oncology. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Austin June 2023.

Ariana Familiar, Karthik Viswanathan, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Avi Kelman, Allison P. Heath, Ali Nabavizadeh, Adam C. Resnick: Scalable cloud-based workflows and analytical platforms to accelerate the incorporation of digital pathology in research studies. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Austin June 2023.

Ariana Familiar, Soner Koc, Meen Chul Kim, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Yvete Toivola, John Digiovanna, Michele Mattioni, Surya Saha, Allison Heath, Nicolas Pannetier, Ali Nabavizadeh, Michael Perry, Dennis A. Dean, Travis Richardson, Adam C. Resnick: Enabling multi-modal data analytics with interoperable software platforms and scalable workflows: a blueprint for harnessing clinical, imaging, and molecular -omic data in translational research. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Austin June 2023.

Debanjan Haldar, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Aria Mahtabfar, Nastaran Khalili, Ariana Familiar, Adam Kraya, Meen Chul Kim, Wenxin Tu, Shuvanjan Haldar, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Karthik Viswanathan, Ibraheem Shaikh, Jeffrey Ware, Phillip Storm, Arastoo Vossough, Adam Resnick, Ali Nabavizadeh: Multi-Modality Characterization of Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma: The Added Value of Different Data Modalities. 2023 SNO Pediatric Conference, Washington DC June 2023.Nastaran Khalili, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Sina Bagheri, Ariana Familiar, Karthik Viswanathan, Hannah Anderson, Debanjan Haldar, Jeffrey B. Ware, Arastoo Vossough, Ali Nabavizadeh: Volumetric measurement of tumor size outperforms standard two-dimensional method in early prediction of tumor progression in pediatric glioma. 2023 SNO Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Research Conference June 2023.

2022

Rachel Madhogarhia, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Sherjeel Arif, Jeffrey B Ware, Ariana Familiar, Lorenna Vidal, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Debanjan Haldar, Sophie Yagoda, Erin Graves, Michael Spadola, Rachel Yan, Chiharu Sako, Arastoo Vossough, Jay Storm, Adam Resnick, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: Automated Segmentation of Pediatric Brain Tumors Based on Multi-Parametric MRI and Deep Learning. SPIE Medical Imaging Conference February 2022.

Hossein Shooli, Majid Assadi, Ali Nabavizadeh, Ana Francschi, Mariam Aboian: It's time to embrace hybrid imaging in gliomas: A Bench-to-Bedsidetutorial to amino acid PET/MRI. American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting, New York May 2022.

Sartaaj Walia, Hussein Nasser, Alvand Hassankhani, Ali Nabavizadeh, Suyash Mohan: Dialysis Induced Edema (DIE): A delicate interplay between neurons and nephrons American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting, New York May 2022.

Adam A. Kraya, Run Jin, Chao Zhao, Ariana Familiar, Kathryn Wellen, Adam C. Resnick, Ali Nabavizadeh: The glutamine transporter SLC1A5 is associated with rewiring of amino acid pathways and tumor prognosis in pediatric brain cancers. The 20th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology June 2022.

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Sherjeel Arif1, Debanjan Haldar, Rachel Madhogarhia, Ariana Familiar, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Jeffrey B Ware, Arastoo Vossough, Phillip J. Storm, Adam Resnick, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: Radiomic Profiling of Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma Improves Risk Stratification Beyond Clinical Measures. The 20th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Hamburg, Germany June 2022.

Marc von Reppert, MingDe Lin, Khaled Bousabarah1,Ariana Familiar, Ryan Velasco, Angela Waanders, Arastoo Vossough, Amanda Haddock, Theodore P Nicholaides, Kristin R Swanson, Anahita Kazeroon, Cassie Kline, Ali Nabavizadeh, Daphne Haas-Kogan, Michae Prados, Joshua B Rubin, Sabine Mueller, Mariam S Aboian: Volumetry-based response characterization of recurrent pediatric low-grade gliomas in PNOC clinical Neuro-oncology trials The 20th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Hamburg, Germany June 2022.

Ali Nabavizadeh, Adam A. Kraya, Run Jin, Chao Zhao, Ariana Familiar, Kathryn Wellen, Adam C. Resnick, : The glutamine transporter SLC1A5 is associated with rewiring of amino acid, lipid, and immune pathways and tumor prognosis in pediatric brain cancers. Society of Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting, Tampa,Florida November 2022.

Ali Nabavizadeh, Chao Zhao, Daniel Martinez, Ariana Familiar, Mateusz Koptyra, Joseph Ippolito, Joshua B. Rubin, Philip B Storm, Adam C. Resnick, Mariarita Santi-vicini: Sodium-dependent glucose transporter 2 (SGLT2) is overexpressed in the majority of ATRTs and a subset of pediatric patients with high grade glioma; a potential imaging and therapeutic target. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting November 2022.

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Adam Kraya, Meen Chul Kim, Nastaran Khalili, Sherjeel Arif, Run Jin, Komal Rathi, Ariana Familiar, Rachel Madhogarhia, Debanjan Haldar, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Ibraheem Salman Shaikh, Shuvanjan Haldar, Jeffrey B Ware, Arastoo Vossough, Phillip B. Storm, Adam C. Resnick, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: Radioimmunomic signatures in pediatric low-grade glioma based on multiparametric MRI scans. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida November 2022.  Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Rachel Madhogarhia, Sherjeel Arif, Jeffrey B Ware, Sina Bagheri, Debanjan Haldar, Hannah Anderson, Ariana Familiar, Lorenna Vidal, Mariam Aboian, Phillip B. Storm, Adam Resnick, Arastoo Vossough, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: RAPNO-defined segmentation and volumetric assessment of pediatric brain tumors on multi-parametric MRI scans using deep learning; a robust tool with potential application in tumor response assessment. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida November 2022.

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Rachel Madhogarhia, Sherjeel Arif, Jeffrey B Ware, Sina Bagheri, Debanjan Haldar, Hannah Anderson, Ariana Familiar, Lorenna Vidal, Mariam Aboian, Phillip B. Storm, Adam Resnick, Arastoo Vossough, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: RAPNO-defined segmentation and volumetric assessment of pediatric brain tumors on multi-parametric MRI scans using deep learning; a robust tool with potential application in tumor response assessment. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida November 2022.

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Sherjeel Arif, Debanjan Haldar, Chao Zhao, Meen Chul Kim, Rachel Madhogarhia, Ariana Familiar, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Jeffrey B Ware, Arastoo Vossough, Phillip B. Storm, Adam C. Resnick, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: Radiomic-based progression-free survival stratification of pediatric low-grade glioma is associated with molecular alterations. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida November 2022.

Ariana M. Familiar, Chao Zhao, Meen Chul Kim, Nastaran Khalili, Rachel Madhogarhia, Sherjeel Arif, Sina Bagheri, Hannah Anderson, Debanjan Haldar, Jeffrey B. Ware, Arastoo Vossough, Phillip B. Storm, Adam C. Resnick, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Ali Nabavizadeh: Characterizing immune profiles of pediatric medulloblastoma and their radiological correlates. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida November 2022.

Nastaran Khalili, Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Ariana Familiar, Sina Bagheri, Derek Oldridge, Rachel Madhogarhia, Sherjeel Arif, Meen Chul Kim, Debanjan Haldar, Hannah Anderson, Jeffrey Ware, Arastoo Vossough, Phillip Storm, Adam Resnick, Christos Davatzikos, Ali Nabavizadeh: Radiomics for Predicting Tumor Immune Profile of Pediatric Glioma RSNA Annual Meeting, Chicago November 2022.

Sina Bagheri, Mohammad Taghvaei, Debanjan Haldar, Alireza Zandifar, Chao Zhao, Arastoo Vossough, Ali Nabavizadeh: Statistical plots in oncologic imaging, a primer for radiologists RSNA Annual Meeting, Chicago November 2022.

2021

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Laura C Bell, Floris Van den Abeele, Ruben Verhack, Xinze Zhou, Salman Rezaei, Zaki Ahmed, Rianne van der Heijden, Diego Pineda, Seyed Ali Nabavizadeh, Leland Hu, Hamidreza Saligheh Rad, Steven Sourbro: OSIPI-DCE Challenge: promoting reproducible Ktrans quantification in the brain. ISMRM May 2021.

Samantha C. Guiry BA, Amir Nazem, Mehrdad Pourfathi, Jeffrey B. Ware, Hannah Anderson, MacLean Nasrallah, Stephen J. Bagley, Arati Desai, Donald M. O'Rourke, Steven Brem, Seyed Ali Nabavizadeh: Radiology-Pathology Correlation Analysis of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Glioblastoma. ASNR May 2021.

Mattay R, Favilla C, Pukenas B, Choudhri O, Hurst R, Nabavizadeh A: Vessel wall imaging with MRI to assess endothelial wall injury post mechanical thrombectomy. 18th SNIS Annual Meeting 2021 - Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery Congress. Colorado Springs, Colorado July 2021.

Ali Nabavizadeh, Amir Nazem, Samantha C. Guiry, Mehrdad Pourfathi, Jeffrey B. Ware, Hannah Anderson, Srikant Kamesh Iyer, Brianna F Moon, Yi Fan, Walter R. Witschey, Rahim Rizi, Stephen J. Bagley, Arati Desai, Donald M. O'Rourke, Steven Brem, MacLean Nasrallah: [18F]Fluciclovine PET to distinguish pseudoprogression from true tumor progression in post-treatment glioblastoma. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting November 2021.

Ali Nabavizadeh, Robert K Doot, Anthony J Young, MacLean Nasrallah, Jeff Ware, Fraser Henderson Jr, Austin Pantel, Isaac Chen, John Lee, Arati Desai, Stephen J Bagley, Donald M O'Rourke, Steven Brem: MR Susceptibility Imaging for Detection of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Glioblastoma. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting, Boston November 2021.

Hossein Shooli, Majid Assadi,Ali Nabavizadeh, Mariam Aboian: Amino acid PET/MRI in Gliomas: A review from molecular principles to clinical applications. Radiology Society of North America Annual Meeting, Chicago November 2021.

Jacob E. Till, Aseel Abdalla, Zhuoyang Wang, Wanding Zhou,Ali Nabavizadeh, MD, Zev A. Binder, Jasmin Hussain, Taylor A. Black, Stephanie S. Yee, Arati Desai, Stephen J. Bagley, Erica L. Carpenter, : Methylation analysis to reveal the cellular origin of prognostic circulating cell-free DNA in glioblastoma. Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting November 2021.

2020

Stephanie Wu, Mougnyan Cox, Seyed Ali Nabavizadeh: Unusual cerebral infarct patterns every radiologist should know. American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting due to COVID) May 2020.

Stephen Joseph Bagley, Seyed Ali Nabavizadeh, Jacob Till, Aseel Abdalla, Hareena Sanga, Jazmine Mays, Timothy Prior, Andrew Jurgielewicz, Samantha Guiry, Karapet Davtyan, Stephanie S. Yee, Zev A Binder, Donald M. O'Rourke, Steven Brem, Arati Suvas Desai, Erica L. Carpenter: A prospective validation cohort study of baseline plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) as a prognostic biomarker in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM). ASCO, Virtual due to COVID19 June 2020.

Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, Vishnu Bashyam, Hamed Akbari, Chiharu Sako, Elizabeth Mamourian, Jacob Till, Aseel Abdalla, Stephanie Yee, Zev Binder, Seyed Ali Nabavizadeh, Erica Carpenter, Christos Davatzikos, Stephen Bagley: Integration of a radiomic signature, clinical variables and plasma cell-free DNA in adult patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma predicts patient survival and improves disease stratification. Neuro-Oncology 22(Issue Supplement_2): ii151-ii152, Nov 2020.

Posters and Presentations

Lectures by Invitation

2023

Nabavizadeh A. Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Imaging: Towards Integrated Data-Driven Discovery, Neurosurgery Grand Round, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Nabavizadeh A. Anatomical Variations in Neuroradiology; what is important and what should be left alone, Spring 2023 Armenia Neuroradiology Course, Virtual

Nabavizadeh A. Application of Fluciclovine PET to imaging of tumor heterogeneity in high-grade gliomas and brain metastasis: role for diagnosis, targeted therapy, and translation into clinical practice, American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2023

Nabavizadeh A. Harnessing computational imaging, scalable cloud-based workflows, and multi-modal data analytics with interoperable software platforms in pediatric neuro-oncology; the road ahead for Children's Brain Tumor Network (CBTN),2023 SNO Neuro-Oncology Pediatric Research Conference, Washington DC

Nabavizadeh A.The Role of MR and Advanced Imaging for Primary Brain Tumor Diagnosis, Spring 2023 Armenia Neuroradiology Course, Virtual

Nabavizadeh A.Radio-phenotypes in Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma Can Predict Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Differentially Expressed Molecular Processes, Brain tumor summit for pediatric low grade glioma, Mission Bay Campus, UCSF, San Francisco

Nabavizadeh A. Amino Acid PET Imaging in Adult and Pediatric Brain Tumors, Are We Ready for Primetime? Radiology Grand Round, Weill Cornell Medicine

2022

Nabavizadeh A.PET Imaging in Neuro-oncology; Past, Present, and Future. 10th Neuro-Oncology Brain Tumors Symposium, Philadelphia

Nabavizadeh A. D3b Translational Imaging Research Unit (TIRU) project overview: precision imaging approaches to characterize pediatric brain tumors, D3b monthly presentation, Philadelphia

Nabavizadeh A.Current status of imaging workflow in pediatric neuro-oncology trials, lessons learned, and future directions. Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium Spring meeting, Memphis

Nabavizadeh A. Radiomic Imaging Subtypes of Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas (pLGGs), American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting, New York

Nabavizadeh A. Amino-acid metabolism in adult and pediatric glioma, opportunities for imaging and beyond, Penn Radiobiology & Imaging Retreat, Philadelphia

Nabavizadeh A.18F-fluciclovine PET and multi-parametric MRI to distinguish pseudoprogression from tumor progression in post-treatment glioblastoma, SNMMI annual meeting, Vancouver Aug, 2022 Principles of Clinical MRI practice: Procedures and Ethics, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Iranian chapter), Virtual

Nabavizadeh A. Liquid biopsy in neuro-oncology and How imaging can contribute. 15th Annual Meeting American Society of Functional Neuroradiology. Maui, Hawaii

Nabavizadeh A.Novel Tracers in Neuro-Oncology: Beyond FDG. 34th Annual Meeting of The Eastern Neuroradiological Society Burlington, Vermont

Nabavizadeh A. 8F-fluciclovine PET to distinguish pseudoprogression from tumor progression in post-treatment glioblastoma. 17th Meeting of the Ali Nabavizadeh, MD Page 8 European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO 2022). Vienna, Austria

Nabavizadeh A. Imaging of tumor microenvironment in pediatric neuro-oncology, current efforts and future directions. Children's Brain Tumor Network 2022 summit. Washington DC.

Nabavizadeh A.Computational imaging in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology: Moving Towards Integrated Data-Driven Discovery, visiting professorship, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nabavizadeh A. Imaging of Tumor Microenvironment in Neuro-oncology, Moving Towards Precision Medicine, visiting professorship, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nabavizadeh A. Amino Acid PET Imaging in Recurrent Brain Cancer, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) virtual webinar

2021

Nabavizadeh A. Integration of Imaging and liquid biopsy for tumor monitoring, prospect for pediatric neuro-oncology, Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC) spring meeting (Virtual meeting due to COVID)

Nabavizadeh A. [18F]Fluciclovine PET to distinguish pseudoprogression from tumor progression in post-treatment glioblastoma, Virtual SNO/NCI Joint Symposium: Targeting CNS Tumor Metabolism (Virtual meeting due to COVID)

Nabavizadeh A.Radiologic assessment: Current protocols and future directions in Glioblastoma. Focused Ultrasound Glioblastoma workshop, Virtual meeting due to COVID-19

Nabavizadeh A.MR Susceptibility Imaging for Detection of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Glioblastoma, Current and Future Directions in Neuro-Oncology, a Young Investigators Forum. Joint Event by Medscape-SNO (Virtual meeting due to COVID)

2020

Nabavizadeh A. Imaging and histopathologic correlates of plasma cell-free DNA concentration and circulating tumor DNA in adult patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma, American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting due to COVID)

Nabavizadeh A. Pattern analysis of dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MR imaging demonstrates tumor acidity in glioblastoma, American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting due to COVID)

Nabavizadeh A. Whole-Brain Brain Oxygen Metabolism in Adult Sickle-Cell Patients Using Two Different Quantitative MRI Approaches, American Society of Neuroradiology Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting due to COVID)

Nabavizadeh A.Overview of PET Imaging for Primary and Secondary Brain Tumors, Penn Neuro-Oncology Brain Tumors Symposium 2020

Nabavizadeh A.Precision imaging in pediatric brain tumors, radiogenomics, and beyond. Children's Brain Tumor network annual meeting Ali Nabavizadeh, MD Page 7

Nabavizadeh A.Precision imaging in neuro-oncology, Machine learning, and Radiogenomics. METACHOP Math, Engineering, Technology @ CHOP

Awards and Honors

2022, Certificate of Merit for Educational Exhibit, American Society of Neuroradiology

2022, Best Scientific Poster Award in Basic and Translational 

2021, Editor Recognition for Reviewers, Clinical Cancer Research

2017, McCabe pilot Award, "The Thomas B. McCabe and Jeannette E. Laws McCabe Fund"

2016, Recognition of scholarly activity, Journal of Neuro-Imaging

2016, "Image a Cure, Image(ine) Prevention Neuroradiology Fund" Scholar award, University of Pennsylvania

2015, Editor Recognition for outstanding reviewers, Emergency Radiology

2014, Penn Neuroradiology research award, University of Pennsylvania.

2014, Certificate of Merit in recognition of the excellence for educational exhibit, RSNA.

2008, Outstanding Radiology Resident Award (awarded by the Chancellor of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences).

2008, Researchers Excellence Award (awarded by the President of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences).

2009, Selection as a participant in the 2009 Introduction to Research for international young academics (IRIYA) program sponsored by the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA).

2007, Outstanding Radiology Resident Award (awarded by the Chancellor of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences).

2003, Outstanding MD dissertation award, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (awarded by the Dean of the School of Medicine).

Editorial and Academic Positions

Editorial Positions

2023-present, Peer Reviewer, Neuro-Oncology
2022-2023, Guest editor of special Issue "Role of Novel Imaging Technique in Brain Tumors" in Cancers, MDPI
2022-present, Peer Reviewer, Neuroradiology
2020-present, Peer Reviewer, RSNA Case Collection
2020-present, Peer Reviewer, American Journal of Roentgenology
2019-present, Peer Reviewer, Clinical Cancer Research
2019-present, Peer Reviewer, Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
2018-present, Peer Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
2018-present, Peer Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
2015-present, Peer Reviewer, Journal of Neurological Sciences
2015-present, Peer Reviewer, Emergency Radiology
2013-present, Peer Reviewer, American Journal of Neuroradiology
2009-present, Peer Reviewer, Journal of Neuroimaging

Leadership and Memberships

International

2020-present, Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO)
2009-present, European Society of Radiology
Radiological Society of North America

National

2022-present, American Society of Functional Neuroradiology
2022-present, The Eastern Neuroradiological Society
2019-present, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
2015-present, American Society of Neuroradiology
2012-present, American Society of Head and Neck Radiology
2009-present, Radiological Society of North America