Dr. Jacob Dubroff: How to Read a PET Scan for Alzheimer’s Disease
June 5 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
Free
This Live Talk is produced by Being Patient with support provided by the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging and Eli Lilly and Company
Join us Thursday, June 5th, at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET for a Live Talk with University of Pennsylvania radiologist Dr. Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD. In the talk, Dubroff will share his research using positron emission tomography — commonly known as a PET scan — to study neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Dubroff will discuss the role of PET scans in dementia diagnosis, what an abnormal scan looks like, and the kinds of questions patients should raise with their physicians when undergoing a PET scan.
Dubroff is an associate professor of radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and an attending radiologist across Penn Medicine hospitals. His clinical practice focuses on utilizing medical imaging technologies, such as PET scans and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), to aid doctors in detecting brain disease pathologies. The goal of this work is to better understand neurodegenerative diseases and drug abuse, particularly nicotine dependence and opioid use disorder.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging will hold its 2025 Patient Education Day on June 22, available both in person in New Orleans and livestreamed via YouTube. The event will explore the role of nuclear medicine in diagnosing, managing, and treating disease, with a special focus on Alzheimer’s disease, prostate cancer, and neuroendocrine tumors. Dubroff will be speaking at the Alzheimer’s breakout session during the event.
RSVP to learn more about PET imaging and Dubroff’s research on dementia.
Dr. Jacob Dubroff: What is a PET Scan and How Can it Reveal Alzheimer’s?
Join us Thursday, June 5th, at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET for a Live Talk with University of Pennsylvania radiologist Dr. Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD. In the talk, Dubroff will share his research using positron emission tomography — commonly known as a PET scan — to study neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's. Dubroff will discuss the role of PET scans in dementia diagnosis, what an abnormal scan looks like, and the kinds of questions patients should raise with their physicians when undergoing a PET scan.