Abdelhamid H. Elgazzar, MD, FCAP, is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Kuwait. He graduated in 1973 from the School of Medicine, University of Cairo, Egypt and trained in Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita and in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Pathology (Anatomic and Clinical) and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Elgazzar is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists. He has served as an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and as Chief of Nuclear Medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA. He has received awards from several international professional organizations.

Dr. Elgazzar acts as a reviewer for several journals. He has edited or authored seven books and over 130 peer-reviewed papers. He serves as a referee for various peer-reviewed medical journals worldwide. Ismet Sarikaya , MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Kuwait, Faculty of Medicine. She is a 1990 graduate of the School of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. She subsequently trained in Nuclear Medicine at University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD, and Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey, and in PET/CT and Nuclear Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. She is board certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.

Dr. Sarikaya has served in various academic institutes as an Assistant Professor in Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, and Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey, as an Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and as an Associate Professor/Professor at Baskent University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has authored/co-authored 2 book chapters, 36 articles, 44 congress abstracts, and 2 Nuclear Medicine modules for the ACR-Continuous Professional Improvement program.