Short Bio

Ora Israel is Emeritus Professor of Imaging at the Rappaport School of Medicine, the Technion, in Haifa, Israel. In 2018 she retired from clinical duties and from her 18-years long position as director of Nuclear Medicine at the Rambam Health Care Campus. During her professional career, over more than four decades, her main scientific interests included multimodality tumor imaging, in vivo radionuclide quantitation, and imaging of infection and inflammation. She has been involved in the development of hybrid imaging, SPECT/CT and PET/CT, since its beginnings in the late 1990s and in recent decades in developing guidelines for its clinical implementation. She is the author of four textbooks on Hybrid Imaging and over 220 scientific articles. She was the first woman Professor at the Rappaport School of Medicine and one of the 30 founding members of the Israeli Academy of Science in Medicine. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. She serves as consultant for Molecular Imaging for General Electric and as an expert for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In 2018, she was elected as Fellow of the SNMMI (USA), the first, and so far, single, non-North American to receive this honor. In 2020 she received the Honorary Membership of the EANM. She was also awarded the 2020 General Council in Nuclear Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2021 Correlative Imaging Barry Siegel Lectureship of the SNMMI.