Thomas Hope, MD

Thomas Hope, MD, is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Strategy in the Department of Radiology. He also serves as the Director of Molecular Therapy. He serves as Chief of Nuclear Medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and as chair of the Cancer Center’s Molecular Imaging & Radionuclide Therapy Site Committee. In 2007, he received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and he completed a one-year internship at Kaiser Permanente, followed by a 2012 a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He then completed a clinical fellowship in Body MRI and Nuclear Medicine at Stanford. Dr. Hope’s main research focus is on novel imaging agents and therapies, particularly in prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. He lead the development of Ga-68 PSMA-11, which subsequently led to the approval of this drug by the FDA. He has combined his interest in MR imaging with PET in the simultaneous modality PET/MRI, helping lead the development of the clinical PET/MRI program. Additionally he leads the PRRT (peptide receptor radionuclide therapy) program for neuroendocrine tumors and PSMA Radioligand Therapy at UCSF.

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