Dr. Abubacker Zakir Ali

• Worked in Dept, of Nucl. Medicine, Apollo Hospital for 3 months ( Jan to March, 2003)
• Worked in Dept, of Nucl. Medicine, CARE Hospital, Banjara Hills,Hyderabad from April, 2003 to Feb, 2006 .
• Worked in Dept, of Nuclear Medicine, Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad from Feb, 2006 to Oct, 2006.
• Presently working as Consultant & Head of Dept, of Nuclear Medicine & PET-CT, Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital & Res. Inst., Hyderabad from Nov, 2006 till now.

Memberships:

• Executive member of the Executive Committee of the ANMPI for the years 2010 & 2011
• State representative of the SNM(I) Southern Chapter for the year 2010 & 2011
• Treasurer of the ANMPI body from 2011 until now.

Fellowships & Training:

• Underwent training in PET-CT & PET radiopharmacy at Apollo Hospital,Hyderabad for 1 month in Feburary, 2007.
• Training in PET-CT at Jaslok Hospital in October, 2009
• Training in PET-CT at Tata Memorial Hospital in October, 2009.
• Underwent training on advanced PET-CT procedures at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA for two weeks in August, 2013.

• Best paper award for the paper “Role of Tc99m EC in renal scintigraphy” presented at National Nephrology Conference at Tirupathi.
• Best paper award for the paper “Reproducibility of parameters of LV function using QGS, ECT & 4DM-SPECT Quantification programs of gated myocardial SPECT: A multicentric study” presented at SNM(I) Southern Chapter at Trivandrum in 2004.
• ARCCNM award for the paper “Role of Tc99m-DTPA Renogram in Microalbuminuric, normotensive patients with type II Diabetes” presented in 9th World Congress of Nuclear Medicine & Biology held at Seoul, Korea from 22nd to 27th October, 2006.
• Presented a poster titled “CT and PET-CT in the evaluation of tumor thrombus” at the annual conference of IRIA-AP state chapter in KREST on 25th & 26th October, 2014 and got 2 prize for the best poster
• Presented a paper titled “Extranodal involvement in Non-Hodgkin’s and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma-An analysis of PET-CT and CT imaging findings” at the annual conference of IRIA-AP state chapter in KREST on 25th & 26th October, 2014 and got 3rd prize for the best paper.
• Executive member of the Executive Committee of the ANMPI for the years 2010 & 2011
• State representative of the SNM(I) Southern Chapter for the year 2010 & 2011

• Treasurer of the ANMPI body from 2011 until now

Achievements:

• Was instrumental in setting up of the radioiodine therapy ward at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad in 2006
• Key person in setting up of the Nuclear Medicine Dept at BIACH & RI in 2007 which included gamma camera & radioiodine therapy ward facilities
• Key person in setting up of the PET-CT & Cyclotron facilities at BIACH & RI
• Presented many research papers & guest lectures at various conferences both nationally & internationally.
• Has several publications as well.
• Conducted CME on “Advances in Nuclear Oncology” held on March 9, 2008 at Hotel Fortune Katriya, Hyderabad
• Was the Organizing Secretary for the 9^th Annual Conference of ANMPI which was held at Hyderabad from September 30 to October 2, 2011.
• Co-sponsoror in the 1^st Endocrinology exhibition titled “Hormones & Health Expo” conducted on December 10, 2011.
• Conducted CME on “Recent Trends in Management of Neuroendocrine tumors and Prostate cancers” held on August 23, 2015 at ITC Grand Kakatiya Hotel, Hyderabad.
• First person in the twin state to start Lu-177 DOTATATE therapy for neuroendocrine tumor since February, 2014
• First person in the twin state to start Lu-177 PSMA therapy for prostate cancer.
• First person in the twin state to start Ga-68 PSMA scan for prostate cancer.
• Second person in the twin state to start Ga-68 DOTANOC scan for neuroendocrine tumors