Personnel

Presently, the UPMC PET Facility comprises a dedicated full time research staff of approximately 25, including nine radiology faculty members, five chemistry staff, five data analysts, a systems administrator, computer programmer, three nuclear medicine technologists, and one nurse.

Facility Director

James Mountz, MD, PhD
Director of Neuro-Nuclear Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Faculty Support

N. Scott Mason, PhD
Radiochemist and Assistant Professor of Radiology

Charles Laymon, PhD
Physicist and Assistant Professor of Radiology

Technicians

Brian Lopresti
Physicist and Instructor of Radiology

James Ruszkiewicz
PET Facility manager

Facility Consultant:

Chester Mathis PhD
Professor of Radiology, Senior Chemist, and Director of the PET Neuroscience program