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