Our Staff

Fabio Almeida M.D. Medical Director

Dr. Fabio Almeida completed a residency and fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at the University of San Francisco. He is certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine and the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology. Dr. Almeida was in private practice before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona in 2005, where he participated in the early implementation of cross modality image fusion (SPECT, PET, CT and MRI) and PET/CT.

Dr. Almeida’s research focus is applied medical informatics with emphasis on imaging and networking systems, optimization of fusion technology and volumetric tumor assessment for radiation therapy planning. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology, Director of Nuclear Medicine for the UofA University Medical Center in Tucson, and currently, Director of the Southwest PET institute - an affiliate of the University of Arizona Telemedicine Program, and Co-Director for the Nuclear Oncology/PET Fellowship Program.

Lisa S. Gobar M.D.

Dr. Lisa S. Gobar graduated from Albany Medical College , and completed a residency in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Nebraska. After a Fellowship in Positron Emission Tomography, she became Medical Director of the Center for Metabolic Imaging ( PET Center ) of Creighton University Medical Center. Dr. Gobar joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 2004. Her research focus continues to be the imaging and treatment of malignancies. A joint effort with Dr. Tom Miller focuses on lymphoma, the role of PET-FDG in predicting response to therapy and radioimmunotherapy with anti-CD20 antibodies in follicular NHL. Another interest is the specificity of PET-FDG imaging in the nodules of coccidioidomycosis.