Dr. Iagaru was recruited as assistant professor of radiology in September 2010, with a subspecialty in nuclear medicine. He completed medical school at Carol Davila University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania, and an internship at Drexel University College of Medicine, Graduate Hospital, in the Department of Medicine. He began his residency at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, in the Division of Nuclear Medicine, where he was the chief resident. Dr. Iagaru finished his residency and completed a PET/CT fellowship at Stanford University's School of Medicine in the Division of Nuclear Medicine. His research interests include whole-body MRI and PET/CT for early cancer detection; clinical translation of novel PET radiopharmaceuticals; radioimmunotherapy; optical imaging of breast cancer; as well as PET/CT imaging for thyroid, breast, cervical and ovarian cancers, melanoma, lymphoma, and sarcomas.
