Lionel S Zuckier, MD

Dr. Lionel Zucker is a dual-trained diagnostic radiologist and nuclear medicine physician with a primary focus on nuclear medicine and molecular imaging and therapy. He is a professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and director of theranostics within the Division of Nuclear Medicine.

Dr. Zuckier served as division head of nuclear medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, where he oversaw the introduction of the prostate cancer theranostic program and was involved in phase I trials of a novel peptide imaging agent. His group also applied its expertise in lung imaging of pulmonary embolism to suggest revised protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic which were ad...