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TRA Physicians
Anthony E. Larhs, M.D.Anthony E. Larhs, M.D.

American Board of Radiology (ABR) 1998
American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) 1999
Certification Board Nuclear Cardiology (CBNC) 2000
American Boards of Science in Nuclear Medicine (ABSNM)
(Physics and Instrumentation) 2001
International Society of Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) 2001
ACLS Re-certified 2001

Education and training

Faculty of Sciences
University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
1987-1989

Medical School
University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
1989-1993

General Internship
University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
1993-1994

Diagnostic Radiology Residency
University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
1994-1998

Nuclear Medicine Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA,
1998-12/99

Nuclear Cardiology Preceptorship
Professor Cerquiera
Georgetown University
2001

Nuclear Cardiology Preceptorship
Professor Corbett
University of Michigan
2002

CT Coronary Angiography Preceptorship
Dr. Dowe
Atlantic City Imaging Center
2005

Current positions/duties

Focus on image interpretation of Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology and Infection diseases. Practice that relies on a multimodality approach of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and multimodality image fusion

Director of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Positron Emission Tomography
TRA Medical Imaging

Radiation Safety Officer
TRA Medical Imaging
Catholic Health Initiatives hospitals

Secretary/Treasurer
Washington State Radiological Society

Recent lectures and grand rounds

Breast Scintigraphy
Tacoma General Hospital
Tacoma, WA
June 2001

Current PET Technology
Second University Hospital
Beijing, China
September 2001

Management of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma (DTC)
Rui Jin Hospital
Shanghai, China
September 2001

PET – Current Applications
St. Joseph Medical Center
SJMC & SJH & SCH,
Tacoma, WA
Oct 2001

PET in Oncology
Puget Sound Medical Association
Whistler, Canada
January 2002

PET vs. Morphological Imaging
NW Chapter ARNA
Tacoma, WA
April 2002

Bone Densitometry
Family Practice UW,
Tacoma, WA
May 2002

Radioablation of DTC
Tacoma General Hospital
Tacoma, WA
November 2002

Management of DTC
CNMT Society of Puget Sound
Dec 2002
PET – Lund Carcinoma
Madigan Army Medical Center
Fort Lewis, WA
December 2002

PET in Clinical Oncology
Tacoma, WA (with Frank Senecal, M.D.)
April 2003

FDG-PET – Applications
The Academy of Internal Medicine
Puget Sound
November 2003

Medical Imaging in USA
Moscow University,
Moscow, Russia
April 2004

Advances in Oncology Imaging
Washington State Radiological Society
March 2005

Fdg-PET Cardiac Viability – Cardiology Grand Rounds
April 2005

PET Imaging for Primary Care: Alzheimer’s disease
April 2005

SPECT / PET of the Heart – Cardiac Imaging
TRA Medical Imaging
October 2005

"PET (PET-CT): What the Referring Physician Needs to Know"
Grand Rounds, Franciscan Health System, Tacoma, WA
January 2006

"Update on PET Scanning"
Tacoma Academy of Internal Medicine, Tacoma, WA
January 2007

Active professional memberships

  • Society of Nuclear Medicine of North America (SNM)
  • European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
  • Society of Nuclear Medicine of Australia & New Zealand
  • Member of Pacific Northwest and Greater New York Chapters of SNM
  • Member of Councils of Oncology Diagnosis & Therapy, Instrumentation, Correlative Imaging, PET Center of Excellence and Cardiovascular Imaging of Society of Nuclear Medicine of North America
  • The International Society of Clinical Densitometry (ISCD)
  • The Academy of Molecular Imaging, division Institute of Clinical PET (AMI)
  • The National Council of Healthcare Advisors (biomedical technology)
  • American College of Nuclear Physicians (ACNP)
  • American College of Nuclear Cardiology (ACNC)
  • Founding Member Society Cardiovascular Computed Community
  • People to People Ambassador Program - International
  • American College of Radiology (ACR)
  • Washington State Radiological Society (WSRS)
  • Washington State Medical Association (WSMA)
  • Pierce County Medical Association (PCMA)
  • American Medical Association (AMA)
  • Radiology Advocacy Alliance (RAA)
  • Recognized/listed in Marquis ‘Who’s Who In Medicine and Healthcare’
  • PET Center of Excellence Society of Nuclear Medicine

Continuing medical education

2007

International Conference of Nuclear Cardiology
Prague, Czech Republic
April 2007

2006

European Association of Nuclear Medicine - annual meeting
Athens, Greece
October 2006

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology - annual meeting
Montreal, Canada
September, 2006

Universitatsmedizin Berlin, PET-CT Nuclearmedizin Klinik
Berlin, Germany
July 2006

Society of Nuclear Medicine NA - annual meeting
San Diego, CA
June 2006

Hybrid PET-CT, SPECT-CT Symposium
Seattle, WA
June 2006

CT-Coronary Angiography for the Cardiologist (ASNC)
Milwaukee, WI
April 2006

Philips, PET-CT Time of Flight
Cleveland, OH
January 2006

2005

PNW Radiology Symposium
Vancouver, Canada
February 2005

PET Symposium & Radiation Therapy Planning
Las Vegas, NV
March 2005

Preceptorship CT Coronary Angiography
Atlantic City, NJ
May 2005

Society of Nuclear Medicine
Annual Meeting
Toronto, Canada
June 2005

American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC)
Seattle, WA
September 2005

European Association of Nuclear Medicine – annual meeting
Istanbul, Turkey
October 2005

2004

Cardiac PET Imaging Symposium
Phoenix, AZ
January 2004

People Ambassador Program
St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia
April 2004

European Association of Nuclear Medicine – annual meeting
Helsinki, Finland
September 2004

Pacific NW Chapter of Nuclear Medicine
Vancouver, BC
November 2004

2003

European Association of Nuclear Medicine annual meeting
Amsterdam, Holland
August 2003

16th Organ Imaging Congress
Toronto, Canada
September 2003

Practical PET Imaging
Las Vegas, NV
October 2003

2002

Council Strategy for Zevalin™
Dallas, TX
January 2002

Pierce County Med Society
Whistler, Canada
January 2002

AEI – Medical Update
Maui, HI
February 2002

Society of Nuclear Medicine – winter meeting
Scottsdale, AZ
February 2001

International Society of Clinical Densitometry – annual meeting
Atlanta, GA
February 2002

Council Strategy for Zevalin™
San Diego, CA
March 2002

PET Imaging
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
April 2002

Molecular Imaging with PET
Los Angeles, CA
June 2002

American College of Nuclear Cardiology
Seattle, WA
October 2002

Academy of Molecular Imaging
San Diego, CA
November 2002

Nuclear Cardiology (4DM-SPECT)
University of Michigan
December 2002

2001

Pierce County Med Society
Whistler, Canada
January 2001

Nuclear Cardiology
Georgetown University
Washington DC
January 2001

‘Leaders in Nuclear Medicine’ Delegation
Neotect™– Expert Exchange
San Diego, CA
January 2001

UCSF Radiology Review
San Francisco, CA
February 2001

Pacific NW Chapter Nuclear Medicine
Washington
March 2001

Society of Nuclear Medicine
Annual Meeting
Toronto, Canada
June 2001

International Society of Clinical Densitometry Annual Meeting
Birmingham, AL
July 2001

European Association of Nuclear Medicine annual meeting
Annual Meeting
Naples, Italy
August 2001

ADAC Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
September 2001

People Ambassador Program
First Nuclear Medicine delegation to China
Beijing and Shanghai, China
October 2001