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Vaseem Chengazi

Title	Associate Professor
Institution	School of Medicine and Dentistry
Department	Imaging Sciences
Address	University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 648 Rochester NY 14642

Awards And Honors

1980	-	1990	Merit Scholarship awarded by the Fauji Foundation
1980	-	1985	Quaid-e-Azam Talent Scholarship
1980			Best Graduate, Pakistan Air Force Air Base Intermediate College, Sargodha, Pakistan
1980			Chief of Air Staff Gold Medal
1993			Merit Scholarship for Ph.D. studies
1997			Awarded Outstanding Researcher (EB-1) status by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, for grant of permanent residence
1998	-	1999	The Shu-Ren Lin Award, for continued excellence in resident teaching, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
1998			Alavi-Mandell Prize, Education and Research Foundation of the Society of Nuclear Medicine
2005	-	2006	The Shu-Ren Lin Award, for continued excellence in senior faculty teaching, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Selected Publications

Smith MT, Perlis ML, Chengazi VU, Soeffing J, McCann U. NREM sleep cerebral blood flow before and after behavior therapy for chronic primary insomnia: preliminary single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) data. Sleep Med. 2005 Jan; 6(1):93-4.

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Drummond SP, Smith MT, Orff HJ, Chengazi V, Perlis ML. Functional imaging of the sleeping brain: review of findings and implications for the study of insomnia. Sleep Med Rev. 2004 Jun; 8(3):227-42.

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Garcia-Morales F, Seo GS, Chengazi V, Monu JU. Collar osteophytes: a cause of false-positive findings in bone scans for hip fractures. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2003 Jul; 181(1):191-4.

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Friedberg JW, Chengazi V. PET scans in the staging of lymphoma: current status. Oncologist. 2003; 8(5):438-47.

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Smith MT, Perlis ML, Chengazi VU, Pennington J, Soeffing J, Ryan JM, Giles DE. Neuroimaging of NREM sleep in primary insomnia: a Tc-99-HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography study. Sleep. 2002 May 1; 25(3):325-35.

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Garcia-Morales F, Chengazi VU, O'Mara RE. Nocardia brain abscess identification with Tl-201 SPECT. Clin Nucl Med. 2001 Nov; 26(11):981-2.

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McMenemin RM, Hilditch TE, Dempsey MF, Reed NS. Thyroid stunning after (131)I diagnostic whole-body scanning. J Nucl Med. 2001 Jun; 42(6):986-7.

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Sarmiento AJ, Sarmiento FM, Sarmiento AH. What is the best strategy to treat and study patients after near-total thyroidectomy? J Nucl Med. 2001 Mar; 42(3):531-3.

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Britton KE, Feneley MR, Jan H, Chengazi VU, Granowska M. Prostate cancer: the contribution of nuclear medicine. BJU Int. 2000 Jul; 86 Suppl 1:135-42.

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Gottlieb RH, Zusman E, Hartley DF, Rubens DJ, Voci SL, Robinette W, Melendez L, Morris TW, Ojha S, Chengazi V, Erturk E, Messing EM. Effect of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on the Doppler waveform in dogs with renal artery stenosis. J Ultrasound Med. 1999 Jul; 18(7):481-7.

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Yoo KS, Chengazi VU, O'Mara RE. Thyroglossal duct cyst with papillary carcinoma in an 11-year-old girl. J Pediatr Surg. 1998 May; 33(5):745-6.

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Kuikka JT, Britton KE, Chengazi VU, Savolainen S. Future developments in nuclear medicine instrumentation: a review. Nucl Med Commun. 1998 Jan; 19(1):3-12.

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Stalteri MA, Mather SJ, Belinka BA, Coughlin DJ, Chengazi VU, Britton KE. Site-specific conjugation and labelling of prostate antibody 7E11C5.3 (CYT-351) with technetium-99m. Eur J Nucl Med. 1997 Jun; 24(6):651-4.

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Chengazi VU, Feneley MR, Ellison D, Stalteri M, Granowski A, Granowska M, Nimmon CC, Mather SJ, Kirby RS, Britton KE. Imaging prostate cancer with technetium-99m-7E11-C5.3 (CYT-351). J Nucl Med. 1997 May; 38(5):675-82.

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Feneley MR, Chengazi VU, Kirby RS, Nimmon CC, Granowska M, Mather SJ, Ellison D, Granowski AR, Britton KE. Prostatic radioimmunoscintigraphy: preliminary results using technetium-labelled monoclonal antibody, CYT-351. Br J Urol. 1996 Mar; 77(3):373-81.

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