Dima A. Hammoud, M.D.

The Hammoud lab focuses on the development of preclinical, translational, and clinical molecular imaging applications to improve the understanding of the pathophysiology of infection and to provide reliable imaging biomarkers of infectious diseases. Current research in the laboratory focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of HIV in the brain and periphery, and on the development and validation of novel fungal infection-specific imaging biomarkers in animal models and patients, using non-invasive molecular imaging techniques, mainly positron emission tomography (PET). Another interest of the lab is molecular imaging of high-consequence viral infections such as Ebola, Nipah and Lassa viruses, in collaboration with the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF), a biosafety level (BSL)-2 to BSL-4 biomedical research facility based in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Dr. Hammoud is senior investigator and deputy director of the Center for Infectious Disease Imaging (CIDI), a joint initiative between Radiology and Imaging Sciences (RIS) at the NIH Clinical Center and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Dr. Hammoud earned an MD degree at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. After her diagnostic radiology residency, she completed two fellowships and then joined the Neuroradiology faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as Assistant Professor. In 2006, she joined the Neuroradiology faculty at NIH. Dr Hammoud is board-certified in diagnostic imaging by the American Board of Radiology, and has completed fellowships in neuroradiology and PET imaging. She currently serves as member of the intramural NIH PET Steering Committee member, the Molecular Imaging Subcommittee of the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) at RSNA, the Leadership Committee at the "Women In Molecular Imaging Network" (WIMIN), WMIS and as co-chair of the "Imaging of Infections interest group" (IOI), WMIS.