Mehdi Djekidel MD

Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology; Assistant Fellowship Director of Nuclear Medicine

Biographical Info

Mehdi Djekidel MD is currently Assistant Professor in Diagnostic Radiology and Assistant Fellowship Director of Nuclear Medicine at Yale University school of Medicine/Yale New Haven Hospital. He has dual board certification in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine and completed his nuclear medicine training at the University of Michigan. He is committed to providing excellence in patient care in the nuclear medicine therapeutic and diagnostic arenas. His Internist background feeds his interest in improving techniques and finding novel diagnostic and therapeutic radiotracers that may impact oncological clinical practice. He has been looking into the added value of Hybrid SPECT-CT and PET-CT cameras. He is also a strong believer in appropriate multimodality imaging, where there is no panacea and only the right test ordered in the right patient for the right indication yields the best results. This goes in tandem with ongoing efforts of developing appropriateness criteria. He also understands the underutilization of nuclear medicine therapeutic strategies, although many of them have been shown to be cost-effective and yield good results in comparison to other alternatives and believes that a more widespread use of approved therapies would make them even more affordable. He also is interested in evaluating novel radiotracers and imaging quantifications in a manner that may predict the biological behavior of tumors and therefore adapt or modulate therapies in accordance with imaging biomarkers data.

Education & Training

M.D.

Algiers University (2001)

Resident

Oakwood Hospital Medical Center, Internal Medicine (2004 - 2007)

Fellow

University of Michigan, Radiology/Nuclear Medicine (2007 - 2009)

Board Certification

Internal Medicine, Board Certified  (2007)

Board Certification

Nuclear Medicine, Board Certified  (2009)