Paul Thomas

Dr Paul Thomas is Assistant Director of the Queensland PET Service, based at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. He is a consultant nuclear medicine physician and PET specialist who undertook fellowship training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and PET training at the Clinical PET Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. The Queensland PET service synthesises specialty PET tracers to interrogate tumour biology including proliferation, somatostatin receptor and hypoxia tracers, and is the only PET centre in the country to synthesise FDOPA, a superior tracer to conventional FDG PET for imaging glioma.

He is involved in HNMRC funded trials examining FDOPA PET and advanced MR imaging of human gliomas, as well as multiplexed PET and MR imaging of gliomas in animal models. One of the collaboration partners is the eHealth group of CSIRO with whom he is developing advanced analytical models of assessing brain tumour growth and therapy response.