Ismael Mena

Ismael Mena, MD, (d. 15 February 2015) specialized in Nuclear Medicine. He was a Professor Emeritus of the UCLA School of Medicine; Doctor Honoris Causa of the Auvergne University, France; and received honor distinctions from the Association of Latin American Societies of Biology and Nuclear Medicine (ALASBIMN) in 2002 (Santiago, Chile) and 2005 (Montevideo, Uruguay). He was particularly interested in using the latest nuclear medicine imaging to measure functional brain flow in patients with brain degenerative diseases.

He is one of the authors of the 2011 case definition, International Consensus Criteria.

Articles

 * 2015, Obituary