consultant nuclear medicine and radiation safety officer
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Curriculum Vitae
I) PERSONAL DATA:
Name: Sami AJMI
Date of birth: The 5th of October 1966, Sousse (Tunisia)
Nationality: Tunisian.
Marital status: Married, three children.
Address: Rue Moez Ibn Badis ; App C2, Khezama Ouest, Sousse, Tunisia.
Telephone: +216-********
FAX: +216-********
Electronic mail: *********@*******.***
Languages spoken: Arabic, French, English
II) CURRENT POSITION:
Consultant Nuclear Medicine.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sahloul’s hospital Sousse Tunisia.
Professor of Biophysics
Laboratory of biophysics; Faculty of Medicine; Sousse, Tunisia.
III) TITLES:
National diploma of doctorate in medicine: Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, Tunisia 1994.
Tunisian speciality Diploma in Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine: 1999.
French board of Nuclear Medicine: University of Clermont-Ferrand, France : 1999.
Associated Professor in Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine: 2000-2006.
Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, TUNISIA.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sahloul’s Hospital Sousse, TUNISIA.
Professor in Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine: since 2006
Faculty of medicine, University of SOUSSE, TUNISIA.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sahloul’s Hospital Sousse, TUNISIA.
Radiation Safety Officer: 2013
King Abdullah City; Riyadh; KSA
IV) GRADUATE TRAINING:
Medical School : 5 years (Oct 1985 – Sep 1990)
Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, Tunisia.
Internship : 2 years (Oct 1990 – Oct 1992)
Department of oncology and hematology
Department of urology
Department of pediatrics
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Nuclear Medicine
Medical doctor diploma :
Date: April 1994, Medical Faculty of Sousse Tunisia.
Subject: Pediatric Nuclear Medicine.
Mention: Very honourable with congratulations of the jury and proposal for the Tunisian Thesis Award.
Residency: 4 years (Jul. 1995 – Jun. 1999)
Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine.
Speciality diploma:
Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, September 1999.
Associated professor in Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine:
7 years (2000-2006).
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sahloul’s Hospital of Sousse.
Laboratory of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse.
Professor in Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine: Since 2006.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sahloul’s Hospital of Sousse.
Laboratory of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse.
V) ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
Education of biophysics for the students of medicine:
I was involved in the education of biophysics for the students of the faculties of medicine of Sousse, Djibouti and Nouakchott. This education includes essentially:
The Physical basis of the action of ionizing radiation.
The physical basis of medical imaging including conventional radiology, tomodensitometry, ultrasonography and nuclear medicine.
Biophysics of Hearing and Functional exploration of the auditory system.
Geometric Optics and functional visual explorations.
Biophysics of blood circulation.
Analytical methods in biophysics.
Surface tension and capillarity.
Colligative Properties of Solutions.
Education of Nuclear Medicine for Radiologist technicians:
I was involved in teaching nuclear medicine for radiology technicians. This education includes:
Instrumentation in nuclear Medicine
Quality control in Nuclear Medicine
Clinical applications of Nuclear Medicine.
Direction of thesis for obtaining the diploma of doctorate in medicine.
Publication of many papers concerning clinical application of nuclear medicine.
VI) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Department of Nuclear Medicine – Sahloul’s Hospital Sousse; Tunisia:
Since January 2000 I am working in the department of nuclear medicine of Sahloul’s hospital of Sousse. Approximately 4000 nuclear medicine procedures are performed annually in this department, using a wide variety of diagnostic techniques including essentially:
Bone scintigraphy
Thyroid scintigraphy
Gastroesophageal scintigraphy
Gastric Emptying and bleeding Scintigraphy
Myocardial scintigraphy
Renal scintigraphy and isotopic cystography.
Parathyroid scintigraphy
Adrenal scintigraphy
Therapeutic activities concern essentially the treatment of thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism with iodine 131 and the treatment of hyperalgic bone metastasis with samarium 53.
Department of Nuclear Medicine - Anticancer center Jean Perrin Clermont Ferrand; France:
I have performed a training work of two years in the department of nuclear medicine of the anticancer center of Clermont Ferrand. This was for me an opportunity to provide further experience in nuclear oncology and cardiology and to achieve training in a wide variety of new diagnostic procedures including essentially:
Positron Emission Tomography
Isotopic detection of sentinel lymph node
Use of Benzamides in the diagnosis of melanoma metastasis
White cell scintigraphy.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Security Forces Hospital Program, Riyadh, Saudia Arabia.
From July 2010 to April 2015 I was recruited as consultant of nuclear medicine in the department of medical imaging in security forces hospital of Riyadh.
In 2013 I was appointed as radioprotection safety officer in the department of medical imaging.
Department of Nuclear Medicine – Sahloul’s Hospital Sousse; Tunisia:
Since May 2015 until now
VIII) PUBLISHED PAPERS:
1) Autotransplantation of splenic tissue after splenic injury. Scintigraphic evaluation.
Ajmi S, Hassine H, Essabbah H.
Clin Nucl Med. 2003 May;28(5):402.
2) Large diaphragmatic defect as the cause of hydrothorax in a cirrhotic patient: demonstration with peritoneal scintigraphy and magnetic resonance imaging.
Ajmi S, Hassine H, Arifa N, Karmani M, Guezguez M, Elajmi S, Essabbah H.
Magn Reson Imaging. 2004 Apr;22(3):431-3.
3) Isotopic exploration of hepatic hydrothorax: ten cases.
Ajmi S, Hassine H, Guezguez M, Elajmi S, Mrad Dali K, Karmani M, Zayane A, Essabbah H.
Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2004 May;28(5):462-6.
4) Bleeding Meckel's diverticulum in a child diagnosed by Technetium 99m scan.
Ajmi S, Sahnoun L, Boujelbene N, Sriha B, Essabbah H.
J Chir (Paris). 2005 Jul-Aug;142(4):244-6.
5) Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma presenting as cervical lymph node metastasis. Interest of tetrofosmin scintigraphy and lymph node thyroglobulin measurement.
Ajmi S, Hassine H, Sfar R, Grouz Z, Guezguez M, Adelkefi M, Essabbah H.
Rev Laryngol Otol Rhinol (Bord). 2006;127(3):179-82.
6) Role of the peritoneopleural pressure gradient in the genesis of hepatic hydrothorax. An isotopic study.
Ajmi S, Sfar R, Nouira M, Souguir A, Jmaa A, Golli L, Fredj MB, Essabbah H.
Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2008 Aug-Sep;32(8-9):729-33.
7) Ajmi S, Trimeche S, Nouira M, Sfar R, Trabelsi A, Essabbah H.
Spindle epithelial tumor with thymus-like differentiation of the thyroid.
Clin Nucl Med. 2008 Dec;33(12):887-8.
8) Ajmi S, Ben Ali K, Guezguez M, Sfar R, Nouira M.
Captopril renography as a prognostic factor in obstructive hydronephrosis with preserved renal function.
Rev Esp Med Nucl. 2010 Jan-Feb;29(1):20-4.
9) Ajmi S, Sfar R, Trimeche S, Ben Ali K, Nouira M.
Scintigraphic findings in hungry bone syndrome following parathyroidectomy.
Rev Esp Med Nucl. 2010 Mar-Apr;29(2):81-3.
10) Ajmi S, Ben Ali K, Guezguez M, Sfar R, Nouira M.
Captopril renography as a prognostic factor in obstructive hydronephrosis with preserved renal function.
Rev Esp Med Nucl. 2010 Jan-Feb;29(1):20-4.
11) Ajmi S, Ben Ali K, Ben Fredj M, Ghannouchi N, Khalifa M, Letaief A.
Tc-99m and I-131 uptake in widespread bone metastases from undetectable digestive adenocarcinoma.
Clin Nucl Med. 2011 Nov;36(11):1020-2.
VIII) DIRECTION OF MEDICAL THESES:
Role of parathyroid scintigraphy in hyperparathyroid disease. Thesis of doctorate in medicine; Faculty of Meddice of Sousse, Number 1820/2003, presented by Dr Imen Youssef, 13-6-2003.
Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. About 53 cases. Thesis of doctorate in medicine; Faculty of Meddice of Sousse, Number 2148/2005, presented by Dr Noureddine boujelbene, 29-10-2005.
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