Cancers Treated:
Specializing In:
- Genitourinary Imaging
- CT Guided Biopsy Procedures
- CT, MRI and Ultrasound Imaging of the Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis
- Whole Body PET/CT Imaging
- Nuclear Medicine
Research Interests:
- Disorders of the Kidneys
- Prostate Carcinoma
- PET/CT Oncology
- Health Policy
Positions
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Assistant Professor of Oncology
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
- Assistant Professor of Radiology
- Assistant Professor of Nuclear Medicine
Background
Education and Training
- MD - University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- BS - Purdue University, Genetic Biology, West Lafayette, IN
Residency
- General Surgery Internship – The University of Chicago Hospitals, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Additional Training in General Surgery and Urology – Long Island Jewish Medical Center- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY
- Diagnostic Radiology – University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Fellowship
- Abdominal Imaging Radiology, Cleveland Clinic
- Nuclear Medicine/ PET, SUNY Buffalo
Board Certification
- Diagnostic Radiology, American Board of Radiology
- Nuclear Medicine, American Board of Nuclear Medicine
Professional Memberships
- Alpha Chi Sigma
- American College of Nuclear Medicine Board of Directors
- American College of Radiology
- American College of Radiology Council
- American Medical Association
- American Medical Association Foundation Honor Fund Founding Board
- Medical Society of the County of Erie BOD (New York State)
- Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY)
- MSSNY Organized Medical Staff Section Governing Council
- New York State Radiological Society Board of Directors
- Radiological Society of North America
- Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
- SNMMI Correlative Imaging Council Board of Directors
- SNNMI Therapy Center of Excellence
Honors & Awards
- 2015-present- Castle Connolly- America’s Top Doctor Awardee
- 2025, 2022 - ACNM President’s Award for Outstanding Service to the American College of Nuclear Medicine
- 2021 - Distinguished Fellowship in The American College of Radiology (FACR)
- 2018 - American College of Nuclear Medicine Service Recognition Award: Service in the Office of President
- 2017, 2016 - Collimator Award for Teaching Excellence, SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine Residency in Nuclear Medicine
- 2012 - Distinguished Fellowship in The American College of Nuclear Medicine (FACNM)
Publications
Hurwitz M, Buscombe JR, Jacene HA, Klitzke AK, Lamonica D, Lu Y, Pryma DA, Rohren EM, Speer TW, Subramaniam RM, Thompson HM, Tomblyn MB, Wong WW, Xiao Y, Banks KP, Brown RKJ. ACR-ACNM-ASTRO-SNMMI Practice Parameter for the Performance of Therapy with Radium-223. Am J Clin Oncol. 2020 Aug;43(8):539-544. doi: 10.1097/COC.0000000000000702. PMID: 32520788.
Palestro CJ, Clark A, Grady EE, Heiba S, Israel O, Kim CK, Klitzke A, Love C, Sathekge M, Treves T, Yarbrough TL. Appropriate Use Criteria for the Use of Nuclear Medicine in Musculoskeletal Infection Imaging. J Nucl Med. 2021 Sep 30;62(12):1815–31. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.121.262579. PMID: 34593597; PMCID: PMC8612196.
Jadvar, Hossein; Ballas, Leslie; Choyke, Peter; Fanti, Stefano; Gulley, James; Herrmann, Ken; Hope, Thomas; Klitzke, Alan; Oldan, Jorge; Pomper, Martin; Rowe, Steven; Subramaniam, Rathan; Taneja, Samir; Vargas, Herbert; Ahuja, Sukhjeet. SNMMI AUC Factsheet for Imaging Evaluation of Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer After Definitive Primary Treatment. Aug 2020. (not in pubmed, available in link below) https://snmmi.org/common/Uploaded%20files/AUC%20Factsheets/BCR_Prostate…
Expert Panel on Musculoskeletal Imaging; Czuczman GJ, Mandell JC, Wessell DE, Lenchik L, Ahlawat S, Baker JC, Cassidy RC, Demertzis JL, Garner HW, Klitzke A, Maynard JR, Pierce JL, Reitman C, Thiele R, Yost WJ, Beaman FD. ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Inflammatory Back Pain: Known or Suspected Axial Spondyloarthritis: 2021 Update. J Am Coll Radiol. 2021 Nov;18(11S):S340-S360. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2021.08.003. PMID: 34794593.
Dudeja PK, Wali RK, Klitzke A, Sitrin MD, Brasitus TA. Correction of enhanced Na(+)-H+ exchange of rat small intestinal brush-border membranes in streptozotocin-induced diabetes by insulin or 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol. J Clin Invest. 1991 May;87(5):1755-62. doi: 10.1172/JCI115194. PMID: 1850761; PMCID: PMC295285.