Nuclear Medicine and PET-CT Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Dr Khalid Makhdomi, MBBS, DNB (Nuclear Medicine)
Assistant Professor and Chair
Dr Khalid Makhdomi is the Chair, Department of Radiology at the Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa.
Dr Khalid Makhdomi is an Assistant Professor and did his residency in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Bombay (India). Dr Makhdomi has been associated with the Nuclear Medicine section in the department since its inception in 2008 and played a major role in setting up the Unit. Before that, he was working at the Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Centre in Nairobi since 1998, where he was instrumental in setting up the first full-fledged Nuclear Medicine unit in the country. Since joining the department, he has overseen the successful implementation of the Cyclotron and PET-CT services in his section, the first such facility in the region, and high dose Nuclear Medicine therapy. Under his leadership the section also started a fellowship programme in Nuclear Medicine, the first in the region.
Dr Makhdomi had a long stint as the Radiology Program Director from 2008 to 2017. During that period, he also chaired the departmental committee that reviewed the Radiology PGME curriculum. He was the Chair of the departmental committee which wrote the curriculum for the Bachelor of Imaging Sciences degree course that the department is planning to start. He is a member of several other committees in the department as well as the hospital Radiation Safety Committee.
In 2019, Dr Makhdomi took the role of Vice-Chair of the department and from January 2024 he has been the interim Chair and during this period as interim Chair, he has helped further the department’s academic, clinical and research mandate.
Dr Makhdomi is also a Consultant in Nuclear Medicine at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Read more about him HERE
Publications
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‘Lower limb lymphoscintigraphy patterns among patients with lower limb lymphedema: a pictorial essay’ Edward C. Nganga, Samuel Gitau, and Khalid Makhdomi. Clin Transl Imaging DOI 10.1007/s40336-018-0266-y.
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‘Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Pathology and 2-Year Postsurgical Recurrence of Breast Cancer in Kenyan Women’ Nathan R. Brand, Ronald Wasike, Khalid Makhdomi, Rs Chauhan, Zahir Moloo, Samuel M. Gakinya, Alfred I. Neugut, Jo Anne Zujewski, Shahin Sayed. J Glob Oncol Vol 4, Pp 1-7 (2017).
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‘Prostate-specific Antigen as a Risk Factor for Skeletal Metastasis in Native Ethnic African Men with Prostate Cancer: A Case-control Study’ Ayman M. Qureshi, Khalid Makhdomi, and William Stones in World J Nucl Med. 2017 Jan-Mar; 16(1):26-32.
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‘Sentinel node imprint cytology for the diagnosis of sentinel node metastases in early breast cancer in the absence of frozen section facility: a validation study in a resource-limited setting’, S. Sayed Mohamed, Neeta Kumar, Zahir Moloo, F. Rana, Khalid Makhdomi, Ronald Wasike, Rs Chauhan. Acta cytological, May 2010, 54(3):417-417
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‘Cholangiopathy associated with portal hypertension: diagnostic evaluation and clinical implications’. Geeta H. Malkan, Shobna J. Bhatia, Khalid Bashir, Raju Khemani, Philip Abraham, Malan S. Gandhi, Ravikumar Radhakrishnan. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, March 1999, Part 1, Vol. 49, No. 3, 344-8.
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'Hepatic perfusion index in portal hypertension of cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic etiologies'. S. V. Shikare, Khalid Bashir, P. Abraham, G. H. Tilve. Nuclear Medicine Communications, 1996, 17, 520-522.
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'Early diagnosis of myositis ossificans with 99mTc Methylene diphosphonate bone scan'. S. Shikare, Hemant Pandit, Khalid Bashir, G. H. Tilve. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1995, 94-95.
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‘Detection of medullary carcinoma of thyroid, with liver metastasis, using (99m) Tc DMSA(V) scintigraphy’. Shikare S., Bashir K., Menon PS., Bapat RD., Tilve GH. Journal Of Postgraduate Medicine, 1995, 41(1), 8-11.
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'Role of 99mTc-DTPA scintigraphy in pre-op. (diagnostic) and post-op. (shunt patency evaluation) cases of hydrocephalus in children'. Aleem Jan and Khalid Bashir. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 3, July 1991, 21-27.
Dr Samuel Nguku, MBChB, MMed (Diagnostic Radiology)
Assistant Professor, Section Head and Fellowship Director
Dr Samuel Nguku is an Assistant Professor, Section Head and Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Director at Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa. He has a Bachelor’s of Medicine and Surgery degree from Moi University, Master of Medicine in Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology from AKUH, Nairobi and fellowship training in nuclear medicine from Imperial College NHS Trust, London UK (2017). Dr. Nguku’s clinical and research interests are in oncology imaging using conventional imaging modalities (CT and MRI) as well as PET CT and has been instrumental in setting up of PET CT service at AKUH,N. He is an active member of the hospital multidisciplinary tumour board and the section head of CT and body imaging, AKUH, N.
Dr Nguku is also a Consultant CT and Body Imaging at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Read more about him HERE
Publications
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Gitau SN, Vinayak S, Silaba M, Adam R, Shah R. High Prevalence of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Monoinfection and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hepatitis-B Co-infection as Assessed by Shear Wave Elastography: Study at a Teaching Hospital in Kenya. J Clin Imaging Sci 2016; 6:22. doi: 10.4103/2156-7514.183582
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Nganga, E. C., Gitau, S., & Makhdomi, K. (2018). Lower limb lymphoscintigraphy patterns among patients with lower limb lymphedema: a pictorial essay. Clinical and Translational Imaging, 6(2), 135-143 doi.org/10.1007/s40336-018-0266-y
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Kuria M, Gitau S and Warfa, K. Cervical cancer with bilateral ovarian metastases: case report and review of literature. BJR Case Rep 2018 doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20180047
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Shaikh AJ, Sikosana MLN, Nguku S, Moloo Z (2016) Malignant Pervascular Epitheloid Cell Tumor (PEComa), Presenting as a Large IntraAbdominal Mass in a Young Woman: A Case Report and Review of Literature. J Cancer Prev Curr Res 4(6): 00142. DOI: 10.15406/jcpcr.2016.04.00142
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Nguku S Urachal adenocarcinoma: a case report; The Annals of African Surgery, July 2013, vol 10 issue 2.