Phillip H. Kuo, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Medicine, University Affiliate, Medicine

E-Mail Address: 
pkuo@email.arizona.edu
Research Information
Research Program: 
2. Cancer Imaging
Member Status: 
Associate Member
Summary of Research Activity: 

PET/CT for monitoring of response to therapy, PET/CT for cutaneous
lymphoma, Imaging of the immune system (immunotherapy, inflammatory
diseases, and infection), Antibody-directed imaging for inflammatory bowel disease and osteomyelitis, PET/CT for planning of radiation therapy, PET/CT instrumentation, functional MRI/ magnetic resonance spectroscopy, bioenergetics, pathophysiology of asthma, geology.

Selected Publications: 

Kuo PH, Cooper DL, and Cheng DW. (2006) Recurrence of Lymphoma Presenting as Asymmetrically Increased Testicular Activity on FDG-PET/CT. Seminars In Nuclear Medicine 36(1), 105-7.

Kuo PH, Spooner S, Deol P, and Monchamp, T. (2006) Metastatic Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor Imaged by PET/CT. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 31(2), 106-8.

Kuo PH, Monchamp T, and Deol P. (In press) Imaging of Inflammation in Graves’ Ophthalmopathy by Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography. Thyroid.

Kuo PH, Cheng DW, and Sadar R. (2005) Diagnosis of Septic Joint in an Immunosuppressed Patient by Twenty-four Hour Delayed Imaging with Tc-99m HMPAO Labeled White Blood Cell Scan. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 30(12), 808-9.

Kuo PH and Cheng DW. (2005) Artifactual Spinal Metastases Imaged by PET/CT. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology 33(4), 230-1.

Kuo PH and Nakamoto RK. (2000) Intra- and intergenic suppression of the Escherichia coli ATP synthase subunit aGly-213 to Asn mutation: functional interactions among residues in the proton transport site. Biochem J. 347, 797-805.

Nakamoto RK, Ketchum CJ, Kuo PH, Peskova EB and Al-Shawi MK. (2000) Molecular Mechanisms of Rotational Catalysis in the FOF1 ATP synthase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta May 31, 1458(2-3): 289-99.

Kuo PH, Ketchum, CJ and Nakamoto RK. (1998) Stability and functionality of cysteine-less FOF1 ATP synthase from Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett. 426, 217-220.

Rye RO, Kuo PH, Holland HD. (1995) Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations before 2.2 billion years ago. Nature 378: 603-605.

Professional Information
Board Certifications: 

2004 - American Board of Nuclear Medicine Certification
2003 - American Board of Internal Medicine Certification
2003 - Medical Board of Connecticut Medical Licensure
4/01 - USMLE Step 3
2/00 - USMLE Step 2
6/96 - USMLE Step 1 – 99th percentile

Honors: 

04/05 - Invited speaker for Radiation Therapy Grand Rounds
2005  - Faculty Mentor for Gastroenterology Fellows Conference
2004  - Chief Resident for Nuclear Medicine Yale New Haven Hospital
2000  - Society of Fellows (University of Virginia)
94/00 - Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship
1998  - Co-chairman for Annual Meeting of Department of Molecular Physiology (University of Virginia)
90/94 - Dean’s List at Harvard University
93/94 - Teaching Fellow for Organic Chemistry at Harvard University (3 semesters)

Academic Information
Fellowship: 
Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, Nuclear Medicine
Residency: 
Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, Nuclear Medicine
Doctorate: 
University of Virgina School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, 1999
Medical School: 
University of Virgina School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2000
Master's Degree: 
University of Virgina School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, 1998
Undergraduate School: 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, AB Chemistry, 1994