Ignac Fogelman (1948–5 July 2016)[1] was a professor of Nuclear Medicine at King’s College London, Honorary Consultant Physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, and Director of the Osteoporosis Screening & Research Unit at Guy’s Hospital. He was born in 1948 in Germany and died on 5 July 2016 in the United Kingdom.[2][3][4] He is known as the father of bone imaging by some researchers and academics.[5]
He was appointed as a Consultant Physician in the Nuclear Medicine Department at Guy’s Hospital in 1983.[3] He set-up the first osteoporosis-related bone screening service in the UK. He started working at King's College London (KCL) during mid-1992 until he died. He became a full professor in 1996. He retired from NHS in 2015.[2]
Ignac was also a former board member and trustee of National Osteoporosis Society. He also chaired the board of examiners for masters course in Nuclear Medicine at KCL.
Books and publications
He started publishing research his work during 1977,[6] and published more than 500 scientific documents during his career with over 18,700 citations.[7] According to Scopus, he has an h-index of 67 as for mid-2020.[8] He contributed to 15 books throughout his career.[4][7] His most successful book is the "Atlas of Clinical Nuclear Medicine", which is most widely used in the world of nuclear medicine.[3][4][9]
Selected books
1996: Skeletal nuclear medicine, edited by David Collier, Ignac Fogelman, Leonard Rosenthall.[10]
1998: Evaluation Of Osteoporosis, edited by Glen M Blake, Heinz W Wahner, Ignac Fogelman.[11]
2000: An Atlas of Planar and SPECT Bone Scans, edited by David D Collier, Ignac Fogelman, Lawrence E Holder[12]
2012: Bone Scanning in Clinical Practice, edited by Ignac Fogelman.[13]
2013: Radionuclide and Hybrid Bone Imaging, edited by Ignac Fogelman, Gopinath Gnanasegaran, Hans van der Wal.[14]
2014: Atlas of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Third Edition edited by Ignac Fogelman, Susan Clarke, Gary Cook, Gopinath Gnanasegaran.[15]
^ abcdCompston, Juliet; Boyce, Brendan; Russell, Graham (2016-10-01). "Ignac Fogelman: 1948–2016". Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 31 (10): 1785–1786. doi:10.1002/jbmr.2930. ISSN0884-0431.
^Blake, Glen M. (1999). The evaluation of osteoporosis : dual energy x-ray absorptiometry and ultrasound in clinical practice. Wahner, Heinz W., Fogelman, Ignac, 1948-, Wahner, Heinz W. (2nd ed.). London: M. Dunitz. ISBN978-1-85317-472-8. OCLC40910272.
^An atlas of planar and SPECT bone scans. Holder, Lawrence E., Fogelman, Ignac, 1948-, Collier, David., Fogelman, Ignac, 1948- (2nd ed.). London: Martin Dunitz. 2000. ISBN1-85317-469-6. OCLC43533079.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)