Corina Millo, MD

MD, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel

Dr. Corina Millo is an Associate Research Physician in the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Department in NIH Clinical Center.

Dr. Millo earned her Medical Degree from Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel. She completed an internship followed by Nuclear Medicine residency in Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Soon after she relocated to United States. She worked as a research assistant in the Nuclear Medicine Department at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., focusing on pediatric renography, and in Washington Hospital Center focusing on thyroid cancer.

Dr. Millo continued her professional development with a fellowship in PET/CT at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC, receiving the Board Certification in the U.S. in 2004.

As an associate research physician in the NIH Clinical Center’s PET Department, she plays a pivotal role in the development of body PET/CT research protocols with novel tracers or novel applications of tracers. She was actively involved in all NIH protocols using somatostatin receptor PET imaging as a research tracer, interpreting thousands of such studies in conjunction with other experimental tracers and imaging modalities. She brought an important contribution to the approval of Ga-DOTATATE by the Food and Drug Administration.

Dr. Millo has co-authored numerous publications describing the use of PET imaging tracers in tumors, as well as unique case reports. She is nationally recognized as an expert in the field of molecular imaging in oncology, and in particular imaging of neuroendocrine tumors.