Author
Carlos A. Garcia, Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine
Carlos Garcia, MD, is the director of PET/CT Imaging. Dr. Garcia is also an assistant professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and he is part of the MedStar Washington Hospital Center Speaker’s Bureau.
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