Background
Quastel, Michael Reuben was born on June 30, 1933 in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Son of Juda Hirsch and Henrietta (Jungman) Quastel.
educator nuclear medicine physician
Quastel, Michael Reuben was born on June 30, 1933 in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Son of Juda Hirsch and Henrietta (Jungman) Quastel.
Bachelor of Science with honors, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1953. Doctor of Medicine, CM, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, University Ottawa, Canada, 1971.
Intern Charity Hospital Louisiana, New Orleans, 1957-1958. Research fellow Defense Research Board of Canada, Royal Cancer Hospital, London, 1958-1959. Resident in nuclear medicine University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, 1959-1961.
Research associate Pasadena (California) Foundation for Medical Research, 1961-1962. Research fellow, resident departments oncology and physiology Hadassah Hospital Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1962-1965. Head biology section, radiation protection division Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, 1965-1970, head environmental mutagenic section, environmental health division, 1970-1974.
From physician to head Soroka Medical Center Institute Nuclear Medicine, Beersheva, Israel, 1974-1998. From associate professor to professor faculties of natural and health science Ben Gurion University of The Negev, Israel, 1974—1998, emeritus professor, since 1998. Head nuclear medicine MAR Diagnostic Center, 1998—2008.
Chairman 12th International Leucocyte Culture Conference, 1978. Co-chairman International Conference in Radiation and Health, 1996. Chairman Chernobyl committee faculty of health science Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, 1991—1994.
Chairman Light Opera Group of the Negev, Beersheva, 1988—1989, 1998—1999. Member European Society Nuclear Medicine, Society Nuclear Medicine, Israel Society Nuclear Medicine.
Married Eva C.R. Torngren, June 27, 1962. Children: Jonas, Daniel, Aaron, Benjamin.