Philosophy of Care

As critical part of the nuclear medicine team, Dr. Spencer puts patient care first and supports the UC Davis core values of professionalism, integrity, diversity, and excellence. His philosophy of care incorporates all of the Institute of Medicine allowing for care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.  

Clinical Interests

Dr. Spencer is deeply involved with the quality assurance and quality control of the nuclear medicine equipment at University of California, Davis. The translation of his work reflects on the optimal patient care that UC Davis provides their patients with. He is responsible for daily, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual hardware and software checks ensuring performance according to the four nines rule. 

Research/Academic Interests

As an early user of total-body PET scanners, Dr. Spencer has a wealth of expertise in this field. Specifically, his research focus is on long-axial field-of-view scanner research use and the necessary quality control and quality assurance protocols needed to ensure these state-of-the-art systems are operating with the highest degree of accuracy and reliability for all total-body PET research studies. Furthermore, Dr. Spencer's research involves setting a new standard for fully characterizing all long-axial field-of-view and total-body PET scanners, an effort Dr. Spencer leads in collaboration with several national and international collaborators: UPenn (Pennsylvnia, US), St. Jude's Children's Hospital (Tennesse, US), University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy), University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland), and Fundon Hospital (Shanghai, China).

Division

Medical Physics