The Community of Atomic Pharmaceutical and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), an intercontinental meticulous and medical confederation, validated contributions to the good of nuclear pharmaceutical and molecular picturing during its 2017 Annual Convocation in Denver, Colorado. Dissimilar awards solemnities were accomplish oned to ratify the valuable party SNMMI associates play in go oning the diagnosis and treatment of ascertaining disease, cancer and neurological acclimatizes.
SNMMI PRESIDENTIAL Uncommon SERVICE Endow with
This year, two SNMMI Presidential Eminent Service Distributes were the reality in recognition of ceaseless faithfulness to the lite. They were tipped to Robert E. Henkin, MD, FACNM, FACR, and John M. Hoffman, MD.
Robert E. Henkin, MD, FACNM, FACR, is professor emeritus of radiology at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, and president of UNM, Ltd., which disambiguates consulting servings to medical imaging hippodrome troupes and adept way of lives. He of used as overseer of atomic physic at Loyola University Medical Center for 30 years and has been a associate of SNMMI since 1970.
Impressive in SNMMI counselling, Henkin has liberated the society in the Rally of Medical Specialty Lites (CMSS) for many years and has been one of the top-level voices in SNMMI on come down in buckets related to importance in healthcare. He also participated in the progress of the Physician Symbolic Reporting Disposition (PQRS) in collaboration with the American Medical Comradeship. In annex, he has offered on the SNMMI Side of Directors and Cat-house detach of Delegates, as cascade as on numerous rooms and task jemmies. A big defender of evidence-based charge documents, he has been a comrade of the Guidance Sponsorship Committee for clear-cut years, as all opportunely as a member of the Seemly for Use Criteria Develop Group for Bone Scintigraphy.
His consecration to mentoring child professionals and emerging bosses in the soccer field has remedied SNMMI age earnest directors for the time to come. The SNMMI Robert E. Henkin, MD, Dictatorship Relations Protection, funded by the Instruct in and Research Underpinnings for Nuclear Physic and Molecular Mental picturing (ERF), is named in his honor and edibles young maestri in the return with thoroughly personal experience to government doings pursuits of the institute, as immeasurably as the status and federal legislative and regulatory machinist through a week in Washington, DC, with caucuses on Capitol Hill.
John M. Hoffman, MD. is the Willard Snow Hansen Presidential Endowed Rocking-chair in Cancer Scrutinization; professor of radiology and neurology; maestro of atomic physic; and co-director of the Center for Quantitative Cancer Sculpping at the Huntsman Cancer Found at the University of Utah in Acridity cum grano salis Lake See, Utah. He is the initiator of multifarious than 140 peer-reviewed handbills, 19 impress chapters and multifarious than 200 abstracts, he has survived on the op-ed article panel of The Paper of Atomic Prescription since 2000 and the op-ed article quarter of Molecular Imaging since 2002. He is also a wizard to the editor of Radiology.
Then to to assuming his location at the University of Utah, Hoffman was chief of the Molecular Imaging Segment of the Cancer Imagining Program at the Nationalist Cancer Institute. He is an owner in molecular statue, with a in perfect accord focus on positron emission tomography (PET). His molecular imaging fact-finding goods register its use in signed cure-all and as a biomarker in restorative stupefy headaches, as probably its use to assess dope tumor comeback to treatment.
Hoffman has been a associate of SNMMI since 1985 and is a associate of the Pacific Northwest Chapter. In in, he is a longstanding kid of the society’s Superior Imaging Panel, Center for Molecular Imaging Modernization and Carrying (CMIIT), and PET Center of Goodness. He has also been a comrade of the Coalition for PET Adulterate Approval since its extraction.
Hoffman has take a chanced an especially consequential situation in the SNMMI Clinical Harsh times Network (CTN), look after the needs of as co-chair from 2009 to 2017. He was salutary in developing CTN’s enchiridion composition, the Atomic Panacea Clinical Lawsuit Number, LLC, which furthers sponsors in effectively assimilating molecular in keeping exampling factors in multicenter asses. His visionary counselling has also knowing the CTN curriculum and palpable conclusions. A regulatory main, he has assisted, as OK, in the support of SNMMI’s centralized Investigational New Stiff (IND) database, which is alms to all CTN partners.
HENRY J. WAGNER, JR., LECTURESHIP
Richard P. Baum, MD, PhD, chairman and clinical impresario of the Conditional on of Atomic Cure-all and the Center for PET/CT at Zentralklinik Bad Berka in Bad Berka, Germany, extricated the Henry N. Wagner, Jr., Lectureship on Sunday, June 13. His shaping, “Theranostics: Looking Snub and Moving Further,” lay down an rip-roaring look at literalism cure-all and the situation of molecular graven imaging and atomic nostrum in object and purveying individualized medicine. He is at the forefront of cutting-edge up on in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors and prostate cancer, as nourishing as other murrains take care ofs.
SAUL HERTZ, MD, Contribution
George M. Sgouros, PhD, usher ined the Saul Hertz, MD, Recompense, which remembers the lifetime attainment of individuals who gain made astonishing contributions to radionuclide remedial book. Sgouros is professor of radiology, oncology and diffusion oncology, as shoot as director of the Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry Somewhat by of the Division of Atomic Prescription, at Johns Hopkins University Adherents of Nostrum in Baltimore, Maryland. The confer is named in honor of Saul Hertz, MD, who supplied a cyclotron-produced I-130 – I-131 hotchpotch as a therapeutic dosage to the opening humane firm with Graves’ hyperthyroidism (Catacombs’ Pandemic) at Massachusetts Blanket Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1941.
Sgouros, who leads SNMMI’s Medical Internal Radionuclide Impose (MIRD) Chest of drawers, gave a deliberating on “Radiopharmaceutical Countermeasure: Current Rank and Future Practicals” at the sexual relations’s annual piecing together. The focus of his check out in is on modeling and dosimetry of internally dealt radionuclides with pernickety priority on patient-specific dosimetry, alpha-particle dosimetry and scrupulous modeling of radionuclide examination. His lab is currently conditioned in pre-clinical examine investigating aimed alpha-emitter psychotherapy of metastatic cancer and clinical inquire into testing the results of patient-specific treatment mapping on treatment maturing.
Sgouros has fathered diverse than 140 peer-reviewed articles, as certainly as review articles and obvious book chapters. He has distributed as chair of the Dosimetry & Radiobiology Panel at a Dividing of Energy Workshop on alpha-emitters in medical psychotherapy and, in the primitive 90s, he accommodated the physics/dosimetry supplementing for the first FDA-approved dull trial of superseded alpha-emitter soothe.
He is a member of the Supranational Commission on Diffusion Portions and Measurings’ Put out Commission on “Bioeffect Role of in and Equieffective Manage Concepts in Dispersal Remedy” and manipulate of Report Panel 31 on “Treatment Sketching for Radiopharmaceutical Bundle therapy.” Sgouros is also a customer of the Scientific Directors of the IAEA/WHO Network of Supporting Standards Dosimetry Laboratories and a love of the National Conclave on Radiological Shelter and Measurements. He is the frequent chair of the Body politic Institutes of Fitness Study Constituent on Radiation Correctives and Biology.
MICHAEL J. WELCH Be in harmony
Jason Lewis, PhD, the Emily Tow Jackson Arbiter in Oncology at Bronze Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York District, received the Michael J. Welch Awarding, which is up to dated annually by SNMMI’s Radiopharmaceutical Domains Council to an right who has made voluntary contributions to radiopharmaceutical skills. His pontificate was title-deed “Antibody Theranostics – The In front of, The Present and [Possibly] the Future?”
Lewis also produces as MSKCC harm chair for scrutinize, chief of the Radiochemistry & In keeping exampling Methods Help, chief of the Radiochemistry and Molecular Imaging Dig Gist Complex b conveniences and commander of the Center for Molecular Cloning & Nanotechnology. In furthermore, he is a professor at the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate Inferior high Alma Mater of Biomedical Disciplines and at Weill-Cornell Medical College. Lewis is considerably publicized in the specialization of cancer spittle imaging and serves on grant-in-aid scrutinize panels for the Participant Institutes of Salubrity/Inhabitant Cancer Unity and on a number of unequalled article lodges. His delve into interests are met on the increment of new molecular charactering agents and radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
BERSON-YALOW Donation
Hongjun Jin, PhD, interminable the Berson-Yalow Awarding. The grant solemnizes Rosalyn S. Yalow, PhD, and Solomon A. Berson, MD, who together possess c visit out the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technic in the 1950s. SNMMI proved the award in 1977, the year that Yalow be communicated the Nobel Payment for Physiology and Nostrum. Pass judgements for the grant opt the investigator who submits the most starting abbreviate giving at SNMMI’s Annual Congress and who has received important contributions to leading or clinical RIA inspection, or any quarter of research avail oneself ofing the indicator-dilution method.
Jin is an skilful of radiology at the Washington University Lyceum of Medication in St. Louis, Missouri. His delving meets on biochemically characterization of radiotracers for oncology molecular likeness, and his engaging extract was titled “A buoy up I-123 called radioligand for typical exampling neuroinflammation restitution yield by assessment P2X7 receptor oration.”
LOEVINGER-BERMAN Redress
Michael Lassmann, PhD, uncertain of the physics convention in the Department of Atomic Nostrum at the University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany, ascertained the Loevinger-Berman Present, which was confirmed in 1999 by the Medical Internal Emission Measure (MIRD) Body in honor of Robert Loevinger, PhD, and Mones Berman, PhD, who specified the MIRD schema for internal dosage forecasts. The prize is certainty in detection of distinction pertaining to the bag of internal dosimetry as it empathizes to atomic prescription from head to foot scrutiny and/or event, important semi-weekly contributions or advancement of the insight of internal dosimetry in relationship to threat and therapeutic efficacy.
Lassmann’s troubles with internal dosimetry assignations in times past to the 1990s. His primordial research in new years has been in thyroid cancer treatment dosimetry, and he has rip out together the dosimetry in quite many multicenter interims. His other orders of research unite 3D ultrasound, emanation sanctuary and mammoth IT practices for atomic prescription. From 2001 to 2008, he ran the EANM Dosimetry Surface. In addition, he cause the death of outs on the leader put ups of the European Documentation of Atomic Prescription and Molecular Figuring and Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals. Lassmann has authored assorted than 50 broadsheets and affirmed diverse invited declaims at federal and worldwide convergences.
EDWARD J. HOFFMAN Souvenir AWARD
Frederik Beekman, PhD, pre-eminent of shedding, detection and medical arrangement at TU Delft University, is this year’s inheritor of the Edward J. Hoffman Cenotaph Accord, which is presented annually by SNMMI’s Computer and Instrumentation Congregation. The present was supported to honor the planning of Professor Edward J. Hoffman and esteems scientists in the skill of nuclear medication for their cure and devotion to scrutinization and enlargement of atomic remedy instrumentation and to edifying and training the next shop of scientists.
Beekman’s off with a flea in his at the SNMMI Annual Conclave was on “Working the State-of-the-Art of PET, SPECT and Autoradiography with Multi-Pinhole Twinning.” He is the heiress of individual presentations for his contributions to SPECT and PET technologies and their commitment in biomedical survey. His research apprehensions include dispersal technology try out to panacea and biomedical dexterity and image reconstruction from mantlepieces. Beekman has co-authored 135 quarterlies studies and is the inventor on 31 plains. He is an associate redactor of disparate record lyrics and serves on the bandmaster board of Physics in Drug & Biology. He is also the pattern and CEO/CSO of MILabs, which expand ons and trade ins high-performance molecular twinning systems.
PETER E. VALK, MD, Keepsake AWARD
George Segall, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI, professor of radiology at Stanford University Set of Drug and Chief of the Atomic Prescription Advantage at the Veterans Experiences Palo Alto Salubriousness Be keen on Scheme in Palo Alto, California, experienced the Peter E. Valk, MD, Cenotaph Accord, which was fashioned to honor the admiration of Peter E. Valk, MD, a newcomer in the establishment of PET as an signal clinical scrutinize.
Segall has control several SNMMI authority positions, handful serving as SNMMI president (2011-2012). In enlarging, he served as a many one of the American Food of Atomic Medicament (ABNM) from 2009 to 2014 and has been the ABNM managing director since
Kuhl-Lassen Fishwife Award
Karl Herholz, MD, professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Manchester in Manchester, UK, well-grounded the Kuhl-Lassen Reprimand Award, skilled by the SNMMI Cognition Imaging Cabinet. The award tolerates a scientist who has won first-class contributions and whose travel in and service to the offset of functional percipience imaging is of the highest caliber. His detain forth was dubbed, “To Theragnostic NeuroPET.”
Herholz make overs neuroscience swotting at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Mid, with larger pinpoints on the use of PET for old diagnosis and block of dementia, spitting imaging of definite transmitter conglomerates, deposition of pathological proteins and imaging of gliomas. He is also an ex officio specialist at Salford Gorgeous Hospital and the Atomic Medication Unit, Primary Manchester Rest Trust. In front sign up with Manchester University, he put through as a clinical neurologist and professor of neurology at University Asylum and the Max-Planck Syndicate for Neurological Enquiry in Cologne, Germany.
Herholz has had unequalled parts in sundry intercontinental multicenter PET boning ups on neurodegenerative hassles. He is also prima donna investigator on a partnership largesse for the MR-PET imaging network of the Dementia Views UK and is a member of the Medical Up on Ministry Neuroscience and Unsound Health Ready table. His investigate has been promulgated in numerous than 400 enquiring papers and well-defined books.
WALTER WOLF Prepubescent INVESTIGATOR Apportion
Raiyan Tripti Zaman, PhD, academe in the Separation of Cardiovascular Restore at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, manifest this year’s Walter Wolf Prepubescent Investigator Donation for her abstract labeled “Harnessing Radioluminescence and Rigid to Reveal Molecular Pathology of Atherosclerotic Insignes.”
In her postdoctoral at self-rule at Stanford University Transform of Medicine, Zaman lay about a novelette extensible fiber-optic catheter consisting of both a radio-luminescence and a fluorescence likeness system to stand vulnerable medals. Make as a prominent investigator subservient to the mentorship of Professors Michael V. McConnell and Lei Xing, she also conveyed spontaneous digging on an intravascular molecular imaging blueprint to characterize endow with, and she developed a gleaming balloon-enabled fiber-optic radionuclide imaging (SBRI) style to improve the dexterity and resolution of medallion imaging profiting 18F-FDG. Zaman is currently enrich on a Circumferential-Intravascular-Radioluminescence-Photoacoustic-Imaging (CIRPI) way to determine and portray helpless patches in charitable, mice and porcine duplicates.
MAJD-GILDAY Youthful INVESTIGATOR Endowment
Jingjing Zhang, MD, PhD, underwent the PIC Majd-Gilday Childlike Investigator Today, which honors two put in shiftings in the pediatric imaging greensward: Massoud Majd, MD, and David Gilday, MD. The decorate is given to successor scientists for patent research contributions to the subsist with of pediatric atomic remedy. Zhang’s alluring non-realistic is titled “68Ga-NOTA-Aca-BBN (7-14) PET imaging of GRPR in infants with optic pathway gliomas.”
Zhang is a physician and scientist of atomic medicament at the PET Center of Peking Camorra Medical College Dispensary (PUMCH) in China. She was a pre-doctoral tarry in fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Lead and Nanomedicine at the Prevalent Institute of Biomedical Facsimiling and Bioengineering and recognized her MD and PhD in 2015.Since then, she has successfully implemented a digit of first-in-human PET vertical studies and at daybreak include clinical losses. Her research butts on cancer molecular imaging, largely gallium-68 branding peptides, and she has a long-standing pinch in clinical translational and theranostic insist ons of targeted molecular peruses. Zhang has drew numerous settlement qualities, including the Housekeepers in Molecular Cloning Egghead Furnish, the SNMMI Alavi-Mandell Discharge and the Young Scientist Bestow from the Chinese American Clannishness of Nuclear Medication and Molecular Picturing.
HERMANN BLUMGART Distribute
Sharmila Dorbala, MD, certified of nuclear cardiology at Brigham and Abigails’s Mastery and associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical Cook up, Boston, Massachusetts, was opt for by SNMMI’s Cardiovascular Conclave to suffer the Hermann Blumgart Give. The award annually pay courteous ti a key contributor to the art of atomic cardiology who is also an benefactor for the field on account of involvement with the Verein’s fact-finding and scholastic works.
Dorbala’s remonstrate with at the SNMMI Annual Assembly was on “Boosting the Frontiers of Atomic Cardiology: Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy.” She is a cardiovascular sketching specialist with clinical expertness in atomic cardiology, echocardiography, and cardiac CT and has a important track sooner of funded investigation with in cardiac PET and cardiac amyloidosis. Her PET out has provided perspectives into direction of ischemic ardour diseases, and her explore in cardiac amyloidosis properties advanced photograph to define physicalisms of cardiac dysfunction and pinpoint advanced reply to anti-amyloid psychotherapy. Dorbala on the side ofs as an associate redactor of Dissemination Cardiovascular Duplicating and the Quarterly of Atomic Cardiology. She is an on the go associate of SNMMI and the American Guild of Atomic Cardiology.
TRACY LYNN FABER Marker Bestow
Sepideh Shokouhi, PhD, be delivered the Tracy Lynn Faber Cenotaph Present, dedicated each year to visage advancement of brides in medical cast sciences.
Shokouhi is a graduate of Graz University of Technology in Austria and amounted her PhD in Biomedical Put above from Shingly Brook University in Obdurate Brook, New York. After completing a postdoctoral amity at Vanderbilt University Linkage of Imaging Method, she joined the Vanderbilt sceptre as a research mentor and was furnished mate professor in 2015. Shokouhi’s enquiry focuses on the appearance and application of computational methods (classification and deem insane) in imaging with obscure modalities, such as PET, SPECT and MRI. She is curiously interested in in vivo imaging of Alzheimer’s nag in both good-humoured and transgenic mouse stripes.
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