Recently added articles from The Journal of Nuclear Medicine:
MIRD Recognizes Atkins with Loevinger-Berman Award
Sep 01, 2008; Brill, A Bertrand (Randy) ... Harold L. Atkins, MD, was presented with the LoevingerBerman Award for excellence in the field of internal dosimetry on Sunday, June 15, at the SNM Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, The award was established in 1999 by the Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) Committee in honor of Robert ...
Outstanding JNMT Articles for 2007
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Frances Neagley, CNMT, FSNMTS, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology (JNMT), presented awards at the 2008 SNM Annual Meeting to the authors of 3 articles chosen as the most outstanding 2007 contributions to JNMT. The lead authors or their representatives received plaques ...
Outstanding JNM Articles for 2007
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Heinrich R. Scheiben, MD, PhD, and the associate editors and editorial board of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) announced in June the articles chosen as the most outstanding contributions to the literature appearing in JNM in 2007. The authors of these articles were honored at the SNM 55th ...
Ell Receives de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... On June 15, at the 55th Annual Meeting of the SNM in New Orleans, LA, Peter J. Ell, MD, director of the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and chair of nuclear medicine at University College London (UK), was awarded the 2008 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his contributions to the ...
2009-2010 MIRD Committee Internship Program
Sep 01, 2008; Sgouros, George ... The Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) Committee of SNM is pleased to announce a new young member internship program. The program is designed to give junior SNM members and those of the SNM Young Professionals Committee an opportunity to attend 1-2 MIRD Committee meetings per year and to ...
Thakur Receives Cassen Prize for Research
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Mathew L. Thakur, PhD, a molecular imaging pioneer and past president of the SNM, was awarded the 2008 Benedict Cassen Prize during the 55th Annual Meeting of the society, in New Orleans, LA. This biennial honor, given by the SNM Education and Research Foundation (ERF), is presented to a living ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sep 01, 2008; Wahl, Richard; Wagner, Henry N Jr ... To the Newsline Editor: In the article summarizing my remarks at the SNM Molecular Imaging Summit and published in the June issue of Newsline (2008;49:65N-68N), the baseball field used in the film Field of Dreams was referred to as having been plowed under to grow corn and soybeans. An ...
SNM and SNMTS 2008-2009 Leaders
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... SNM and SNMTS introduced their 2008-2009 slates of officers at the 55th Annual Meeting, held June 14-18 in New Orleans, LA. During their tenure, SNM officers will work with membership to advance initiatives around nuclear medicine and molecular imaging research and therapies. SNM ...
IN MEMORIAM: Bruce H. Hasegawa, PhD, 1951-2008
Sep 01, 2008; Jones, Ella F; Gould, Robert G; VanBrocklin, Henry F ... On May 22 the nuclear medicine and medical physics communities lost an extraordinarily brilliant scientist, talented teacher, devoted mentor, and, above all, a dear and true friend. Bruce Hasegawa, PhD, died at the age of 56 at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center a ...
SNM Hosts Briefing and Roundtable with Cancer Community
Sep 01, 2008; Cronin, Valerie ... As part of its ongoing effort to expand the universe of organizations involved in increasing patient access to molecular imaging, SNM, in partnership with the Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI), hosted a briefing and roundtable discussion titled, "Molecular Imaging: Diagnosis and Treatment of ...
The 6 Competencies and MOC
Sep 01, 2008; Royal, Henry D ... The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the umbrella organization for all primary certifying boards, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the umbrella organization for physician training programs, have agreed that all physicians should be evaluated for ...
Molecular Imaging/Therapy: It's Only Useful If It's Useful-and Available
Sep 01, 2008; DeNardo, Gerald ... Advances in imaging technology have made it possible to view molecular pathways within living individuals as never before. However, molecular imaging and therapy have existed for more than a half-century and are based on long-established concepts and methods (see suggested references for support ...
CMS Releases Proposed 2009 HOPPS and MPFS
Sep 01, 2008; Cannon, Hugh ... In late June, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services (CMS) released the proposed rules for Medicare payment for both the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for calendar year (CY) 2009. As always, several proposed items ...
Building a Foundation for Better PET Utilization
Sep 01, 2008; Macapinlac, Homer; Segall, George ... The PET Center of Excellence (PET CoE) is an organizational component within SNM dedicated to all aspects of the development and utilization of PET and PET/CT in the detection and management of disease. The center brings together clinicians, scientists, technologists, and industry leaders to ...
AAPM Holds 50th Meeting
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) was held in Houston, TX, from July 27 to 31. Thousands of scientists and health professionals from the field of medical physics gathered to celebrate a half-century of achievement and to present the latest technologies ...
MDS Sues AECL Over MAPLE Reactors
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MDS Inc., a Canadian health care company that provides services to the global life sciences markets, announced on July 9 that it had served Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) with notice of arbitration proceedings as part of an effort to compel AECL to resume work on new nuclear reactors to ...
FDA Final Regulation on Early-Stage Clinical Drug Development
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 18 issued a final regulation designed to make early phase 1 clinical drug development "safe and efficient by enabling a phased approach to complying with current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) statutes and FDA investigational requirements," ...
McAfee, Nuclear Medicine Pioneer, Dies
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... John G. McAfee, MD, a nuclear medicine pioneer whose groundbreaking research led to major medical advances across the spectrum of imaging practice, died on July 26 in Baltimore, MD. He cofounded the first nuclear medicine facility at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1958. He was born in ...
Smaller U.S. Hospitals to Invest in Imaging
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... According to a study released on July 24 by IMV Medical Information Division (Des Plaines, IL), U.S. hospitals with fewer than 200 beds are anticipating significant increases in spending for medical imaging equipment in 2009. "Capital budgets for diagnostic imaging equipment remained virtually ...
CMS Points to Quality Reporting Payoffs
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) announced on July 15 the payment of more than $36 million in bonus payments to many of the more than 56,700 health professionals who satisfactorily reported quality information to Medicare under the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) ....