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Educator's Committee (SNMMI-TS)
Committee Charges:
Goal A: Increase Membership
- Create specific education offerings for students to encourage them to renew membership
- Achieve buy-in from program directors regarding the importance of the SNMMI-TS and the benefits it offers
- Create a program that will pair students with an experienced mentor. The mentor should stay with the student throughout the program.
Goal B: Enhance Marketing
- Develop materials that outline the benefits of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging – introduce sessions or workshops in collaboration with other organizations or specialty groups
- Promote the profession to high school and undergraduate students
- Create a program for educators to use when working with high school students and when visiting high schools and high school program
- Collaborate with high school counselors to ensure they have information about the profession
- Identify and network with specific organizations to maximize the visibility of the profession
- Collaborate with other organizations of the healthcare profession on education activities
Goal C: Improve Leadership
- Create career-enhancing initiatives and programs for SNMMI-TS members
- Be more proactive in identifying young, passionate, dedicated technologists and recruit the into SNMMI activities
- Bring 5-10 new technologists into governance each year
- Expand mentor program
- Update mentoring plan so that mentors understand their roles and expectations
- Have mentor and mentee work together to set short-term and long-term goals
- Formulate teaching strategies that will accommodate the different learning styles and generational perspectives
Goal D: Advance Education
- Increase the number of online or live educational offerings for technologists
- Include specific sessions on emerging technologies and interdisciplinary education
- Increase or create education opportunities for other modalities
- Continue to promote the SNMMI-TS curriculum guide as the standard for the profession
- Work to transition all educational programs to include the recent revision of the curriculum guide by 2015
Goal G: Improve Resource Management
- Increase development of revenue-producing programs
- Update Review of Nuclear Medicine Technology book
Resources:
Nuclear Medicine Technology Competency-Based Curriculum Guide (5th Edition)
Goals for 2021-22
- Design and develop a repository for educators.
- Design and develop clinical instructor modules.
- Plan the educator’s forum for the 2022 annual meeting.
- Work with a group from the Membership Committee to recruit Nuclear Medicine Technologist Program Directors as members.
Committee Members
| Lauren Shanbrun, MS, CNMT, RT(N)(CT) | Chairperson |
| Dusty M. York, CNMT, PET, RT(N)(CT) | Ex-Officio Member |
| Julie Dawn Bolin, MS, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Norman E. Bolus, MSPH,CNMT,FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Crystal Botkin, PhD, MPH, CNMT, PET, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Amy B. Brady, MAED, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Michelle Coppens, CNMT, PET, RT (CT) | Committee Member |
| Courtney Cross, MBA, RT(N)(CT),CNMT | Committee Member |
| Geoffrey M. Currie, PhD BPharm MMRS CNMT | Committee Member |
| Jeanne M. Dial, MEd, CNMT, NMTCB(CT) | Committee Member |
| Sarah A. Frye, MBA,CNMT,PET,CCRP | Committee Member |
| Regina M. Garrard | Committee Member |
| Remo George, PhD | Committee Member |
| C. David Gilmore, EdD, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Norma Green Gutierrez, MBA, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Carlyn M. Johnson, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Sara L. Johnson, EdS, CNMT, RT(N)(CT) | Committee Member |
| Summer Khairi | Committee Member |
| Anthony W. Knight, PhD,CNMT,RT(N),NCT,F | Committee Member |
| Deborah LeMay, MPH, RT(R)(N) | Committee Member |
| Agdanamai Luis, MEd, RT(N), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Donna L. Mason, MS, CNMT, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Jennifer A. Miles, MS, RT(N), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Jasmin Miller, DBA, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Nicole Nardecchia MBA, CNMT,PET,RT(CT)(MR) | Committee Member |
| Patricia M. O'Neal, CNMT, NCT | Committee Member |
| Mary Anne Owen, MHE, RT(N), FSNMMITS | Committee Member |
| Gregory G. Passmore, PhD, CNMT, NMTCB(RS) | Committee Member |
| Jennifer L. Prekeges, MS, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Leesa Ann Ross, MA, CNMT, PET, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Jay J. Smith, MA, CNMT, RT (R)(N) | Committee Member |
| Aileen M. Staffaroni, MS, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Tiffinee Swanson, MHA,ACC, RT(R), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Ann M. Voslar, MHA/Ed, RT(N), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Madhusudan Vyas, NMT | Committee Member |
| William A. Wentling, II, MS,RT(R)(N),CNMT | Committee Member |