2013 Award Winners

Funded by the Professional Development & Education Fund (PDEF) of SNMMI

2013 Mickey Williams Minority Technologist Scholarship ($2,500)
The Mickey Williams Minority Scholarship is honors the memory of Mickey Williams, a past SNMMI-TS President who immigrated to the United States from Jamaica.  
- Jamesetta Giko - University of Findlay, Nuclear Medicine Institute
- An Di Nguyen - Advanced Medical Imaging Technology, College of Allied Health Sciences - University of Cincinnati 

2013 PDEF Professional Development Scholarship ($5,000)
The Mickey Williams Minority Scholarship is honors the memory of Mickey Williams, a past SNMMI-TS President who immigrated to the United States from Jamaica.  
- Jamesetta Giko - University of Findlay, Nuclear Medicine Institute

Funded by the Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Loevinger-Berman Award (MIRD)

Michael Ljungberg, PhD

Michael J. Welch Award

Robert Jerome Nickles, PhD

Hal O. Anger Lectureship

Michael Stabin, PhD

2013 Robert E. Henkin Government Relations Fellowship ($1,000 plus expenses)
This fellowship is designed to provide young professionals in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging direct personal exposure to the government relations activities of SNMMI as well as the state and federal legislative and regulatory processes as related to health policy and policy development.
- Marques Bradshaw, MD, Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
- Erica J. Cohen, DO, MPH, Nuclear Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL


2012 - 2013 Mitzi & William Blahd, MD, Pilot Research Grant ($25,000 over one year)
This pilot research grant is designed to help a basic or clinical scientist in the early stages of his/her career conduct research that may lead to further funding.
- Joyita Dutta, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Motion-Compensation in Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Jeff Klenc, PhD, Emory University, Development of a radiotracer targeting GPR91, a G-protein coupled receptor linked to the onset and progression of diabetes


2012 - 2013 Predoctoral Molecular Imaging Scholar Grant ($40,000 over two years)
The predoctoral program supports a research scholar in an established molecular imaging lab that will apply molecular imaging approaches (including tool development) to investigate biological pathways in disease models.
- David Hoffman, PhD candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University, Hybrid Positron Emission Tomography/ Magnetic Resonance Imaging Nanoparticle Probe Development and Multi-Modal Imaging
- Reed McDonagh, MD/PhD candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University, Molecular Imaging of Radiolabeled Nanoceria: A New Platform to Study the Mechanism of Normal Tissue Protection by Nanoceria During Radiotherapy of Tumors


2013-2015 Postdoctoral Molecular Imaging Scholar Grant ($60,000 over two years)
The postdoctoral program supports a two-year research endeavor that promotes integration of molecular imaging into the career of the trainee.
- Bernadette Marquez, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
Development of a Radiolabeled Irreversible Peptide (RIP) as a PET Imaging Agent for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor


2013-2014 Molecular Imaging Research Grant for Junior Academic Faculty ($105,000 over two years)
This program supports one junior faculty member in an academic or research setting and enables them to engage in Molecular Imaging research related to diagnostic or therapeutic applications.
- Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD, Yale University, PET Center
Molecular Imaging for Quantification of Demyelination, Glial Activation, and Amyloid in Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Cognitive Deficits

2012-2013 Bradley-Alavi Student Fellowships ($3,000 over three months or less)
The SNMMI Student Fellowships are designed to stimulate students’ interest in molecular imaging/nuclear medicine by supporting their full-time participation in clinical and basic research activities for three months (or less).

- Francis Deng - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, FES PET assessment of the pharmacodynamics of a second-generation selective estrogen receptor degrader in a breast cancer xenograft model
- Jordan Hall - MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, The Clinical Utility Of 18F Florbetapir In The Evaluation Of Fibromyalgia
- Hans Kim - State University of New York Upstate Medical Univ, Syracuse, NY, Metabolic Flux Profiling for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) T-Cells using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
- Kristian Myhre - University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Radiolabeling Monoclonal Antibodies with alpha-Emitting Radiometals Using Tetrazine-Chelate Derivatives and MAb-Cycloalkene Conjugates in Diels-Alder Reactions
- Yin Zhang - University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Quantitative Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of CD105 Expression in Breast Cancer Therapy

2013 SNMMI-TS Bachelor’s Degree Completion Scholarships ($4,000)
This scholarship serves to support current nuclear medicine technologists who are pursuing a Bachelor's degree related to their nuclear medicine careers.
- Dennis Abuya, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas
- Matthew Goss, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan

2013 CMIIT Laboratory Professional Awards ($1,000 plus free Annual Meeting registration)
This award is designed to recognize innovative/novel and high-impact tools, techniques, and practices in molecular imaging developed by non-PhD laboratory professionals. This award is distinct from the CMIIT Young Investigator Award (YIA) presented during the SNMMI annual meeting and is specifically created for non-PhD lab professionals. Publication of the work is not a requirement and larger bodies of work may be better suited for submission for the YIA, especially if the emphasis is upon research results as opposed to the development of new tools and techniques.

The Lab Professionals Award is presented annually. Its purpose is to promote the innovative efforts and exemplary accomplishments by individuals in the lab who may not have the opportunity to receive recognition in other arenas. Each of the winners showed outstanding achievements in innovation in specific areas of molecular imaging.

- Jennifer Greene, BSc
- Thomas Voller, BSc
- Daniel Yokell, PharmD

 

2013 SNMTS Outstanding Educator ($750)
Pamela S. Alderman, BSRS, CNMT

2013 SNMTS Outstanding Technologist ($750)
Rebecca A. Sajdak, BA,CNMT,RT(N),FSNMTS)

2013 Paul Cole Technologist Scholarship ($1,000)
The Paul Cole Scholarship is named in memory of Paul Cole, CNMT, who served as President of the SNMMI Technologist Section (SNMMI-TS) in 1988 and who was known as a champion of education for technologists. 

Bachelor Degree Program    
Kristine Aspenson – Froedtert Hospital Nuclear Medicine Technology Program  
Ashley Chambers – Beaumont Hospital School of Nuclear Medicine Technology
David Chin – Nuclear Medicine Technology, Regis College
Jamesetta Giko – Nuclear Medicine Institute, University of Findlay
Kimberly Halbert – Nuclear Medicine Technology, Georgia Regents University
Sarah Hoban – Nuclear Medicine, Lancaster General College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Deana McGowen – Nuclear Medicine Technology, Baptist College of Health Sciences
Shannon Standsh – Nuclear Medicine Institute, University of Findlay
Elizabeth Stassi – Nuclear Medicine Technology, Mayo School of Health Sciences
Katie Ulm – Advanced Medical Imaging Technology, University of Cincinnati
Miriam Van Dyke – Nuclear Medicine Technology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Associate Degree Program 
Natalia Bryant – Nuclear Medicine Technology, Bellevue College
Rebecca Hunt – Nuclear Medicine Technology, Santa Fe College
Nicole Oliver – Nuclear Medicine Technology, Bellevue College

Certificate Program
Jessie Berger – School of Nuclear Medicine, Research Medical Center
 

2013 SNMMI Travel Award ($1,000)
The SNMMI Travel Awards are designed to support the attendance of students and postdoctoral or clinical trainees who present molecular imaging abstracts at the SNMMI Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June. 

Mark A. Ahlman, MD
Hongyoon Choi, MD
Karel Deprez, MSc
Elisabeth Eppard, Dipl.chem.
Shadi A. Esfahani, MD, MPH
Aron Gould-Simon, MD
Yeon-Hee Han, MD
Pedram Heidari, MD
Hao Hong, PhD
Jae Ho Jung
Joong Hyun Kim, PhD
Do-Hoon Kim, MD
Eun-jung Kong, MD
Guoquan Li, MD, PhD
Su-Tang Lo, MS
Byung Seok Moon, PhD
Joo Hyun O, MD
Jihyun Park, MD
Yoann Petibon
Yothin Rakvongthai, PhD
Punit Sharma, MD
Seung Hyun Son, MD
Bhavay Sonik, MD
Yin Zhang, MS

   
2013 SNMMI-TS Travel and Student Travel Award ($1,000)    
The SNMMI-TS Travel & Student Travel Awards are designed to help support registration, travel, and accommodations towards the attendance of nuclear medicine technologists and NMT students who present abstracts at the SNMMI Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in June.

Technologist Travel Awards
Go Akamatsu, MS
Jinwook Choi
Daisuke Kidera, BS
Stephanie J. Krause, BS, MPH, CNMT
Julie Kulm, CNMT, RT(N) (CT) (ARRT)
Shouhei Mikasa, BS
Jozef Nycz
Celia O’Meara, BSc
Brooke Peters, CNMT
Royce L. Ruter, CNMT, CIIP
Alan Stuckey, BA, CNMT
Takafumi Taniguchi, BS
Shelley Wilson, RT(R), CNMT