The General Clinical Nuclear Medicine (GCNMC) Council is a group within SNMMI dedicated to the scientific interchange of ideas among Society members who have interest in clinical nuclear medicine issues. The overall mission of the GCNMC is to:

(a)    provide a forum for members with similar interests

(b)   provide to membership expertise in clinical nuclear medicine

(c)    foster research and education in clinical nuclear medicine

(d)   provide outreach to other professionals and organizations

(e)    nurture new membership into the Society

(f)    serve as a resource to SNMMI Leadership

As the incoming President of the GCNMC, I would like to thank Dr Darlene Metter for her dedicated work and inspired leadership as the GCNMC President over the past two years. Darlene leads by consensus, and I hope to live up to her inspiring example. Much was accomplished over what was admittedly a challenging period in our professional and personal lives and she did so with poise, skill and a spirit of comradery.

We have more to do. Nuclear medicine is undergoing changes greater in scope and frequency than anything I have seen in my last 35 years of practice. Many of these changes are in the therapy and theranostics sphere and exactly for that reason we need to likewise fortify general clinical nuclear medicine and ensure that it doesn’t become the poor cousin of therapy and related modes of molecular imaging. Nuclear medicine is undergoing a renaissance in terms of training and expansion. That renaissance needs to carry general nuclear medicine along with the new modalities. We wish to step up our game through education, research and sharing of resources. We want to include others in our efforts, both in the technologist community, as well as across subspecialties by collaborating with other councils and centers.

Please join us in our endeavors. Feel free to reach out to the board with any ideas or suggestions. I look forward to working with you all.

Sincerely,

Lionel S. Zuckier MD, MBA, FRCPC

President, General Clinical Nuclear Medicine Council

How to Become a Member
Membership in the General Clinical Nuclear Medicine Council is limited to members of the SNMMI. Membership can be attained by indicating the desire to join during the annual renewal of the SNMMI membership or by filing an application with the Secretary of the council.

Payment of Dues
Membership in the GCNMC requires payment of dues in the amount of $20/year. Dues are paid to SNMMI and will be due on October 1st of each year.

Benefits of Membership:
Membership makes you a part of a professional group within the SNMMI that:

Provides continuing education for professionals in the various areas relating to through sponsored symposia and continuing education courses. Each year the GCNMC puts on a Categorical Seminar or symposia, and Continuing Education Courses on topics of interest to professionals in the clinical nuclear medicine.

Provides a forum and a mechanism for discussion and dissemination of information relating to the clincal nuclear medicine. The GCNMC members receive periodic Newsletters and electronic mailings containing information on professional activities, government issues, and a host of other topics related to clinical nuclear medicine. Members will soon have access to GCNMC Web pages and e-communicites, which will contain timely and archived information relating to a variety of topics in clinical nuclear medicine.

Provides expertise in clinical nuclear medicine to SNMMI leadership and to groups outside of SNMMI seeking such expertise. The GCNMC has representation in a number of governance groups within SNMMI, including the Committee on Councils and the House of Delegates.

Learn more about the specific benefits the GCNMC council has to offer by emailing memberinfo@snmmi.org 

GCNMC Lifetime Achievement Award

The GCNMC Lifetime Achievement Award is established to recognize those physicians and scientists who have distinguished themselves through a career dedicated to the advancement of patient care through the field of nuclear medicine. These individuals will have provided outstanding contributions to the general nuclear medicine subspecialties including urogenital, pulmonary, musculoskeletal, endocrine and gastrointestinal imaging that have advanced the field to allow improved clinical diagnosis and patient care. 

The recipient of this year’s GCNMC Lifetime Achievement Award is Bennett Greenspan, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI.

Congratulations, Dr. Greenspan!

Bennett Greenspan, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI

Past Lifetime Achievement Award
2015: Naomi Alazraki, MD
2016: Leonard Freeman, MD
2017: Stanley Goldsmith, MD
2018: Eva Dubovsky, MD
2019: Christopher Palestro, MD
2020: Ora Israel, Sr., MD, FSNMMI
2021: Harvey Ziessman, MD
2022: Shankar Vallabhajosula, PhD
2023: Alan Maurer, MD, FSNMMI

GCNMC Lectureship Award

The Council strives to improve GCNM practice by providing continuing education, and seeks to instill camaraderie and pride in GCNM practitioners. The GCNM Lectureship recognizes an individual whose research, publications, teaching or clinical practice has furthered the use of, and who can present insights on the value of general clinical nuclear medicine procedures.

The 2024 GCNMC Lectureship awardee is Tim Van den Wyngaert, MD, PhD. 

Congratulations Dr Van den Wyngaert!

	Tim Van den Wyngaert, MD, PhD

Past GCNMC Lectureship Award Recipients
2018: William Leslie, MD
2019: Anca Avram, MD
2020: Herbert Chen, MD, FACS
2021: Philip Wells, MD, FRCPC, MSc
2022: Christopher Palestro, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI
2023: Andrew (Tip) Taylor, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI

Governance

The Society recognizes the need for sub-specialty interests/expertise within the field of nuclear medicine and moleuclar imaging. Councils provide the expertise, professional networking and educational programs for nuclear medicine professionals in respective areas and serve as a resource for development and implementatin of Society policies.

Council membership is voluntary. Councils adhere to Society Bylaws and policies, while operating under its own Operating Procedures, as approved by the House of Delegates, and its own business plan and budget, as approved by the SNMMI Board of Directors.

This section provides the following council specific information.

GCNMC Board of Directors
GCNMC Operating Procedures
GCNMC Business Plan
GCNMC Council Reports to the House of Delegates
GCNMC Past Presidents

GCNMC Lifetime Achievement Award
The award recognizes those physicians and scientists who have distinguished themselves through a career dedicated to the advancement of patient care through the field of nuclear medicine

2015: Naomi Alazraki, MD
2016: Leonard Freeman, MD
2017: Stanley Goldsmith, MD
2018: Eva Dubovsky, MD
2019: Christopher Palestro, MD
2020: Ora Israel, MD
2021: Harvey Ziessman, MD
2022: Shankar Vallabhajosula, PhD 

2023: Alan Maurer, MD, FSNMM

GCNMC Lectureship Award
This award recognizes an individual whose research, publications, teaching or clinical practice has furthered the use of, and who can present insights on, the value of general clinical nuclear medicine procedures

2018: William Leslie, MD - The Role of Nuclear Medicine in Osteoporosis: Past, Present, Future
2019: Anca Avram, MD - The evolving paradigm of radioiodine therapeutics for thyroid cancer   
2020: Herbert Chen, MD - Radioguided Techniques during Parathyroid Surgery
2021: Philip Wells, MD, FRCPC, MSc
2022: Christopher Palestro, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI 

2023: Andrew (Tip) Taylor, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI

GCNMC Mid-Winter and Annual Meeting Education Sessions
2014 Annual Meeting
2015 Mid-Winter Meeting and Annual Meeting
2016 Mid-Winter and Annual Meeting
2017 Mid-Winter and Annual Meeting
2018 Annual Meeting
2019 Mid-Winter and Annual Meeting
2020 Mid-Winter Annual Meeting - Virtual Edition
2021 Mid-Winter Meeting - Virtual Edition
2021 Annual Meeting - Virtual Edition
2022 Mid-Winter Meeting - Virtual Edition
2022 Annual Meeting
2023 Annual Meeting
2024 Mid-Winter Meeting