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Advocacy Committee (SNMMI-TS)
Committee Charges for 2021-22:
- Enhance awareness of advocacy and optimize grassroots activity.
- Support all TAGs in their effort to monitor any changes in their state’s legislative process that affect Nuclear Medicine.
- Encourage TAGs to present CE lectures at all chapters to increase awareness and understanding of the important role that advocacy plays in everyday practice.
- Include all TAGs in bi-monthly conference calls/online meetings to review activity, provide overall opportunity to hear from other TAGs, and educate TAGs on licensure processes.
- Create short educational webinars for TAG members and other nuclear medicine stakeholders to increase knowledge of how the lobbying process works in each state.
- Support SOP committee with their goals and objectives.
- Include all SOP members in bi-monthly conference calls to establish a forum for the completion of goals and objectives.
- Educate regulators and legislators by:
- Working closely with HPRA to assure that regulations and/or legislation does not inhibit the practice of nuclear medicine. These include but are not limited to:
- CMS
- FDA
- DOE
- NRC
- DHS
- Working closely with HPRA to assure that regulations and/or legislation does not inhibit the practice of nuclear medicine. These include but are not limited to:
Additional Goals for 2021-22:
- Monitor the State TAG program
- Partner with CRCPD and OAS to educate regulators in nuclear medicine and to assure that state legislation and regulations do not encroach on the CNMT’s SOP.
- Create a task force to work with CRCPD and OAS liaisons to develop a white paper position statement on our MPA.
- Work closely with the Educators Committee to be sure our SOP is in line with our core curriculum.
Committee Members
| Cybil J. Nielsen, MBA, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Chairperson |
| Lyndsi M. Hay, MS, CNMT, RT(N) | Vice-Chairperson |
| Dmitry D. Beyder, MPA, CNMT | Ex-Officio Member |
| Tina M. Buehner, PhD, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Sarah R. Gibbons, MBA, CNMT, NMTCB(CT) | Committee Member |
| Lucas J. Gross, MS, CNMT, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Duane A. Hollier, Sr., CNMT, ARRT(N), BS | Committee Member |
| Jeremy L. Iman, CNMT, PET, CRA, CT | Committee Member |
| David Kelkis, CNMT, NMTCB(CT) | Committee Member |
| Cindi Luckett-Gilbert, MHA,CNMT,FSNMMITS | Committee Member |
| Joseph R. MacLean, MHA, CNMT | Committee Member |
| April Mann, MBA,CNMT,NCT,RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Nancy McDonald, MHA, CRA, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Matthew C. McMahon, MS, CNMT, RT(CT) | Committee Member |
| Edward A. Melvin, CNMT BA | Committee Member |
| Thomas M. Morneau, CNMT, RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Togustine L. Nguyen, RT(R)(N)(CT)ARRT, BA | Committee Member |
| Clay E. Nuquist, BS,CNMT,PET,FSNMMITS | Committee Member |
| Keexia Osborne, CNMT,NMTCB(CT),RT(N) | Committee Member |
| Michele A. Panichi-Egberts, CNMT,RT(N),FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Lynne T. Roy, MBA, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS | Committee Member |
| Justin Saner, CNMT, ARSO, MPA (NM) | Committee Member |
| Melissa M. Snody, BS, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Janice D. Van Dolsen, BHS, RT(N), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Ann M. Voslar, MHA/Ed, RT(N), CNMT | Committee Member |
| Miriam Naa Yarley Yartey, BSC Mol. Bio. Biot | Committee Member |
| Dusty M. York, CNMT, PET, RT(N)(CT) | Committee Member |
| Shannon Nixon Youngblood, Ed.D, MSRS, BS, CNMT | Committee Member |
| Angelique Marie Zmudzin | Committee Member |
| Christina M. Arenas, JD, MPH | Liaison |
| Nikki Wenzel-Lamb, MBA, CAE | Liaison |