2020 SNMMI and SNMMI-TS Grants and Awards Recipients

2020 Grants and Awards Recipients (funded by the ERF)

Michael J. Welch Award - Henry VanBrocklin, PhD

Michael J. Welch Postdoctoral Grant - Zhen Yang, PhD

Loevinger-Berman Award - Marta Cremonesi, PhD

Robert E. Henkin, MD, Government Relatitons Fellowship - Domnique Newallo, MD and Justin Peacock, MD, PhD

Mitzi & William Blahd, MD, Pilot Research Grant - Mark Dornan, PhD

ERF-SNMMI CMIIT Laboratory Professional Recognition Award for Contributions to Molecular Imaging - Catherine Hou

Bradley-Alavi Student Fellowships: Yanson Zhu, Zachary Rosenkrans, and Matthew Dilsizian

Paul C. Aebersold, PhD Award - Carolyn Anderson, PhD

Marc Tetalman Award - Ali Salavati, MD, MPH

Ursula Mary Kocemba-Slosky, PhD Professional Relations Fellow - Lucas Gross, CNMT, RT(N)

ERF-SNMMI Medical Science Student Research Grants - Philip Manes, Catherine Meyer, Peng Lu, Zekun Li, and Amy Zhang

ERF-SNMMI JNM Best Paper Awards

Editors’ Choice Award

FOR THE BEST CLINICAL ARTICLE IN 2019

is presented to

Clemens Kratochwil, Paul Flechsig, Thomas Lindner, Labidi Abderrahim, Annette Altmann, Walter Mier, Sebastian Adeberg, Hendrik Rathke, Manuel Röhrich, Hauke Winter, Peter K. Plinkert, Frederik Marme, Matthias Lang, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Dirk Jäger, Jürgen Debus, Uwe Haberkorn, and Frederik L. Giesel

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

for

68Ga-FAPI PET/CT: Tracer Uptake in 28 Different Kinds of Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2019; 60:801–805

Editors’ Choice Award

FOR THE BEST BASIC SCIENCE ARTICLE IN 2019

is presented to

Carola Focke, Tanja Blume, Benedikt Zott, Yuan Shi, Maximilian Deussing, Finn Peters, Claudio Schmidt, Gernot Kleinberger, Simon Lindner, Franz-Josef Gildehaus, Leonie Beyer, Barbara von Ungern-Sternberg, Peter Bartenstein, Laurence Ozmen, Karlheinz Baumann, Mario M. Dorostkar, Christian Haass, Helmuth Adelsberger, Jochen Herms, Axel Rominger, and Matthias Brendel

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Munich, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

for

Early and Longitudinal Microglial Activation but Not Amyloid Accumulation Predicts Cognitive Outcome in PS2APP Mice

J Nucl Med. 2019; 60:548–554

Editors’ Choice Award

FOR THE OVERALL BEST ARTICLE IN 2019

is presented to

Clemens Kratochwil, Paul Flechsig, Thomas Lindner, Labidi Abderrahim, Annette Altmann, Walter Mier, Sebastian Adeberg, Hendrik Rathke, Manuel Röhrich, Hauke Winter, Peter K. Plinkert, Frederik Marme, Matthias Lang, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Dirk Jäger, Jürgen Debus, Uwe Haberkorn, and Frederik L. Giesel

Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

for

68Ga-FAPI PET/CT: Tracer Uptake in 28 Different Kinds of Cancer

J Nucl Med. 2019; 60:801–805

Alavi-Mandell Publication Awards - Else Aalbersberg, Olayinka Abiodun-Ojo, Hasan Alesawi, Abdullah Al-Zaghal, Charlotte Andersson, Gurdip Azad, Robin Bacher, Corinne Beinat, Marvin Berrevoets, Julian Betancur, Tobey Betthauser, Athanasios Bikas, Ganna Blazhenets, Silvan Boss, Thomas Burley, Rebecca Butof, Lukas Carter, Aisling Chaney, Kevin Chen, Mengxia Chen, Lyduine Collij, Sven De Bruycker, Francesco De Rose, Nicole Dmochowska, Ross Dolan, Oussama ElMokh, Carola Focke, Tyler Fraum, Zhequan Fu, Andrei Gafita, Anni Gaine, Ahmed Haider, Siddesh Hartimath, Kai Huang, Donghwi Hwang, Kimiteru Ito, Bernard Jansen, Yvonne Jauw, Mads Jochumsen, Shalinee Kavadiya, James Kelly, Eshita Khera, Maximilian Klingler, Gerbrand Kramer, Manoj Kumar, Hsiou-Ting Kuo, Jacek Kwiecinski, Martin Lyngby Lassen, Maike Lindemann, Teli Liu, Yaping Luo, Susanne Lutje, Ian Marsh, Sabine Maurer, Stuart McCluskey, Philippa Meershoek, Joseph Meier, Jasmin Mettler, Alan Miranda, Trina Mitchell, Matthew Nodwell, Laszlo Papp, Soumen Paul, Patricia Pereira, Sarah Piron, Ayoung Pyo, Stacy Queern, Hendrik Rathke, Max Rohde, Wolfgang Roll, Christian Sacher, Kelley Salem, Nina-Sophie Schmidt-Hegemann, Isabel Schobert, Julia Schubert, Johannes Schwenck, Tharsana Selvakumar, Riikka Siitonen, Fumihiko Soeda, Karl Spuhler, Mouna Tahmi, Angel Torrado-Carvajal, Guy-Anne Turgeon, Maria Valkema, Anouk van Berkel, Sandra van der Velden, Stan van Keulen, Joyce van Sluis, Zohreh Varasteh, Delphine Vivier, Katrine Wickstroem, Thomas Wilson, Mary-Ann Xavier, Shili Xu, Colin Young, Kaveh Zakeri, Jingjing Zhang, Mingzan Zhuang

Susan C. Weiss Clinical Advancement Scholarship - Nickie Beaulieu, Sarah Gibbons, Jaime Warren

ERF-SNMMI-TS Bachelor's or Master's Degree Completion Scholarship - Sarah Gibbons and Jordan Jayne

ERF-SNMMI-TS Advanced Degree Scholarship - Mary Beth Farrell

Paul Cole Student Technologist Scholarship - Rafat Mohamed, Kye Broom, Jean Pierre Alfonso, Amanda Lima, Alannah Macaulay, Desiree Dinko, Alexandra Herman, Jordan Gottsacker, Sheryl Dekker, Mckenzie Wills

ERF-SNMMI-TS Outstanding Technologist - Matthew C. McMahon, MS, CNMT, RT(CT)

ERF-SNMMI-TS Outstanding Educator - Geoffrey M. Currie, BPharm, MMedRadSc, MAppMngt, PhD, MBA, AM

ERF-SNMMI-TS JNMT Best Paper Awards

Editors’ Choice Award

FOR 1st PLACE ARTICLE IN 2019

is presented to

Jena-Lee McKee, Mary Beth Farrell, Kathy Hunt, Vivian Loveless, and Charity Brannen

West Tennessee Healthcare, Dyersburg Hospital, Dyersburg, Tennessee

for

Efficiency of Radiolabeling Eggs Before and After Microwave Cooking for Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy Studies
Nucl. Med. Technol. 2019;47:144–148

Editors’ Choice Award

FOR 2nd PLACE ARTICLE IN 2019

is presented to

Audrey B. Davis, Melanie H. Pietryka, and Susan Passalaqua

Banner M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Gilbert, Arizona

for

Technical Aspects and Administration Methods of 177Lu-DOTATATE for Nuclear Medicine Technologists
Nucl. Med. Technol. 2019;47:288–291

Editors’ Choice Award

FOR 3rd PLACE ARTICLE IN 2019

is presented to

Sarah Frye, Ross Frye, Barbara Sterkel, Razi Muzaffar, and Medhat M. Osman

Clinical Health Sciences, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

for

The Need for Increased Awareness About Potential Quality Control Problems in Aging γ-Cameras
Nucl. Med. Technol. 2019;47:223–226

2020 Grants and Awards Recipients (funded by the Nihon Medi-Physics)

Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship Program - Drs. Masatoshi Hott, Keiichiro Kuronuma and Yuichi Wakabayashi

2020 Grants and Awards Recipients (funded by the PDEF)

PDEF Mickey Williams Minority Scholarship - Louise Nathalie Ngalle Moukoulou and Vanessa Ducharme

PDEF Professional Development Scholarship - Jay Smith

2020 Council and Center Awards

Saul Hertz Award - Douglas VanNostrand, MD

Peter E. Valk, MD Memorial Lecuteship/Award - Drs. Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi

GCNMC Lifetime Achievement Award - Ora Isreal, Sr., MD, FSNMMI

GCNMC Lectureship Award - Herbert Chen, MD, FACS

CIC Barry Siegel Lectureship Award - Richard Wahl, MD

Tracey Lynn Faber Award - Fanny Orlahac, PhD

Edward Hoffman Lecture Award - Dimitris Visvikis, PhD

Kuhl Lassen Award - Nicolaas Bohnen, MD, PhD

Berson-Yalow Award - Reinier Hernandez, PhD

Hermann Blumgart Award - Piotr Slomka, PhD, FACC, FCCPM

CVC Outstanding Educator Award - Diwakar Jain, MD, FACC, FRCP, FASNC