Fourteen new SNMMI fellows were recognized on June 13 as part of a special plenary session during the society’s 2022 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. SNMMI fellowship was established in 2016 to recognize distinguished service to the society as well as exceptional achievement in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. It is among the most prestigious formal recognitions available to longtime SNMMI members. Recognized as new fellows were: Abass Alavi, MD (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia); Johannes Czernin, MD (David Geffen School of Medicine/University of California at Los Angeles); Farrokh Dehdashti, MD (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; MO); Yuni Dewaraja, PhD (University of Michigan Medical School; Ann Arbor); Cameron Foster, MD (University of California Davis Health; Sacramento); Warren Janowitz, MD, JD (Radiology Associates of South Florida/Baptist Health; Miami, FL); Neeta Pandit-Taskar, MD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/Weill Cornell Medical College; New York, NY); Daniel Pryma, MD (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia); Lalitha Shankar, MD, PhD (National Cancer Institute; Bethesda, MD); John Sunderland, PhD (University of Iowa/University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Iowa City); Jerold Wallis, MD (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; MO); Dean Wong, MD, PhD (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; MO); Anna Wu, PhD (Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California); and Katherine Zukotynski, MD, PhD, PEng (McMaster University; Hamilton, Canada).
Selection of SNMMI Fellows is based on documented excellence in both volunteer service to the society and at least 1 of 3 areas: scientific discovery and innovation, educational efforts in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, or clinical practice of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. Fellows are entitled to use the FSNMMI designation.
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