Kathy S. Thomas, MHA, CNMT, PET, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology (JNMT ), and members of the journal’s board of editors announced in April the winners of annual awards for outstanding articles. These awards are presented each year to the authors of articles that have contributed significantly to practice, education, and scientific understanding in the field. The first-place Editors’ Choice Award for 2021 went to Shannon N. Youngblood from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock) and Ochsner Medical Center (Baton Rouge, LA) for “Bullying in the nuclear medicine department and during clinical nuclear medicine education” (J Nucl Med Technol 2021;49:156–163). The second-place award was presented to Kyohei Okuda from Tottori University Hospital (Yonago, Japan) and coauthors Daisuke Hasegawa, Takashi Kamiya, Hajime Ichikawa, Takuro Umeda, Takushi Ohkubo, and Kenta Miwa for “Multicenter study of quantitative SPECT: Reproducibility of 99mTc quantitation using a conjugated-gradient minimization reconstruction algorithm” (J Nucl Med Technol. 2021;49:138–142).
Pietro Paolo de Barros, from the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Santa Catarina–IFSC (Florianópolis, Brazil), and coauthors Tatiane Sabriela Cagol Camozzato, Tiago Jahn, Flávio Augusto Penna Soares, Letícia Machado da Silva, Jacqueline de Aguiar Soares, and Marco Antonio Neiva Koslosky received the third-place award for “Analysis of radiometry on patients undergoing radioactive iodine therapy” (J Nucl Med Technol. 2021;49:75–81).
Julie Bolin from the Nuclear Medicine Technology Program at GateWay Community College (Phoenix, AZ) was the recipient of the award for best continuing education article for “Thyroid follicular epithelial cell–derived cancer: New approaches and treatment strategies” (J Nucl Med Techol. 2021;49:199–208). The award for best educators’ forum article went George Patchoros and Grace Wenzler from Bronx Community College (NY) for “Satisfying program-level outcomes by integrating primary literature into the online classroom” (J Nucl Med Technol. 2021;49:170–174).
“These outstanding articles show not only the diversity and complexity of research and education in our field, they represent extraordinary achievements by frontline care specialists during a very challenging time,” said Thomas. “I am especially proud that these award-winning authors address not only technical and practice issues but ethical questions to which we all should be more sensitive. We congratulate this year’s awardees and all those whose contributions continue to make JNMT a vital resource for our community.”
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