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Sean Ruck, Contributing Editor | December 28, 2012
Over the years Larson has been awarded numerous honors including the Wylie Medal of the USFDA, SNM’s Wagner Lecture Award, the Georg Charles de Hevesy Awards of both the European and the U.S. SNM, the Sarabhai lecture medal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India, and the Pendergrass Award of the Radiologic Society of North America. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and is the 2007 Academy of Molecular Imaging Distinguished Clinician Scientist.
Alavi and Larson are among the 12 individuals who have been presented this prestigious $25,000 award by the Education and Research Foundation for SNM since 1994.
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Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
Each year, SNM presents the Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Award to an individual for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear medicine. De Hevesy received the 1943 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in determining the absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of radioactive compounds in the human body. His work led to the foundation of nuclear medicine as a tool for diagnosis and therapy and he is considered the father of nuclear medicine. SNM has given the de Hevesy Award every year since 1960 to honor groundbreaking work in the field of nuclear medicine.
The list of previous recipients of this award includes numerous Nobel laureates—such as Ernest Lawrence, who built the world’s first cyclotron for the production of radionuclides, and Glenn Seaborg, who discovered more than half a dozen new elements.
Daniel S. Berman, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has been named as this year’s recipient of the Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his contributions to the nuclear medicine profession.
In addition to his post as professor at UCLA, Berman serves in several capacities at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is director of nuclear cardiology/ cardiac imaging, professor of imaging, attending physician in the departments of Imaging and Medicine, and codirector of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program.
