From the December 2013 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
This year’s awardee is Adam R. Travis, MD of University of Chicago Medical Center for the paper, “Improving Communication of Image Measurement Data Through Use of a Dedicated Structured Radiology Report Section: An Institutional Survey of Clinician Preferences.”
SNMMI
Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
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Each year, SNMMI 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. SNMMI has given the de Hevesy Award every year since 1960 to honor groundbreaking work in the field of nuclear medicine.
S. Ted Treves, MD, professor of radiology and director of the Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been named as this year’s recipient.
In addition to his positions at Harvard Medical School, Treves serves in several capacities at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. Treves founded the first division of nuclear medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and served at its chief for more than 40 years. He is a founding member of the JPNM and has served as director of its Residency Training Program in Nuclear Medicine. He has been a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Radiopharmaceutical Advisory Committee. He is also a lifetime member of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. Treves founded the first Boston Children’s Hospital Small Animal Imaging Laboratory (SAIL).
As the leader of the Image Gently Nuclear Medicine Group, he has led initiatives toward radiation dose reduction in pediatric nuclear medicine, culminating with the 2010 North American Consensus Guidelines for Pediatric Radiopharmaceutical Administered Doses. Treves has several inventions and patents in his name, including a patient-specific method for the detection of seizures. He has written more than 360 journal articles, books and book chapters on these topics.
