SNMMI Presidential Distinguished Educator Award

Dominique Delbeke, MD, PhD, was selected for the SNMMI Presidential Distinguished Educator Award for her contributions to education and professional development as editor of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
A past president of SNMMI, Delbeke is a nuclear medicine physician, professor of radiology and radiological sciences at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and director of Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is co-editor of five textbooks and has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles, including procedure standards and 70 book chapters. Her primary expertise and research interest revolve around PET/CT and SPECT/CT, primarily in oncology but also in cardiology and neurology. She is a lifetime member of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.
Henry J. Wagner, Jr., Lectureship

Joanna S. Fowler, PhD, scientist emeritus of the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, delivered the Henry N. Wagner, Jr., Lectureship on Sunday, June 12. Her speech, “Working Against Time: Designing and Synthesizing 18FDG for the First Human Studies in 1976,” discussed the historical development 50 years ago of the radiotracer that has become the most widely used in basic research and clinical settings and has facilitated tremendous advances in the study of the human brain and in the detection of malignant tumors.

Fowler is currently a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she has collaborated with colleagues on brain imaging studies of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, among other conditions.

Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD, Best Paper Award

Mark T. Madsen, PhD, professor of radiology in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, received the Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD, Best Paper Award for “Personalized kidney dosimetry for Y-90 DOTATOC radionuclide therapy.”

Michael J. Welch Award

Robert Dannals, PhD, director of the PET Center and professor of radiology and radiological science at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Md., received the Michael J. Welch Award, which is presented annually by SNMMI’s Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to radiopharmaceutical sciences.

Dannals is well known for his pioneering research in the development of short-lived radiotracers for positron emission tomography and single photon emission-computed tomography. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University, as well as his PhD in chemistry. Dannals serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Labeled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals and is a reviewer for several professional journals, including the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and the International Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology.

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