Walter Wolf Young Investigator Award

Yong-il Kim, PhD, received this year’s Walter Wolf Young Investigator Award for his abstract titled “Prognostic Value of Pre-treatment Ga-68-RGD PET-CT in Predicting Disease Free Survival in Patients with Breast Cancer: A Comparison Study with Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI.” Each year, the award recognizes a young investigator for originality, scientific methodology and overall contribution to molecular imaging or therapy through original research showing the importance and value of correlative imaging in all fields of medicine.


Hermann Blumgart Award

Prem Soman, MD, PhD, was selected by SNMMI’s Cardiovascular Council to receive the Hermann Blumgart Award. The award annually recognizes a key contributor to the science of nuclear cardiology who is also an advocate for the field through involvement with the society’s research and educational activities.
Soman is associate professor of medicine and of clinical and translational Science in the Division of Cardiology at the Vascular Medicine Institute of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pa. He is also director of the Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory and the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship at the institute. Soman is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of nuclear cardiology. He practices clinical cardiology, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Under his direction, the Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory performs high-volume, state-of-the-art imaging and is a national leader in clinical research, including the use of a new generation, solid-state SPECT camera and innovative imaging protocols that have enabled significant reductions in radiation dose to patients.

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