Johnson has an associate degree from The George Washington University; her BS in business administration, BA in management and MBA are from the University of Phoenix. She holds the NCT certificate and is one of the authors of the Nuclear Cardiology Technology Study Guide. Johnson has been involved with the SNMMI-TS at the local, regional and national levels for many years and became an SNMMI-TS Fellow in 2012. During Johnson’s tenure as president, SNMMI-TS accomplished many new initiatives, including a new CT educational course, radiation safety education, PET/MR education and resources, new international collaborations and partnerships, completion of the Quality Benchmarking Study and Final Report, continued growth of advocacy efforts and revisions to the Scope of Practice.

OUTSTANDING JNMT ARTICLES
The editor of JNMT, Norman E. Bolus, MSPH, MPH, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS, and members of the journal’s editorial board announced in April the winners of annual awards for outstanding articles. The awards were presented at the annual SNMMI-TS business meeting in June.
The Editor’s Choice Awards for the 3 best JNMT articles in 2016 went to:

Grace Brayshaw, Sharon Mosley, and Geoff Currie, Faculty of Science, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, for “Increased Gastric Activity on Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.” J Nucl Med Technol. 2016;44:195–198.
Yoya Tomita, Masaki Ishida, Yasutaka Ichikawa, Naohisa Suzawa, Shigeki Kobayashi, Hisato Maeda, Kan Takeda, and Hajime Sakuma, Central Division of Radiology, Mie University Hospital, Tsu, Mie, Japan, for “The Effect of Misregistration Between CT-Attenuation and PET-Emission Images in 13N-Ammonia Myocardial PET/CT.” J Nucl Med Technol. 2016;44:73–77.
Sarah R. Pigmon, Kara D. Weatherman, Nicholas C. Brehl, and Cybil J. Nielsen, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, for “The Necessity of Using Heparin in the UltraTag RBC Kit When Tagging Blood for a Nuclear Medicine Study.” J Nucl Med Technol. 2016;44:230–233.
In addition, the Editor’s Choice Award for the best JNMT continuing education article went to Shelley N. Acuff and Dustin Osborne, Department of Radiology, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, for “Clinical Workflow Considerations for Implementation of Continuous-Bed-Motion PET/CT.” J Nucl Med Technol. 2016;44:55–58.

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