Academic Council's Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Alan H. Maurer

Alan H. Maurer, professor of radiology and medicine and director of nuclear medicine at the School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., was awarded the Academic Council's Lifetime Achievement Award.


Maurer's research interests include cardiac ventricular function and myocardial perfusion studies, gastrointestinal motility and PET/CT molecular imaging.

He holds bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and human studies from Brown University, Providence, R.I.; a master's degree in biomedical electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine.

Robert J. Lull Memorial Lecture Delivered by Martin P. Sandler

SNM 2006-07 President Martin P. Sandler presented the Robert J. Lull Memorial Lecture and addressed "Leadership in Building a Successful Nuclear Medicine Department." The society's Academic Council organized the lecture, which is presented in memory of the late Robert J. Lull, a physician and director of the nuclear medicine residency program at the University of California, San Francisco.

Sandler is the associate vice chancellor for hospital affairs for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. He previously served as chair of its School of Medicine's radiology and radiological sciences department from 2000-06. Over the years, his various hospital appointments have included vice chair of the radiology and radiological sciences department, 1992-2000; director of the nuclear medicine/PET section, 1987-2000; director of the nuclear medicine residency training program, 1987-88; and director of clinical nuclear medicine, 1983-86, all at Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and consultant physician in the department of medicine at the University of Witwatersrand Teaching Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1979-80.

Sandler received his medical training at the Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He was a resident physician at the Groote Schuur and Johannesburg General hospitals, training in internal medicine and endocrinology. A consultant physician in the department of medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, Sandler then completed fellowship training in the endocrinology and metabolism and nuclear medicine divisions at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Sandler, who is certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine and the South African Board of Internal Medicine, completed a five-year term in 2003 as editor in chief of SNM's Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

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