SNMMI Names 2022 Fellows

On Monday, June 13 during a plenary session at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2022 Annual Meeting, the society recognized 15 new SNMMI Fellows.

The SNMMI Fellowship was established in 2016 to recognize distinguished service to the society as well as exceptional achievement in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. It is among the most prestigious formal recognitions available to long-time SNMMI members.

All past SNMMI presidents were granted Fellowship at the 2016 Annual Meeting. Now SNMMI’s 2021-22 president, Richard Wahl, MD, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, (pictured) has joined their ranks. Also recognized were:

• Abass Alavi, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Johannes Czernin, MD, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
• Farrokh Dehdashti, MD, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
• Yuni Dewaraja, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Cameron Foster, MD, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, California
• Warren Janowitz, MD, JD, Radiology Associates of South Florida, Baptist Health, Miami, Florida
• Neeta Pandit-Taskar, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
• Daniel Pryma, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Lalitha Shankar, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
• John Sunderland, PhD, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa)
• Jerold Wallis, MD, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
• Dean Wong, MD, PhD, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
• Anna Wu, PhD, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California
• Katherine Zukotynski, MD, PhD, Peng, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Selection of SNMMI Fellows is based on documented excellence of volunteer service to the society and at least one of the additional three areas: excellence in scientific discovery and innovation, educational efforts in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, or clinical practice of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. SNMMI Fellowship is recognized with the designation FSNMMI.