Committee on Quality, Evidence, and Patient Safety

Committee Mission

Ensure that the members of SNMMI provide high quality care to their patients during examinations and treatments they perform.

Committee Goals

  • Develop educational materials to promote patient safety and continuous process improvement. 
  • Collaborate with the Committee on Community Based Practice to develop resources specific to community-based practice and rural centers.
  • Collaborate with regulatory bodies, such as CMS, on quality of practice related issues.
  • Review all NCCN guidelines in which nuclear medicine plays a role and submit comments to add any missing imaging or therapies.

Committee Members

  • Heather Jacene, MD, FSNMMI (President)
  • Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD, FSNMMI (Co-Chairperson)
  • Ashwin Singh Parihar, MBBS, MD (Co-Chairperson)
  • Heather Jacene, MD, FSNMMI (Board Liaison)
  • Twyla B. Bartel, DO, FACNM, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • David Brandon, MD (Committee Member)
  • Scott Degenhardt, NMAA (Committee Member)
  • Mehdi Djekidel, MD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Kevin J. Donohoe, MD (Committee Member)
  • Krystle W. Glasgow, CNMT,NMTCB(CT),NMAA, (Committee Member)
  • Erin Grady, MD,CCD,FACNM,FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Adeel Haq, MD (Committee Member)
  • Judy Rose James, Medical Physicist (Committee Member)
  • Serge K. Lyashchenko, PharmD (Committee Member)
  • Helen R. Nadel, MD, FRCPC, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Domnique Newallo, MD, RT (R) (CT) (Committee Member)
  • Juan C. Ocampo, PhD, DABSNM (Committee Member)
  • Christian T. Schmitt, MD (Committee Member)
  • Partha Sinha, MD, MBA, FACNM (Committee Member)
  • Carlos F. Uribe, PhD, MCCPM (Committee Member)