Advocacy Committee (SNMMI-TS)

Committee Charges for 2021-22:

  • Enhance awareness of advocacy and optimize grassroots activity.
  • Support all TAGs in their effort to monitor any changes in their state’s legislative process that affect Nuclear Medicine.
  • Encourage TAGs to present CE lectures at all chapters to increase awareness and understanding of the important role that advocacy plays in everyday practice.
  • Include all TAGs in bi-monthly conference calls/online meetings to review activity, provide overall opportunity to hear from other TAGs, and educate TAGs on licensure processes.
  • Create short educational webinars for TAG members and other nuclear medicine stakeholders to increase knowledge of how the lobbying process works in each state.
  • Support SOP committee with their goals and objectives.
  • Include all SOP members in bi-monthly conference calls to establish a forum for the completion of goals and objectives.
  • Educate regulators and legislators by:
    • Working closely with HPRA to assure that regulations and/or legislation does not inhibit the practice of nuclear medicine. These include but are not limited to:
      • CMS
      • FDA
      • DOE
      • NRC
      • DHS

Additional Goals for 2021-22:

  • Monitor the State TAG program
  • Partner with CRCPD and OAS to educate regulators in nuclear medicine and to assure that state legislation and regulations do not encroach on the CNMT’s SOP.
  • Create a task force to work with CRCPD and OAS liaisons to develop a white paper position statement on our MPA.
  • Work closely with the Educators Committee to be sure our SOP is in line with our core curriculum.

Committee Members

  • Cybil J. Nielsen, MBA, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS (Chairperson)
  • Lyndsi M. Hay, MS, CNMT, RT(N) (Vice-Chairperson)
  • Dmitry D. Beyder, MPA, CNMT (Ex-Officio Member)
  • Tina M. Buehner, PhD, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS (Committee Member)
  • Sarah R. Gibbons, MBA, CNMT, NMTCB(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Lucas J. Gross, MS, CNMT, RT(N) (Committee Member)
  • Duane A. Hollier, Sr., CNMT, ARRT(N), BS (Committee Member)
  • Jeremy L. Iman, CNMT, PET, CRA, CT (Committee Member)
  • David Kelkis, CNMT, NMTCB(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Cindi Luckett-Gilbert, MHA,CNMT,FSNMMITS (Committee Member)
  • Joseph R. MacLean, MHA, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • April Mann, MBA,CNMT,NCT,RT(N) (Committee Member)
  • Nancy McDonald, MHA, CRA, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Matthew C. McMahon, MS, CNMT, RT(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Edward A. Melvin, CNMT BA (Committee Member)
  • Thomas M. Morneau, CNMT, RT(N) (Committee Member)
  • Togustine L. Nguyen, RT(R)(N)(CT)ARRT, BA (Committee Member)
  • Clay E. Nuquist, BS,CNMT,PET,FSNMMITS (Committee Member)
  • Keexia Osborne, CNMT,NMTCB(CT),RT(N) (Committee Member)
  • Michele A. Panichi-Egberts, CNMT,RT(N),FSNMMI-TS (Committee Member)
  • Lynne T. Roy, MBA, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS (Committee Member)
  • Justin Saner, CNMT, ARSO, MPA (NM) (Committee Member)
  • Melissa M. Snody, BS, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Janice D. Van Dolsen, BHS, RT(N), CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Ann M. Voslar, MHA/Ed, RT(N), CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Miriam Naa Yarley Yartey, BSC Mol. Bio. Biot (Committee Member)
  • Dusty M. York, CNMT, PET, RT(N)(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Shannon Nixon Youngblood, Ed.D, MSRS, BS, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Angelique Marie Zmudzin (Committee Member)
  • Christina M. Arenas, JD, MPH (Liaison)
  • Nikki Wenzel-Lamb, MBA, CAE (Liaison)