Committee on Awards

Committee Charges

  • Choose Aebersold Award recipient.
  • Evaluate competitive applications and select recipients of ERF-funded grants and awards for physicians, scientists, and students.
  • Develop criteria, award processes and related materials for new SNMMI grants and awards.
  • Conduct an annual review of current ERF funded grants and awards that are non-donor designated to determine their usefulness in meeting needs of the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging community and in advancing the Society’s strategic goals and value initiatives.
  • Recommend to the SNMMI Board of Directors grant and award fund raising opportunities and prioritization.
  • Report on the grants and awards program to the SNMMI Board of Directors and House of Delegates.

Committee Members

  • Richard L. Wahl, MD,FACR,FACNM,FSNMMI (Chairperson)
  • Munir Ghesani, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI (Vice-Chairperson)
  • Munir Ghesani, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI (Board Liaison)
  • Helen R. Nadel, MD, FRCPC, FSNMMI (Ex-Officio Member)
  • Weibo Cai, PhD, FAIMBE, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD (Committee Member)
  • Gary L. Dillehay, MD,FACNM,FACR,FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Sharmila Dorbala, MD (Committee Member)
  • Georges N. El Fakhri, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Munir Ghesani, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Pedram Heidari, MD (Committee Member)
  • Peter Herscovitch, MD,FACP,FRCPC,FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Hyewon Hyun, MD (Committee Member)
  • Andrei H. Iagaru, MD, FACNM (Committee Member)
  • Frances K. Keech, DHSc, RT(N), FSNMTS (Committee Member)
  • Adam L. Kesner, PhD (Committee Member)
  • Suzanne E. Lapi, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Jason S. Lewis, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Steven H. Liang, PhD (Committee Member)
  • Ruth Lim, MD (Committee Member)
  • Robert Henry Mach, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Osama R. Mawlawi, PhD (Committee Member)
  • Alan B. Packard, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Todd E. Peterson, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Jack J. Slosky, PhD,MBA,FACNM,FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Tracy L. Yarbrough, MD, PhD, MAEd, FACNM (Committee Member)
  • Dusty M. York, CNMT, PET, RT(N)(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Teresa Ellmer, MIS, CNMT (Liaison)
  • Nikki Wenzel-Lamb, MBA, CAE (Liaison)