Committee on Ethics

Committee Charges

  • To develop and maintain a professional code of ethics for nuclear medicine professionals.
  • To ensure that all SNMMI activities are held to high ethical standards.
  • To provide advice and counsel to the SNMMI Board of Directors, House of Delegates, and other SNMMI committees or task forces on ethics-related issues as may be requested from time to time by such entities.
  • Liaison for SNMMI to the ethics programs/activities of other medical specialty organizations (i.e., CMSS, AMA, ACR, etc.), and seek opportunities to work with these other organizations on issues of mutual interest with respect to ethics.
  • To implement and maintain a conflict of interest disclosure process for all key volunteer leaders of SNMMI.
  • Review and update Conflict of Interest Policy periodically.

Committee Members

  • Bruce Jonathan Barron, MD, FACNM (Chairperson)
  • Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD, FSNMMI (Board Liaison)
  • Helen R. Nadel, MD, FRCPC, FSNMMI (Ex-Officio Member)
  • Sue H. Abreu, MD, JD, FACNM (Committee Member)
  • Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Warren R. Janowitz, MD,JD,FACNM,FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Anthony W. Knight, PhD,CNMT,RT(N),NCT,F (Committee Member)
  • Sandi A. Kwee, MD (Committee Member)
  • Osama R. Mawlawi, PhD (Committee Member)
  • Alan B. Packard, PhD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • David M. Schuster, MD (Committee Member)
  • Anwer Sheikh, MD (Committee Member)
  • Theodore J. Stahl, MD, ABNM, FACNM (Committee Member)
  • Arnold M. Strashun, MD, FSNMMI (Committee Member)
  • Jean-Luc C. Urbain, MD, PhD, CPE, FASNC (Committee Member)
  • Reza Vali, MD (Committee Member)
  • Virginia Pappas, CAE,FSNMMI(H), FSNMM (Liaison)
  • Nikki Wenzel-Lamb, MBA, CAE (Liaison)