Educator's Committee (SNMMI-TS)

Committee Charges:

Goal A: Increase Membership

  • Create specific education offerings for students to encourage them to renew membership
  • Achieve buy-in from program directors regarding the importance of the SNMMI-TS and the benefits it offers
  • Create a program that will pair students with an experienced mentor. The mentor should stay with the student throughout the program.

Goal B: Enhance Marketing

  • Develop materials that outline the benefits of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging – introduce sessions or workshops in collaboration with other organizations or specialty groups
  • Promote the profession to high school and undergraduate students
    • Create a program for educators to use when working with high school students and when visiting high schools and high school program
    • Collaborate with high school counselors to ensure they have information about the profession
  • Identify and network with specific organizations to maximize the visibility of the profession
    • Collaborate with other organizations of the healthcare profession on education activities

Goal C: Improve Leadership

  • Create career-enhancing initiatives and programs for SNMMI-TS members
  • Be more proactive in identifying young, passionate, dedicated technologists and recruit the into SNMMI activities
    • Bring 5-10 new technologists into governance each year
    • Expand mentor program
    • Update mentoring plan so that mentors understand their roles and expectations
    • Have mentor and mentee work together to set short-term and long-term goals
    • Formulate teaching strategies that will accommodate the different learning styles and generational perspectives

Goal D: Advance Education

  • Increase the number of online or live educational offerings for technologists
    • Include specific sessions on emerging technologies and interdisciplinary education
    • Increase or create education opportunities for other modalities
  • Continue to promote the SNMMI-TS curriculum guide as the standard for the profession
    • Work to transition all educational programs to include the recent revision of the curriculum guide by 2015

Goal G: Improve Resource Management

  • Increase development of revenue-producing programs
  • Update Review of Nuclear Medicine Technology book

Resources:

Nuclear Medicine Technology Competency-Based Curriculum Guide (5th Edition)

Goals for 2021-22

  • Design and develop a repository for educators. 
  • Design and develop clinical instructor modules.
  • Plan the educator’s forum for the 2022 annual meeting.
  • Work with a group from the Membership Committee to recruit Nuclear Medicine Technologist Program Directors as members.

Committee Members

  • Julie Dawn Bolin, MS, CNMT (Co-Chairperson)
  • Dusty M. York, CNMT, PET, RT(N)(CT) (Co-Chairperson)
  • Dmitry D. Beyder, MPA, CNMT (Ex-Officio Member)
  • Crystal Botkin, PhD, MPH, CNMT, PET, FSNMMI-TS (Committee Member)
  • Amy B. Brady, MAED, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Michelle Coppens, CNMT, PET, RT (CT) (Committee Member)
  • Courtney Cross, MBA, RT(N)(CT),CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Geoffrey M. Currie, PhD BPharm MMRS CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Danielle Deimer, MEd, BS, CNMT, RT(N) (Committee Member)
  • Sarah A. Frye, PhD, MBA, CNMT, CCRP (Committee Member)
  • Regina M. Garrard (Committee Member)
  • Remo George, PhD (Committee Member)
  • Sarah R. Gibbons, MBA, CNMT, NMTCB(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Norma Green Gutierrez, MBA, RT(N) (Committee Member)
  • David Kelkis, CNMT, NMTCB(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Anthony W. Knight, PhD,CNMT,RT(N),NCT,F (Committee Member)
  • Deborah LeMay, MPH, RT(R)(N) (Committee Member)
  • Robert J. Loch, PhD, MBA, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Agdanamai Luis, MEd, RT(N), CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Jennifer A. Miles, MS, RT(N), CNMT, NCT (Committee Member)
  • Jasmin Miller, DBA, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Cybil J. Nielsen, MBA, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS (Committee Member)
  • Patricia M. O'Neal, CNMT, NCT (Committee Member)
  • Jennifer L. Prekeges, MS, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS (Committee Member)
  • Nicholas W. Robinson, CNMT, PET, RT (N)(CT (Committee Member)
  • Leesa Ann Ross, MA, CNMT, PET, RT(N) (Committee Member)
  • Lauren Shanbrun, MS, CNMT, RT(N)(CT) (Committee Member)
  • Dylan J. Shimerda, CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Jay J. Smith, MA, CNMT, RT (R)(N) (Committee Member)
  • Matthew J. Ugorowski, M.Ed., CNMT, PET (Committee Member)
  • Ann M. Voslar, MHA/Ed, RT(N), CNMT (Committee Member)
  • Madhusudan Vyas, NMT (Committee Member)
  • Lisa Dickinson (Liaison)
  • Jane E. Kamm (Liaison)
  • Ann Latham (Liaison)
  • Nikki Wenzel-Lamb, MBA, CAE (Liaison)