Youngblood later worked as an EMT before becoming an assistant
professor of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Sciences at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, where she still teaches. She was a nuclear
medicine technologist at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans. At the Ochsner
Medical Center in Baton Rouge, she was a nuclear medicine/PET-CT technologist,
then advanced to the lead PET-CT position. Youngblood currently works as a nuclear
medicine technologist at Lane Regional Medical Center in Zachary and a cardiac
PET-CT technologist in Baton Rouge for CDL Nuclear Technologies.
Youngblood has been involved in SNMMI leadership since 2012,
when she became a member of the Technologist Advocacy Group. Since then, she
has served on the Uptake Editorial Board and as chair of the Bylaws Committee.
She became secretary of the SNMMI-TS Executive Board and National Council of
Representatives in 2024.
Youngblood has also been involved in leadership in the
Southwestern Chapter, beginning in 2014, when she became a board member of the
Leadership Academy Committee and then completed the academy herself. She served
twice as chapter president and board member and was an abstract judge and program
chair for several educational symposia.
Youngblood holds professional certification as a Louisiana
Fusion Technologist and is certified by the Louisiana State Radiologic
Technology Board. She holds CNMT certification from the Nuclear Medicine
Technology Certification Board and CT certification from the American Registry
of Radiologic Technologists.
The SNMMI Technologist Section president-elect for 2026-27
is Sara L. Johnson, CNMT, RT(N)(CT), Wimauma, Florida. Elected to leadership of
SNMMI for 2026-27 were Heather Jacene, MD, Boston, Massachusetts, as president;
Gary Ulaner, MD, PhD, FSNMMI, Laguna Hills, California, as president-elect, and
Jason Lewis, PhD, FSNMMI, New York, New York, as vice president-elect.
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About the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular
Imaging
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular
Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and medical organization
dedicated to advancing nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, and theranostics precision medicine that allows diagnosis and
treatment to be tailored to individual patients in order to
achieve the best possible outcomes. For more information, visit snmmi.org.