Bartel grew up in Japan, where her parents served as
missionaries, living there for 17 years and becoming fluent in Japanese. She
earned her DO from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in
2001, then completed a nuclear medicine residency and PET/CT fellowship at the
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2005 and a diagnostic radiology
residency in Arkansas in 2014. She also held an MBA and was dual
board-certified in nuclear medicine and radiology. She previously served as PET
director and chief of nuclear medicine at the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences before becoming co-owner, with Dr. Tracy Yarbrough, of Global
Advanced Imaging, PLLC, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Bartel contributed extensively to SNMMI. She was the SNMMI
PET Advisory Committee (formerly PET Centers of Excellence) president and SNMMI
Women in Nuclear Medicine Committee vice-chair. She served on the SNMMI Board
of Directors and House of Delegates, was president of the Academic and
Correlative Imaging councils, and was a long-standing member of numerous other
SNMMI committees. She also worked on clinical guidelines, safety and quality
projects, publications, research, government relations, advocacy, and many
other areas. She was both a national and an international speaker, including as
Highlights speaker for general clinical specialties at the SNMMI Annual Meeting,
and was an author and reviewer for both JNM and JNMT.