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SNMMI and SNMMI-TS Announce 2020 Leadership Academy Candidates
January 10, 2020
SNMMI is pleased to announce the selected candidates for both the SNMMI Future Leaders Academy and the SNMMI-TS Leadership Academy, taking place in conjunction with the SNMMI 2020 Mid-Winter Meeting. These highly competitive leadership development workshops only accept a limited number of applicants each year and are considered the cornerstone of SNMMI’s governance training for committee chairs, council and center leadership, and the SNMMI and SNMMI-TS executive boards.
SNMMI-TS Leadership Academy has seen 168 graduates since it’s inception in 2007. The SNMMI Future Leaders Academy was then created in 2014 and since then has graduated 41 participants. We look forward to seeing what leadership positions these future graduates will strive to hold!
2020 SNMMI Future Leaders Academy Candidates:
| Yoram Baum, MD | Emory University |
| Sarah Cheal, PhD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| Ryan Downey, MD | University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| Shadi Esfahani, MD, MPH | Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Pedram Heidari, MD, MPH | Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Mary Ellen Koran, MD, PhD | Stanford |
| Courtney Lawhn Heath, MD | University of California San Francisco |
| Maria Menendez, DVM, PhD | Ohio State University |
| Domnique Newallo, MD | Emory University |
| Thomas Ng, MD, PhD | Brigham and Womens Hospital |
| Darpan Pandya, PhD | Wake Forest |
| Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau, MD, MSc | Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal |
| Daniella Pinho, MD | UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| Ali Salavati, MD, MPH | University of Minnesota |
| Vanessa Sanders, PhD | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
2020 SNMMI-TS Leadership Academy Candidates:
| Roberta Alvarez, MS, ARRT(N)(MR) | Hartford Healthcare Medical Group |
| Rebecca Gallagher, CNMT | Jeanes Hospital |
| Jose Meza, CNMT,PET,NCT,R.T.(N) | VA North Texas Healthcare System |
| Samantha Miller, RT(N) | Gottlieb Memorial Hospital |
| Christopher Owens, CNMT, PET, RT(R)(CT)(MR)(N) | Florida Cancer Specialist and Research Institute |
| Laura Wotta, CNMT | CentraCare Health |
| Garrett Anderson | Loma Linda University |
| Taylor Steenburgen | Kaiser Permanente School Of Allied Health |
| Thalia Zolis | Robert Morris University |
| Nicole LaBrecque | Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences |
| Keexia Osborne | Indiana University School of Medicine |
Congratulations to all those selected for these exclusive programs!