HPRA: State TAG Issues

California: In 2017, a bill in California was seeing movement that would have allowed students being trained in the profession of nuclear medicine be paid minimum wage by their clinical sites was defeated.  If it had not been defeated, these sites would have been less likely to support the state’s…

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Lalitha Ramanna, MD and Jennifer Prekeges, MS to Receive Western Region SNM Distinguished Service Awards

Vancouver, BC – The Western Region Society of Nuclear Medicine (WRSNM) will honor Lalitha Ramanna, MD, from Providence Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance, CA and Jennifer Prekeges, Program Chair, Nuclear Medicine Technology at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington with the presentation of their Distinguished Service Award. The Award…

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2017 Robert E. Henkin Government Relations Fellowship Application Being Accepted

SNMMI is currently accepting applications for the 2017 Robert E. Henkin Government Relations Fellowship. The fellowship is designed to provide gifted and highly motivated young nuclear and molecular imaging professionals with first-hand experience in the process of health policy development. Young professionals are defined as residents, fellows (physician), scientists or…

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