Honolulu, HI – Johannes Czernin, MD from David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California – Los Angeles has been selected
to give the Taplin Lecture at the 2025 Meeting of the Western Regional Society of Nuclear Medicine to be held November 14-16, 2025 at the Prince Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The annual Memorial Lecture is named after George V. Taplin, MD, distinguished physician and a pioneer in the development of nuclear medicine as a clinical specialty. His career in medical research spanned more than four decades and was devoted to developing new diagnostic procedures for better patient care.
Dr. Johannes Czernin is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He received his MD degree from the University of Vienna in 1983 and was board certified in Internal Medicine in Austria in 1989 and in Nuclear Medicine in 1996 in the USA.
Czernin was named Director of Nuclear Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 1996 and currently serves as the Chief of the Ahmanson Translational Theranostics Division at UCLA.
Dr. Czernin is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and is a past president of the Academy of Molecular Imaging. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers.