Congratulations to ASNC's 2017 Awardees

• By: admin
• On: 10/13/2017 17:56:04
• In: Annual Meeting

• Milena Henzlova, MD, PhD, MASNC
• Ronald Schwartz, MD, MASNC
• Diwakar Jain, MD, MASNC
• Raymond R. Russell, MD, PhD, MASNC
• Mark Travin, MD, MASNC
• João Vitola, MD, PhD, MASNC
• Todd Miller, MD, MASNC

ASNC congratulates the winners of the second Nuclear Cardiology Choosing Wisely® Challenge: 
1st Place: Advanced Protocol Planning in Nuclear Cardiology to Enhance Care Delivery- Brigham & Womens Boston
2nd Place: A Simplified Approach to Stress-First Nuclear Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: Implementation of ASNC Choosing Wisely Recommendations - Malcom Randall – VAMC – Univ. Florida Gainesville
3rd Place: Minimizing Radiation Exposure from Myocardial Perfusion Imaging - Aurora Cardiovascular Services – Milwaukee WI. 
ASNC thanks Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. for support of the Nuclear Cardiology Choosing Wisely® Challenge

Committees composed of Journal of Nuclear Cardiology (JNC) associate editors, guest editors and journal Board members select award recipients among a host of strong candidates. JNC Editor-in-Chief Ami E. Iskandrian, MD, MACC, MASNC presented the following awards:  

• 2017 Zaret-Beller JNC Distinguished Service Award for Best Reviewer
  Rami Doukky, MD, FASNC 
• 2017 Award for the Best Paper in Basic/Technical Research In the JNC
  Guido Germano, PhD, MBA
• 2017 Award for the Best Clinical Research Paper in the JNC
  Nili Zafrir, MD
• 2017 Ken Brown Award (Best Editorial)
  ASNC President-elect Prem Soman, MD, PhD, FASNC and Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, FASNC
• 2017 Best Paper (Basic/Technical / co-author)
  Paul B. Kavanagh, MS; Terrence Ruddy, MD; R. Glenn Wells, PhD; Yuan Xu, MD; Daniel S. Berman, MD, MASNC; Piotr J.Slomka, PhD
• 2017 Best Paper (Clinical/co-author) 
  Tamir Bental, MD; Boris Strasberg, MD; Alejandro Solodky, MD; Israel Mats, MD; Ariel Gutstein, MD; Ran Kornowski, MD&‹