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ACMUI Membership
The Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) membership includes health care professionals from various disciplines. The ACMUI is composed of the following: a nuclear medicine physician; a nuclear cardiologist; a medical physicist in nuclear medicine unsealed byproduct material; a medical physicist in radiation therapy; a radiation safety officer; a nuclear pharmacist; two radiation oncologists; a patients' rights advocate; a Food and Drug Administration representative; an Agreement State representative; a health care administrator; and a diagnostic radiologist.
Membership on ACMUI is gained through a formal nomination and selection process. To fill vacancies on the ACMUI, NRC staff publishes a notice in the Federal Register requesting nominations from interested parties. After receipt of nominations, the NRC staff convenes a selection panel consisting of NRC employees and an individual who is a non-NRC Federal employee. This non-NRC Federal employee is always a professional who specializes in the vacancy to be filled. The selection panel evaluates each nominee and sends a recommendation for appointment by the Director, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs. The Director reviews the recommendation, consults with the Commission, and appoints the ACMUI member.
ACMUI members are appointed to four-year terms and, with approval from NRC, may elect to serve up to two consecutive terms, for a maximum term of eight years.
ACMUI Members pictured from left to right: Dr. William Van Decker, Dr. James Welsh, Dr. Bruce Thomadsen, Ms. Laura Weil, Dr. Milton Guiberteau, Dr. Leon Malmud, Mr. Steve Mattmuller, Dr. Pat Zanzonico, Dr. Susan Langhorst, Dr. Orhan Suleiman, Dr. John Suh, and Dr. Christopher Palestro.
For additional information on ACMUI membership see the list of ACMUI Specialties and Functions and NUREG/BR-0309, "Serving on the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI): A Member's Guide."
Select one of the following names for biographical information.
Chairman: Leon S. Malmud, M.D., Health Care Administrator
Vice Chairman: Bruce R. Thomadsen, Ph.D., Medical Physicist, Radiation Therapy
Members:
Darice G. Bailey, Agreement State Representative
Milton J. Guiberteau, M.D., Diagnostic Radiologist
Susan M. Langhorst, Ph.D., Radiation Safety Officer
Steven R. Mattmuller, Nuclear Pharmacist
Christopher J. Palestro, M.D., Nuclear Medicine Physician
John H. Suh, M.D., Radiation Oncologist
Orhan H. Suleiman, Ph.D., Food and Drug Administration Representative
William A. Van Decker, M.D., Nuclear Cardiologist
Laura M. Weil, Patients' Rights Advocate
James S. Welsh, M.D., Radiation Oncologist
Pat B. Zanzonico, Ph.D., Medical Physicist, Nuclear Medicine
Darice G. Bailey
Darice G. Bailey has been selected as the state government representative on the ACMUI.
Ms. Bailey earned a Bachelor of Science degree from East Tennessee State University. She is currently a Health Physicist for Texas’s Department of State Health Services where she is the manager of the Radioactive Materials Group. She is responsible for managing the efforts of the radioactive materials inspection staff for the State of Texas. This group is responsible for inspecting and ensuring compliance of all radioactive materials licensees in the State of Texas, as well as licensees working under reciprocity in Texas. She also serves as a member of the radiological emergency response team. Ms. Bailey has over 27 years of experience in radiation regulation. She has worked as a health physicist for the states of Tennessee, California and Texas in capacities ranging from inspection and enforcement to low-level radioactive waste licensing and oversight of U.S. Department of Defense decommissioning efforts.
Ms. Bailey has been involved with the Organization of Agreement States as the Agreement State representative on working groups. These efforts include two related to medical uses of radioisotopes, the Ritenour Petition Working Group and the most recent 10CFR Part 35 revision working group. She participated, with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in the Security of Radioactive Materials Workshop held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Milton J. Guiberteau, M.D.
Milton J. Guiberteau, M.D., serves as the diagnostic radiologist representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Guiberteau was appointed in January 2011.
Dr. Guiberteau earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (Summa Cum Laude) in English Literature at Rice University. He received his MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine and served an internship at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. He completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology and Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard University) where he also served as an NIH Academic Fellow and Harvard Medical School Teaching Fellow.
Dr. Guiberteau is board certified by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) in Diagnostic Radiology and holds an additional Certificate of Added Qualification in Nuclear Radiology. He is a participant in the ABR’s Maintenance of Certification Program. He is also certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine.
Following his Residency/Fellowship, Dr. Guiberteau served as a Major in the United States Army and as Chief of Nuclear Medicine at the 7th U.S. Army, Second General Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany and Consultant to the Surgeon General in Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Guiberteau subsequently joined the Diagnostic Radiology Faculty at the University of Texas Medical School-Houston as Professor of Diagnostic Radiology. He also served as Chair of the Department of Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology, Radiation Safety Officer, and Chief of Women’s Imaging Services at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston.
Dr. Guiberteau is currently Academic Chief of Radiology, Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Chief of Women’s Imaging at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston and is a member of the medical staffs at CHRISTUS St. John and St. Catherine Hospitals. He currently holds the position of Professor of Clinical Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School-Houston. He is past-President and CEO of Greater Houston Radiology Associates.
Dr. Guiberteau has a history of service to various local, regional and national radiology and nuclear medicine organizations with contributions to teaching, scholarly publication, clinical practice, administration and organizational leadership. Some of his service and honors include: President and member of the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology; President and Gold Medal Award recipient of the Texas Radiological Society; President of the Texas Medical Association Section of Nuclear Medicine; President of the Houston Radiological Society; President of the Southwestern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine; Commissioner and Chairman of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority; service on the International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP) – Committee 3 and election to the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP); Trustee with Life-time Achievement Award of the American Board of Radiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and the American College of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Guiberteau has made numerous contributions to the literature of Radiology, including a well-regarded textbook on nuclear medicine, now in its 5th edition. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award at the University of Texas Medical School.
Susan M. Langhorst, Ph.D.
Susan M. Langhorst, Ph.D., serves as the radiation safety officer representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Langhorst was appointed in September 2009.
After completing her undergraduate education at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Dr. Langhorst earned her masters and doctorate of philosophy in nuclear engineering and health physics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She went on to serve as the health physics manager at the University of Missouri Research Reactor and eventually as the radiation safety officer at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Langhorst spent a year sabbatical as an Oak Ridge Associated Universities Faculty Research Fellow in Washington, D.C. supporting the Office of Science and Technology’s Committee on Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination. She currently serves as the radiation safety officer for Washington University in St. Louis and is on faculty at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.
Dr. Langhorst has been involved with several national organizations. She has served as Chair of the Health Physics Society (HPS) Radiation Safety Officer Section Nomination Committee. She has also served on the HPS American National Standards Institute (ANSI) N34 Committee. Dr. Langhorst was also involved with National Academy of Sciences serving on the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board. She has chaired the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) Program Committee on Operational Radiation Safety and currently serves as a Council Member.
Dr. Langhorst has been co-author of several NCRP reports and an ANSI standard on operational radiation safety and training programs, some of which focused on educational institutions and research reactors.
Leon S. Malmud, M.D.
Leon S. Malmud, M.D., serves as the health care administrator representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Malmud was appointed to the ACMUI in May 2002 and was appointed Chair of the ACMUI in November 2004.
Dr. Malmud earned his undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, as well as his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Following medical school, Dr. Malmud completed an internship at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and was then a resident in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a Captain in the United States Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, where he practiced psychiatry. Dr. Malmud then completed a residency in medicine at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and completed a two-year fellowship in nuclear medicine in the department of radiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Malmud has been board certified in nuclear medicine since 1973.
During his career, Dr. Malmud has held a wide range of academic and clinical positions. These include his current role as dean emeritus, Temple University School of Medicine, where he is also the Herbert M. Stauffer Professor of Diagnostic Imaging and Professor of Medicine. During the previous 14 years, Dr. Malmud was the president and CEO of Temple University Health System, CEO of Temple University Hospital, senior vice president for the Health Sciences (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, nursing, PT, and OT), and also served concurrently as dean of medicine for the last five years. In addition, Dr. Malmud has served Temple University extensively in several health care-related administrative positions, previously including the Professional Affairs Committee; Patient Care Committee; Impaired Physician Program; Ethics Committee; and Admissions Committee of the School of Medicine.
With respect to professional society functions, Dr. Malmud continues to participate extensively. A sampling of societies of which he has and/or continues to be active include the American College of Nuclear Physicians (Fellow); American College of Nuclear Medicine (Fellow); American College of Radiology; American Roentgen Ray Society; and the Society of Nuclear Medicine in which he successively served as president, and remains a trustee.
Dr. Malmud has contributed extensively to the peer-reviewed literature and has served as editor and/or reviewer of publications such as the American Journal of Physiologic Imaging, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Pediatrics. He has also received acclaim for his contributions to medicine as the recipient of such awards as the Doctor of Humane Letters at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine; the Health Care Heroes Award by the Philadelphia Business Journal; three Gold Medals from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and the Berson-Yalow Award for his scientific contributions.
Finally, Dr. Malmud serves on several nonprofit boards, including religious organizations and the Southeastern Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Steven R. Mattmuller
Steven R. Mattmuller serves as the nuclear pharmacist representative on the ACMUI. Mr. Mattmuller was appointed in March 2008.
Mr. Mattmuller received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Ohio Northern University and a Master of Science in Radiopharmacy from the University of Southern California. Mr. Mattmuller is board certified in nuclear pharmacy by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties.
Regarding clinical experience, Mr. Mattmuller has held positions in Ohio and Missouri. Following his graduate education Mr. Mattmuller has held staff positions at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri and at Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, Ohio. Currently, Mr. Mattmuller is the Chief Nuclear Pharmacist at Kettering Medical Center (KMC).
In his current position he has direct responsibilities for the radiopharmaceuticals used at KMC. This includes the radiopharmaceuticals used in the clinical SPECT diagnostic nuclear medicine and the therapeutic nuclear medicine service. Also included are the cyclotron produced PET radiopharmaceuticals used for the clinical PET diagnostic service and those for the PET research programs.
Mr. Mattmuller has participated in a variety of capacities in several professional societies and has served on numerous institutional and professional society committees. Some notable institutional committee appointments include the Institutional Review Board and the Radiation Safety Committee. The two professional societies he has most actively participated in are the Society of Nuclear Medicine, (Board Member of the Missouri Valley Chapter) and the American Pharmacists Association. Currently he is the Chair-Elect of the Nuclear Pharmacy Practice Section of the Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management of the American Pharmacists Association.
Christopher J. Palestro, M.D.
Christopher J. Palestro, M.D. serves as the nuclear medicine physician representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Palestro was appointed in September 2011.
Dr. Palestro received a B.S. in Biology from Fordham University, Bronx, NY, and his M.D. from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Guadalajara Mexico. He completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, followed by a residency in Nuclear Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, also in New York City. He was certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine in 1982.
From 1982-1985, Dr. Palestro was the Chief of the Section of Nuclear Medicine at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, CT. From 1985-1992, he was an attending physician and assistant clinical director in the Andre-Meyer Department of Physics-Nuclear Medicine of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He was appointed an Assistant Professor of Radiology in the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 1985, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. In 1992 Dr. Palestro was appointed Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine of Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY. In the same year he was appointed an Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, NY), and was promoted to Professor in 1996.
In 2007 Dr. Palestro was appointed chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, a position he currently holds. He has been a professor of Radiology at the Hofstra University School of Medicine in partnership with North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System since 2009.
An internationally recognized authority on nuclear medicine imaging of infection, Dr. Palestro has authored or coauthored more than 125 peer reviewed articles, and more than 50 book chapters and review articles. He has served as a reviewer for the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Radiology, and the New England Journal of Medicine, among others. Dr. Palestro has been an associate editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Radiology and the Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. A life member and past chair of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Palestro currently is chair of the Accredited Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Nuclear Medicine Residency Review Committee. He is a past president of The International Society of Radiolabeled Blood Elements, an organization dedicated to the investigation of nuclear medicine techniques for imaging inflammation and infection. He is chair of the Infection Section of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines Task Force, and Vice-chair of the Hematopoietic and Musculoskeletal Sections of that society's Lifelong Learning Self-Assessment Programs. Dr. Palestro has received awards for "Reviewing with Distinction" and "Reviewing with Special Distinction," from the journal Radiology and in 2003 was the recipient of Greater New York Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine "Berson-Yalow Award." He frequently has been selected as one of the "Best Doctors in New York" and as one of the "Best Doctors in America."
John H. Suh, M.D.
John H. Suh, M.D., serves as one of the radiation oncologist representatives on the ACMUI. Dr. Suh was appointed in October 2010.
Dr. Suh received his bachelor's and medical degree from the University of Miami's Honors Program in Medical Education. He then completed his residency and fellowship in radiation oncology at the Cleveland Clinic.
Following his residency, he joined the faculty at the Cleveland Clinic in 1995 where he specialized in neuro-oncology and stereotactic radiosurgery. From 1996 to 2002, he was the residency director. In 1999, he became clinical director for the department. In 2003, he became the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Gamma Knife Center. Since 2006, he has served as Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. He is also Associate Director of the Gamma Knife Center and the Brain Tumor and Neuro-oncology Center at the Cleveland Clinic. He is board certified in radiation oncology and currently serves as the section head for the Central Nervous System/pediatric section for the American Board of Radiology's oral board examination.
His awards have included the National Brain Tumor Foundation Clinical Research Award, Teacher of the Year Award, and selection as one of America's Top Physicians for Cancer. He was the principal investigator for two phase III trials testing a radiation sensitizer with whole brain radiation therapy for patients with brain metastases.
His patient care, research and teaching interests include adult and pediatric brain tumors, Gamma Knife radiosurgery, and innovative radiation approaches. He has authored over 120 publications and has served as the institutional principal investigator for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group at the Cleveland Clinic since 1995. Dr. Suh has lectured extensively locally, nationally and internationally. He serves as a reviewer for a number of medical journals and is a member of many professional societies.
Orhan H. Suleiman, Ph.D.
Orhan H. Suleiman, Ph.D., has served as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) representative on the ACMUI since 2004.
Dr. Suleiman received both his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Florida and his doctorate of philosophy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He currently works in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), but spent the majority of his early career in FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). He is the Senior Science Policy Advisor in the Office of Oncology Drug Products. He is involved in a variety of regulatory initiatives involving drug development, human research associated with radiolabeled drugs, radiation safety, and imaging.
Most of Dr. Suleiman’s FDA career has been in FDA’s CDRH where he was responsible for the Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray Trends (NEXT) survey program, a collaborative state-federal program which annually surveys the radiation dose for select diagnostic x-ray examinations. Dr. Suleiman and was actively involved in the implementation of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992, a national program which established mandatory federal standards for mammography, and from 1994 to 2002, he served as the Executive Secretary of FDA’s Technical Electronic Products Radiation Safety Standards Committee (TEPRSSC), the advisory committee associated with the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968.
Dr. Suleiman has published over 60 papers and book chapters and made over 80 formal presentations. He has developed, directed, and participated in numerous courses, workshops, and training videos. Dr. Suleiman has served on committees of domestic and international agencies, professional organizations, and industry, such as the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD), the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the Health Physics Society (HPS), Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), Drug Information Agency (DIA), International Electro-technical Commission (IEC), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP). In 1999, Dr. Suleiman was elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Most recently, Dr. Suleiman served as president (2006-7) of the Baltimore Washington Chapter of the Health Physics Society.
Bruce R. Thomadsen, Ph.D.
Bruce R. Thomadsen, Ph.D., serves as the medical physicist in radiation therapy representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Thomadsen was appointed to the ACMUI in October 2007 and was appointed Vice Chair of the ACMUI in October 2009.
Dr. Thomadsen is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in radiological physics, the American Board of Health Physics in comprehensive health physics, and the American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics and political science from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science degree in physics from Michigan State University, and a master’s and Ph.D. in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Thomadsen was a resident in radiological physics at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Thomadsen served as a medical physicist at Hurley Hospital, in Flint, Michigan and St. Barnabas Medical Center, in Short Hills, New Jersey, before going to the University of Wisconsin, where he has worked since 1975, except for one year (1985-86) on exchange with Copenhagen County Hospital in Denmark. At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Thomadsen has served as the chair of the University Radiation Safety Committee since 1992 and has been very active in clinical service, research, and teaching.
Service to professional societies has been an important part of Dr. Thomadsen’s career, and he was made a fellow of the American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM). He has served on and chaired many AAPM committees, including the Radiation Safety Committee. He has also been active in the American Brachytherapy Society and served on panels for the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measures and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement. Dr. Thomadsen has been active in the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs and with the American Board of Radiology both as and examiner and with the maintenance of certificate program.
Brachytherapy physics has been one of the main areas of Dr. Thomadsen’s research, but he has also been involved in research on quality assurance and patient safety, as well as dosimetry for external-beam radiotherapy.
William A. Van Decker, M.D.
William A. Van Decker, M.D., serves as the nuclear cardiologist representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Van Decker was appointed in October 2005.
Dr. Van Decker graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, and attended the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. After attendance at Georgetown, he completed an internship, a residency in internal medicine, and a fellowship in cardiology, all at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Van Decker holds board certifications in internal medicine and in cardiovascular diseases. He has been designated a diplomate by the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology and the National Board of Echocardiography.
Dr. Van Decker's professional experience includes positions at Drexel University College as the Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; Director, Nuclear Cardiology; Assistant Professor, Radiologic Sciences; Director, Cardiology Clinic; and Associate Director, Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging. Additionally, he has served on several committees, boards, and professional societies, including Chair, Committee on Radiation Safety; Chair, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Chair, Continuing Education Committee; member, Society of Nuclear Medicine, member, American College of Physicians; member American College of Cardiology; and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, where he was a founding member.
Dr. Van Decker has contributed to abstracts of several professional publications, including the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Research, and the Journal of Investigative Medicine.
Laura M. Weil
Laura M. Weil serves as the patients’ rights advocate on the ACMUI. Ms. Weil was appointed in August 2011.
She is currently on the faculty and is a Director Emerita of Sarah Lawrence College’s master’s degree program in Health Advocacy. The program at Sarah Lawrence, located in Bronxville, N.Y., is the only graduate level health advocacy degree program in the country.
Ms. Weil earned her Bachelors of Arts degree from SUNY Albany. She then went on to obtain her Masters of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College Health Advocacy Program. Her area of advocacy specialization is the rights of participants in clinical trial research.
She serves on Beth Israel Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board, where she is a reviewer of proposed clinical trials with respect to patients’ rights. As a consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, she reviews research applications for federal funding. She served as director of the patient representative department of a major academic medical center for nine years, and taught clinical ethics for several years.
Ms. Weil served as past president of New York State Society of Patient Representatives and was a board member of the National Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy of the American Hospital Association. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants and a member of the Metropolitan New York Ethics Network.
James S. Welsh, M.D.
James S. Welsh, M.D., serves as one of the radiation oncologist representatives on the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI). Dr. Welsh was appointed in February 2007.
Dr. Welsh earned a master’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University after graduating with academic distinction from Binghamton University. Dr. Welsh earned his medical degree at Stony Brook School of Medicine and then completed his residency training in radiation oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Following his residency, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins and was an Assistant Professor of Oncology. He then joined the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison where he became a clinical professor of Human Oncology and Medical Physics. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiology and Radiation Oncology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport and is an attending radiation oncologist with the Willis-Knighton Hospital in Shreveport. He is board certified in radiation oncology and neuro-oncology and had composed questions for the written board examination for several years.
Dr Welsh has authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers, review articles and book chapters. His academic awards have included induction into Phi Beta Kappa and the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society. He is a fellow of the American College of Radiation Oncology and was the recipient of a clinical teaching award at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center and was selected as one of America’s Top Physicians in radiation oncology.
In 2002, Dr. Welsh was the first physician to treat a patient using helical tomotherapy. In addition to pioneering research on helical tomotherapy, he has conducted research in the physics and radiobiology of intensity modulated radiation therapy, radiopharmaceutical therapy, electronic brachytherapy and prostate brachytherapy. His research interests include GammaKnife stereotactic radiosurgery for functional disorders, hadron therapy and dose-rate radiobiology. Dr. Welsh has lectured extensively locally, nationally and internationally. He serves on the editorial board for Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment and is associate editor for the American Journal of Clinical Oncology. He presently serves on several professional committees within the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). He holds numerous leadership positions within professional societies including presently sitting on the Board of Chancellors for the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO).
Pat B. Zanzonico, Ph.D.
Pat B. Zanzonico, Ph.D., serves as the medical physicist in nuclear medicine representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Zanzonico was appointed in March 2010.
Dr. Pat Zanzonico received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Cooper Union and his doctorate degree from the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He served as a Research Fellow, Research Associate, and Assistant Member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) before joining the faculty of the Department of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1984. Dr. Zanzonico is currently Member and Attending Physicist at MSKCC, Co-Head of the Center's Nuclear Medicine Research and Small-Animal Imaging Laboratories, and Chairman of its Committee on Radiation.
Dr. Zanzonico also serves on the Special Contributing Faculty of the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School at MSKCC and on the Radioactive Drug Research Committees (RDRCs) at MSKCC and at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical College. He is a member of the Editorial Board and past Associate Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) and of the Medical Internal Radionuclide Dosimetry (MIRD) Committee, and an Expert Consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Dr. Zanzonico has over eighty peer-reviewed publications and over sixty-five invited presentations.
Dr. Zanzonico is actively involved in biomedical research on radionuclide-based methods for detecting and localizing tumor hypoxia, immune effector-cell trafficking, patient-specific dosimetry for radionuclide therapies, and small-animal and molecular imaging.
