Welcome To The Missouri Valley Chapter of the SNMMI
The MVC is a regional chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging representing individuals from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The Chapter sponsors a Fall meeting each year to provide nuclear medicine professionals with continuing education opportunities addressing the newest innovations and latest developments in the field. The Chapter also acts as a liaison with the SNMMI, which is our national professional society.- Chapter News -
MVC Survey for NCD Feedback
Calling all MVC members: here's your chance to let the SNMMI know about the issues affecting your day-to-day job in Nuclear Medicine.
Please complete this survey and provide your feedback so our National Council Delegate can report on issues affecting the MVC membership at the upcoming SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting.
2024 MVC Annual Meeting
Thanks to everyone for another great annual meeting! We appreciate everyone who attended in person and virtually. We would also like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to our outstanding group of speakers for their time and expertise.
Attendance verification forms for meeting participants have been submitted to the SNMMI for CE processing. Click here for a copy of the CE approval letter from the SNMMI if needed for your records. CE certificates for attendees were distributed by the SNMMI prior to the Learning Center website being unavailable from Oct. 18 to Nov. 11.
Make plans to join us back in Kansas City for the 2025 Annual Meeting: Sept. 26-28, 2025 at the same Embassy Suites Kansas City Int'l Airport Hotel!
Job Opportunities
The University of Kansas Health System is seeking a full-time Nuclear Medicine Education Program Manager in Kansas City, KS. This position is responsible for the Nuclear Medicine education program's administrative functions, including accreditation, student selection, instruction, clinical functions and adjunct faculty. Please visit the University of Kansas Health System website for information and to apply.
Please review this document for information about a FT Nuclear Medicine Technologist position at Hannibal Regional in Hannibal, MO. Sign-on bonus is available. For more information, contact Kyle Pickett (details in document).
Please review this document for information about a FT Nuclear Medicine Technologist position with DMS Health Iowa. Signing bonus is available. For more information, contact Will Sutor (details in document).
SNMMI Monthly Updates
Governance & Member Engagement
Call for Nominations for the 2025 SNMMI-TS National Election
This notice will serve as the official Call for Nominations for the 2025 SNMMI-TS National Election. We encourage anyone who is interested to contact or submit a candidate packet to Nikki Wenzel-Lamb (nwenzel-lamb@snmmi.org). More information is available on this flyer.
The SNMMI Mid-Winter Meeting Governance grid is available here.
The following Grants and Awards are closing next month:
- Bradley-Alavi Student Fellowship - January 2
- SNMMI Molecular Imaging Research Grant for Junior Academic Faculty - January 2
- SNMMI LBCA Imaging Research Grant - December 31
- Mitzi & William Blahd, MD, Pilot Research Grant - January 2
- Robert E. Henkin, MD, Government Relations Fellowship - January 2
- SNMMI-TS PDEF Professional Development Scholarship - December 31
Quality of Practice
Dear SNMMI members and fellow nuclear medicine enthusiasts: You may have seen our new learning center. Don't forget all the valuable reader training modules that the Research and Discovery team has helped prepare so that you can implement and correctly interpret new radiopharmaceuticals in your clinic or hospital.
Please go to the SNMMI Learning Center where you can search for each of the reader training modules. Make sure that you are signed in with your member account.
Outreach
SNMMI has launched (or in some cases re-launched) its patient social media sites. We look forward to having regular posts that help patients better understand the role of nuclear medicine in diagnosing and treating disease. And we encourage all of you to please follow, engage, and repost to your own channels!
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Development and Marketing
The first JNMT podcast episode is live now! It features Jessica Settle as our host, with Mary Beth Farrell as her guest. This episode is called Got the Munchies? Cannabis and Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy and can be found here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Register for
Quick-Reference Protocol Manual for Nuclear Medicine Technologists-2nd edition! This refreshed edition includes 28 new and 71 updated protocols, designed to serve the practical needs of technologists. Each protocol is a reliable resource listing essential information for the procedure. Order now!
Join us in charting the future of healthcare. The Mars Shot Virtual Town Hall on November 14, will explore the groundbreaking research being driven by the Mars Shot initiative featuring insights from experts from renowned institutions, spanning across generations. This is your opportunity to see how SNMMI is pioneering the future of nuclear medicine to transform patient care. Register here
HOAG Annual Oncologic PET/CT and MIT Course: This three-day course from April 2-4, 2025. It is at the Waterfront Beach Resort in Huntington Beach, CA. This course will emphasize modern PET/CT Imaging and Molecular Imaging and Therapy (MIT) with targeted imaging and therapy radiotracers. This course will include 12 hours of lectures from MIT leaders around the world and 12 hours of dedicated computer workstation time for attendees to personally review order 500 PET/CT studies. Learn more here
Submit your abstracts for the 2025 Annual Meeting! SNMMI is now accepting original scientific abstracts for the 2025 SNNMI Annual Meeting to be held June 21-24, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The deadline to submit is January 13, 2025. Learn more here
Apply for the SNMMI-Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance Invasive Lobular Carcinoma Imaging Research Fellowship of $100,000! Research projects must focus on ILC and molecular imaging or therapy for lobular breast cancer. Priority projects may have molecular imaging as the primary focus of the proposed research or researchers may investigate methods that integrate other imaging and/or molecular science with radionuclide methods, including hybrid imaging techniques such as PET/CT, SPECT/CT and PET/MRI.
Education & Meeting Services
The new SNMMI Learning Center was launched in November. The full catalog is available to members online.
We will have an interim Joint Provider process, which has been communicated to the Chapters, until the new submission process is completed in the first quarter of 2025.
Chapter meetings that occurred in the fall will be added to the new Learning Center for the issuance of credit shortly.
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