We invite you to join a committee or panel to ensure you're getting the most out of your ASNC membership. You'll collaborate with other leaders in your field to advance ASNC's mission, shape programs and events, and develop new resources for your colleagues and patients. Volunteer today!  

The call for 2021 applications is now closed. We hope you will sign up for an oportunity next year.
 

• Annual Meeting Program Committee: The Annual Meeting Program Committee is responsible for the content development of the Annual Meeting. The content will align with the structure as defined by the Annual Meeting Strategic Organizing Committee (members of that committee are named for their roles in governance). The content includes, but is not limited to, session topics and formats, individual presentations, and program faculty. The term is one year, from July 1-June 30. The selection of individuals to serve on the Annual Meeting Program Committee is made every spring.

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  Cardiovascular PET Committee: The Cardiovascular PET Committee identifies and monitors the cardiovascular PET landscape and emerging issues and member needs; develops recommendations and action plans for solutions, such as educational programs, guidelines or other resources; works to develop specific cardiovascular PET tools and resources and coordinates with the appropriate ASNC committees for Board action.  

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  Education Committee: The Education Committee oversees and coordinates the development and implementation of the Board's overarching and long-term educational strategy, through the integrated, innovative, and collaborative efforts of all ASNC Education Subcommittees. Leaders of the Education Committee will work in close collaboration with members from the Committee on Guidelines and Scientific Statements to assure appropriate alignment of Education and Quality initiatives inside ASNC.

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  Health Policy Committee: The Health Policy Committee is responsible for addressing health policy issues that impact the practice of Nuclear Cardiology including, Federal regulatory relations, Congress, Medicare contractors, private sector payers, the AMA Relative Update Committee, and other cardiovascular specialty societies to promote a fair regulatory, legislative, and reimbursement environment that improves access to, and promotes the optimal delivery of, nuclear cardiology services. 

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  ImageGuide Registry Research and Publications Committee: The ImageGuide Registry Research and Publications Committee is responsible for reviewing and approving data requests, publications, and presentations of ImageGuide Registry study results. All requests are scrutinized to ensure that publications preserve the scientific integrity of the study and that all publication policies and standards of excellence are upheld. 

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  International Advisory Panel: The International Advisory Panel is responsible for advising the Society on issues related to international membership development and strategies related to program and product development. The Panel also works to facilitate ASNC relationships globally. 

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  Member Relations Committee: The Member Relations Committee is responsible for identifying strategies and tactics to meet the Board's strategic objectives for membership in the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. The Committee identifies membership needs and recommends appropriate programs and services to meet those needs.

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  Quality Steering Committee: The Quality Steering Committee oversees and coordinates the development and implementation of the Board's overarching and long-term Quality strategy, through the integrated, innovative, and collaborative efforts of all ASNC Quality Advisory Panels and subcommittees. Leaders of the Quality Steering Committee will work in close collaboration with members from the Education Committee to assure appropriate alignment of Education and Quality initiatives inside ASNC. 

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  Registry Oversight Committee: The Registry Oversight Committee leads the ImageGuide Registry in the development of a data repository that will serve research, policy and quality improvement initiatives for alignment with lab accreditation and ABIM Maintenance of Certification.

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  Social Media Task Force: The committee’s goals are to create platforms that connect, promote education, and encourage professional engagement between ASNC's members and leaders within the Society. Other goals include raising awareness amongst members with regards to Society initiatives and to serve as a vehicle to promote the various legislative activities of the Society. The Task Force will also serve as a communication channel for members to raise awareness of ongoing educational meetings, webinars, research activities or tutorials that are relevant to the field of Nuclear Cardiology. The overarching goal of this Task Force is to increase membership and member engagement through social media to promote the practice of Nuclear Cardiology globally.

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  Technologist Advisory Panel:  The Technologist Advisory Panel reports to the Membership Relations Committee and is responsible for providing recommendations on programs and services to meet the needs of nuclear cardiology technologists.

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  ​Technology Committee: The Technology Committee is composed of basic scientists, technologists, physicians practicing Nuclear Cardiology, and representatives from industry. The mission of this committee is to identify technical advancements in instrumentation, image processing software, and radiopharmaceuticals that will benefit the advancement of Nuclear Cardiology. The Committee identifies both opportunities and barriers to implementation of these advancements. These efforts will be facilitated by close interaction with industry. They also interface with other ASNC committees (e.g. Education, Quality, Health Care Policy) to best disseminate information and to accomplish these goals.

 

Thanks to our 2021 Volunteers!

2021 Committee Members

Audit Committee

Stephen Bloom, MD, FASNC, Chair

Lawrence Phillips, MD, FASNC

Michael Osborne, MD

Howard Lewin, MD, FASNC

Jenine John, MD

CV PET Committee

Gary Heller, PhD, MD, MASNC, Chair

Marcelo DiCarli, MD, MASNC, Deputy Chair

Mouaz Al-Mallah, MD, MS, FASNC

Parthiban Arumugam, MD

Timothy Bateman, MD, MASNC

Rob Beanlands, MD, MASNC

Dennis Calnon, MD, FASNC

James Case, PhD, MASNC

Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD

Stephen Horgan, MB ChB, PhD

Daniel Juneau, MD

A. Iain McGhie, MD

Michael Osborne, MD

Krishna Patel, MD, MSc

Jeffrey Rosenblatt, MD, FASNC

Diversity & Inclusion Committee

Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD, Co-Chair

Jennifer Mieres, MD, MASNC, Co-Chair

Education Committee

Karthik Ananthasubramanian, MD, FASNC, Chair

Matthew Harinstein, MD, MBA, FASNC, Deputy Chair

Aiden Abidov, MD, PhD

Firas Al Badarin, MD, FASNC

Hamid Amer, MD, MB

Nathan Better, MB BS, FASNC

Renée Bullock-Palmer, MD, FASNC

Dennis Calnon, MD, FASNC

Andrew Crean, MD, MB BSc, MPH

Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, FASNC

Gary Heller, PhD, MD, MASNC

Samia Massalha, MD, FASNC

Robert Pagnanelli, CNMT, NCT, RT(N)(R), FASNC

Shivda Pandey, MD, FASNC

Lawrence Phillips, MD, FASNC

Raymond Russell, MD, PhD, MASNC

Mrinali Shetty, MD

Hicham Skali, MD

Piotr Slomka, PhD, FASNC

Finance Committee

Lawrence Phillips, MD, FASNC, Chair

Emmett Chapital, MD, MBA, FASNC

Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MASNC

Thomas Hauser, MD, MPH

Shivda Pandey, MD, FASNC

Indu Poornima, MD

Vikas Veeranna, MD

FIT Work Group

Vasvi Singh, MD, Chair

Chaitanya Madamanchi, MD, Chair

Omar Abou Ezzeddine, MD

Cesia Gallagos-Kattan, MD

Michael Osborne, MD

Mrinali Shetty, MD

Health Policy Committee

David Wolinsky, MD, MASNC, Chair

W. Lane Duvall, MD, FASNC, Deputy Chair

Taimur Abbasi, MD

John Bois, MD

David Friedman, MD, FASNC

Edward Hulten, MD, FASNC

Friederike Keating, MD

Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC

Rupa Sanghani, MD, FASNC

Nishant Shah, MD, MPH, FASNC

Prem Soman, MD, PhD, MASNC

Suman Tandon, MD, FASNC

William Van Decker, MD, MASNC

Vikas Veeranna, MD

Richard Weinberg, MD, PhD, FASNC

David Winchester, MD, FASNC

ImageGuide Committee

Prem Soman, MD, PhD, MASNC, Chair

Ahmed Abuzaid, MD

Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, FASNC

Gary Heller, PhD, MD, MASNC

Scott Jerome, DO

Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC

Edward Miller, MD, PhD, FASNC

Venkatesh Murthy. MD, PhD, FASNC

Nishant Shah, MD, MPH, FASNC

Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH, FASNC

International Advisory Panel

Nathan Better, MB BS, FASNC, Chair

Felix Keng, MB BS, FASNC, Vice Chair

Erick Alexanderson, MD

Ahmed Aljizeeri, MB BS FASNC

Wael Aljourdi, MD, FASNC

Adel Allam, MD, MASNC

Majid Assadi, MD, FASNC

Catherine Bloor, MB BS

Henry Hee-Seung Bom, MD, PhD

Salah Bouyoucef, MD, PhD

Roxana Campisi, MD

Weif Fang, MD, Consultant

Henok Fantabel, MD

Zuo-Xiang He, MD, Consultant

Robert Hendel, MD, MASNC

Dr. Bailing Hsu, Consultant

Wael Jaber, MD

Diwakar Jain, MD, MASNC

Maria João Ferreira, MD

Vikram Lele, MD

Rafael Lopes, MD, PhD, FASNC

Robert Miller, MD

Fernando Mut, MD, FASNC

Ramachandran Parameswaran, MD, Consultant

Raymond Russell, MD, PhD, MASNC

Maria Sciammarella, MD

Gregory Thomas, MD, MPH, MASNC

Randall Thompson, MD, FASNC

Marian Vandyck-Acquah, MD, MB ChB, FASNC

João Vitola, MD, PhD, MASNC

Christiane Wiefels, MD

LDP Committee

Lawrence Phillips, MD, FASNC, Chair

Brian Abbott, MD, MASNC

Jamieson Bourque, MD, FASNC

Robert Pagnanelli, CNMT, NCT, RT(N)(R), FASNC

Maria Sciammarella, MD

Membership Relations Committee

Andressa Borges, MD, FASNC, Chair

Niti Aggarwal, MD, FASNC, Deputy Chair

Mouin Abdallah, MD, FASNC

Stephen Bloom, MD, FASNC

John Bois, MD

Raghunandan Dudda Subramanya, MD, FASNC

Jolene Fantony, MS, CNMT, RT(N)

Gabriel Grossman, MD, PhD, FASNC

(Monica) Charmaine Hart, CNMT, NCT, RT

Shaden Khalaf, MD

Rafael Lopes, MD, PhD, FASNC

Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau, MD

Sudip Saha, MD

Gary Small, MB ChB, PhD

Christiane Wiefels, MD

Nominating Committee

Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MASNC, Chair

Rob Beanlands, MD, MASNC

Dennis Calnon, MD, FASNC

Prem Soman, MD, PhD, MASNC

Gregory Thomas, MD, MPH, MASNC

Quality Steering Committee

Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, FASNC, Chair

Edward Miller, MD, PhD, FASNC, Co-Chair

Aiden Abidov, MD, PhD

Paco Bravo, MD

Roxana Campisi, MD

Rami Doukky, MD, FASNC

Timothy Dunn, CNMT, NMTCB

Javier Gomez Valencia, MD, FASNC

Fadi Hage, MD, MASNC

Ijeoma Isiadinso, MD, FASNC

Yiu Ming Khor

Mark Nathan, MD

Nishant Shah, MD, MPH, FASNC

Vasvi Singh, MD

Registry Oversight Committee (ASNC)

Rami Doukky, MD, FASNC, Chair

Jamieson Bourque, MD, FASNC, Co-Chair

Andressa Borges, MD, FASNC

Mylan Cohen, MD, MPH, MASNC

W. Lane Duvall, MD, FASNC

Andrew Einstein, MD, PhD, FASNC

(Monica) Charmaine Hart, CNMT, NCT, RT

Mark Hyun, CNMT, NCT, RT(N)(R), FASNC

Diwakar Jain, MD, MASNC

Robert Pagnanelli, CNMT, NCT, RT(N)(R), FASNC

Hicham Skali, MD

William Van Decker, MD, MASNC

Research Committee for the Young Investigator in Cardiac Amyloidosis Fellowship (Pfizer)

Albert Sinusas, MD, FASNC, Chair

Vasken Dilsizian, MD, MASNC

Diwakar Jain, MD, MASNC

Maria Sciammarella, MD

Piotr Slomka, PhD, FASNC

Research Fellowship Committee (IANC)

Raymond Russell, MD, PhD, MASNC, Chair

Marcelo DiCarli, MD, MASNC

Rami Doukky, MD, FASNC

Fadi Hage, MD, MASNC

Wael Jaber, MD

Mehran Sadeghi, MD

Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH, FASNC

Social Media Task Force

Renée Bullock-Palmer, MD, FASNC, Chair

Niti Aggarwal, MD, FASNC, Co-Chair

Emmanuel Akintoye, MD, MPH

Sanjay Divakaran, MD

Gabriel Grossman, MD, PhD, FASNC

Thomas Hauser, MD, MPH

Ahmad Masri, MD

Mrinali Shetty, MD

Brett Sperry, MD

Technologist Advisory Panel

Mark Hyun, CNMT, NCT, RT(N)(R), FASNC, Chair

Haresh Majmundar, CNMT, RT(N), FASNC, Co-Chair

Danny Basso, CNMT, NCT

Catherine Bloor, MB BS

Mary Ciervo, CNMT, RT(N)

Timothy Dunn, CNMT, NMTCB

Jolene Fantony, MS, CNMT, RT(N)

Robert Pagnanelli, CNMT, NCT, RT(N)(R), FASNC

Shivda Pandey, MD, FASNC

Krishnan Prabakaram, CNMT, NCT

Jaime Warren, EdD, BHS, MBA, CNMT, NCT

Technology Committee

Ian Armstrong, PhD, Chair

James Case, PhD, MASNC

Sarah Cuddy, MB ChB

James Galt, PhD

Ed Lyons, CNMT, RT(R)

Maria Mackin, CNMT, RT(N)

Albert Sinusas, MD, FASNC