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SNMMI Membership Committee April 22, 2016 Minutes

Members in attendance: Vasken Dilsizian, MD (Chair), David Brandon, MD, Wengen Chen, MD, PhD, James Galt, PhD. Munir Ghesani, MD, FACNM, Helen Nadel, MD, Todd Peterson, PhD, Thomas Collier, PhD, Robert Miletich, MD, PhD, Dmitry Beyder, MPA, CNMT

Members not in attendance: Sara Johnson, MBA, CNMT, NCT, FSNMMI-TS, Satoshi Minoshima, MD, PhD

Staff: Virginia Pappas, Joanna Spahr

Welcome and Call to Order Vasken Dilsizian, Chair called the meeting to order at 11:00am and a quorum was established. Approval of Minutes Vasken Dilsizian, MD asked the committee to review and approve the minutes from the March 23, 2016 conference call.

The committee reviewed and made a motion to approved the minutes.

Emeritus Applications Vasken Dilsizian, MD asked the committee to review and approve the following emeritus applications: Dennis Fujii, PhD and Michael Kelly, MD

The committee reviewed and made a motion to approve.

Discussion: Review Program Director Calls Vasken Dilsizian, MD asked the committee to share their feedback from the Program Director outreach project. Most members stated that they had difficulty getting the program directors to respond back. Comments and recommendations that were collected include:

 Residents are mainly focused on training, learning and trying to find a job. Some participate at regional meetings. Joining a professional society is not top of mind. It was noted that the committee not continue to seek out this audience at this time and to move on to other audiences. Graduating residents are not doing nuclear medicine, they are transferring to radiology  Encourage and reward residents if they present abstracts  Invite them to join councils and give them an internship and then move them up  More social time at scientific sessions during the Annual Meeting. Possibly have a program director social at the meeting to talk about ideas and jobs.  Jobs seems to be the biggest issue: recommend a Job Fair at the Annual Meeting  It was recommended that we use the Young Professionals to help out  Possibly mirror the poster mixer at the Annual Meeting for the clinical side and offer poster awards  Offering residents council internships  Have councils to include 2 international members to their Boards that are applied too.

Next Steps The committee agreed that the more important group to contact next is the ABNM non-members. The committee discussed that about 30 to 40 percent of Time Limited certificants participate in the MOC. It was stated that we need to know the real reason this group is not joining and/or renewing their membership. It was also recommended that committee members speak with the Program Directors in June to seek their support in helping residents become more aware of the society benefits.

Action: Staff to reach out to the ABNM group to set up the calls for committee members.

The meeting adjourned at 12:00pm.