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Heather Jacene, MD, named president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Business Announcement

Heather Jacene, MD, has been named president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). Jacene is currently Chief of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Clinical Director of Nuclear Medicine/PET-CT and Senior Physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. SNMMI introduced a new slate of officers during its 2026 Annual Meeting, held May 30 - June 2 in Los Angeles.

Meeting: Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2026 Annual Meeting

Gary Ulaner, MD, Ph.D., elected president-elect of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Business Announcement

Gary Ulaner, MD, PhD, has been named president-elect of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). Ulaner is currently James & Pamela Muzzy Endowed Chair of Molecular Imaging and Therapy at the Hoag Family Cancer Institute and is Professor of Radiology and Translational Genomics at the University of Southern California. SNMMI introduced a new slate of officers during its 2026 Annual Meeting, held May 30 - June 2 in Los Angeles.

Meeting: Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2026 Annual Meeting

Jason Lewis, Ph.D., FSNMMI, named vice president-elect of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Business Announcement

Jason S. Lewis, PhD, FSNMMI, has been named vice president-elect of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). Lewis is the Emily Tow Chair in Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and deputy director of Sloan Kettering Institute in New York. SNMMI introduced its 2026-27 officers at its 2026 Annual Meeting, held May 30-June 2 in Los Angeles.

Meeting: Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2026 Annual Meeting

GLP-1 agonists linked to significantly lower long term risk of knee replacement

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs, used for the treatment of diabetes, and more recently, weight loss, are associated with a significantly lower long term risk of knee replacement surgery as a result of osteoarthritis, finds an analysis of medical records data, published in the open access journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine.

Journal: Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine

90-120 weekly minutes of strength training may be optimal for lowering death risk

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Clocking up 90 to 120 weekly minutes of strength (resistance) training may be the sweet spot for lowering the risk of death, suggests a 30 year study, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Journal: British Journal of Sports Medicine

Magnetic biochar gel helps keep arsenic and antimony out of rice

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, but in some mining-impacted regions, paddy soils can contain elevated levels of arsenic and antimony. These toxic metalloids can move from soil into rice plants, raising concerns for food safety and human health. A new study published in Biochar reports a promising strategy: a magnetic silicon-enriched biochar gel that can immobilize both arsenic and antimony in contaminated paddy soil and reduce their accumulation in rice grains.

Journal: Biochar

New York Valves 2026 to unveil late-breaking research in structural heart disease

Cardiovascular Research Foundation
Meeting Announcement

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation^® (CRF^®) announced the highly anticipated lineup of late-breaking research to be presented at New York Valves: The Structural Heart Summit^TM. The premier educational meeting for the structural heart community will take place June 24-26, 2026, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, North in New York, NY.

Meeting: New York Valves 2026

Pennington Biomedical first to estimate pediatric obesity prevalence using new Lancet Commission definition

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using nationally representative data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2017–2023, researchers examined obesity prevalence among children and adolescents ages 5-18 years using the recently proposed Lancet Commission framework. The new framework distinguishes between preclinical obesity, in which excess adiposity is present without current signs of organ dysfunction or disease, and clinical obesity, where measurable health complications associated with obesity are already evident.

Journal: Obesity

PET imaging reveals synaptic loss in multiple sclerosis across preclinical and human studies

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new PET imaging approach that measures synaptic density in the spinal cord provides a quantitative way to assess the brain's functional wiring in patients with multiple sclerosis. With this personalized information, physicians can monitor disease progression and evaluate whether new treatments are working to protect or restore these critical connections. This research was presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2026 Annual Meeting.

Journal: Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Meeting: Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2026 Annual Meeting

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