Dr. Thomas Hope Honored by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging!
Join us in congratulating Thomas Hope, MD, the 2016 recipient of the Marc Tetalman Award and the Robert E. Henkin Government Relations Fellowship. Both awards, given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molcular Imaging (SNMMI), honor a gifted and highly motivated young nuclear and molecular imaging professional.
Dr. Hope is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Nuclear Medicine and Abdominal Imaging sections at UCSF and the SFVAMC. He has combined his interest in MR imaging with PET in the simultaneous modality PET/MRI, helping lead the development of the clinical PET/MRI program at UCSF. Additionally, Dr. Hope is developing the peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) program for neuroendocrine tumors at UCSF. Through this program, Dr. Hope and other nuclear medicine physicians will use radionuclide imaging therapy to visualize the structure and functions of tumors within the body.
The biannual Marc Tetalman, MD, Memorial Award was established by the family and friends of Dr. Marc R. Tetalman to honor the research accomplishments of a young investigator pursuing a career in nuclear medicine. The award is supported by a grant from the Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. It gets presented every other year at the SNMMI Annual Meeting.
In addition to the Marc Tetalman Award, Dr. Hope was recently honored with the 2016 Robert E. Henkin Government Relations Fellowship, also from the SNMMI. Like the Marc Tetalman Award, this fellowship is supported by the Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Given annually, the recipients of this award have the opportunity to visit Washington, DC to spend a week with SNMMI staff and visit Congress, federal agencies and other medical societies to learn, first-hand, how the federal legislative and regulatory process impacts nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.
Thomas Hope, MD, is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Abdominal Imaging and Nuclear Medicine sections at UCSF and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In 2007, he received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and he completed a one-year internship at Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco. From 2008-2012, Dr. Hope completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by a clinical fellowship in Body MRI and Nuclear Medicine from Stanford Medical Center in 2013.