Alan Klitzke named new ACNM president

Alan Klitzke, MD, has been named the 47th president of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM).

Klitzke is an associate professor of oncology in the department of diagnostic radiology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, and an assistant professor of radiology and assistant professor of nuclear medicine at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo.

“Diagnostic and therapeutic medicine is continually transforming,” he said in a prepared statement. “As a diagnostic physician at Roswell Park, I work with a team of doctors to ensure patients are diagnosed properly and get the best care. As the president of the ACNM, I will work to continue the advancement of not only this field, but the organization as well. I am humbled and honored to take on this leadership role.”

Klitzke will serve a one-year term and says he wants to develop “a new collaboration agreement between the ACNM and the British Nuclear Medicine Society.”

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