Pat Zanzonico, PhD, DABR is an Attending Physicist and was the founding co-head of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Animal Imaging Core Facility. He was involved in biomedical research on radionuclide-based methods for detecting and localizing tumor hypoxia (oxygen deprivation), immune effector-cell trafficking, patient-specific dosimetry for radiation therapies, and small-animal and molecular imaging.
Dr. Zanzonico received a BS in Physics from Cooper Union in 1977 and a PhD in Biophysics from the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 1982. He served on the faculty of the Department of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He also serves on the Special Contributing Faculty of the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School and is an Adjunct Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University.
Dr. Zanzonico is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Radiology and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physics. He is also a member and Chairman of the Medical Internal Radionuclide Dosimetry (MIRD) Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP), past member and vice-chairman of the NRC’s Advisory Committee on Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI), a Consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a member of the New York State board of Medical Physics, and Editor-in-Chief of the Diagnostic RAPHEX.
He is the recipient of number of awards, including the Chevru Memorial Lectureship Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, G William Morgan Lectureship Award from the Health Physics Society, the Berman-Yalow Award from the New York Chapter of the SNMMI, and the Failla Award from the New York Chapters of the AAPM and Health Physics Society.