George Segall, MD, FACNM, receives 2020 ACNM Gold Medal Award
Dr. Segall is currently a professor in the Department of Radiology at
Stanford University. From 1986 to 1988, he was a nuclear medicine
resident at this institution and has been a faculty since 1988. He has
also worked at the Palo Alto VA since 1986, including being the Chief of
their Nuclear Medicine service since 1998. The first clinical PET
scanner in Northern California was installed at the Palo Alto VA in
1991, one of 5 installed nationally at that time in VAs. In 2006, a
cyclotron was also installed that this VA as one of the first
public-private partnerships to expand the availability of PET
radiopharmaceuticals.
In 2017, Dr. Segall received the Peter Valk Memorial Award from the PET
Center of Excellence in Denver, Colorado, recognizing his significant
contributions to the advancement and clinical adoption of PET.
In 2014, Dr. Segall became the Executive Director of the ABNM.