Society of Nuclear Medicine Honors Ed Hoffman

The Computer and Instrumentation Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine has initiated a new award honoring former IEEE NPSS President Edward J. Hoffman who passed away in July 2004. Named the Edward Hoffman Memorial Award, it is given in recognition of "Outstanding Scientific Contributions to the field of Computers and Instrumentation in Nuclear Medicine."
The first recipient of this annual award was Simon R. Cherry, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California at Davis, and a former postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Hoffman's laboratory at UCLA. The award was presented to Dr. Cherry in Toronto in June at the 52nd annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine by the President of the Computer and Instrumentation Council, Dr. George Zubal. Prior to the award presentation, Dr. Cherry gave a talk detailing some of Dr. Hoffman's many contributions to the field of nuclear medicine and also highlighted Dr. Hoffman's influence on his own research over the past 15 years.