Zaret, Barry L.

Barry L. Zaret, M.D., Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine and professor of diagnostic radiology, received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), the highest award granted by the society, at the ASNC’s annual meeting in Montreal in September. The award, which has been given only four times previously, recognized Zaret’s contributions to the field of nuclear cardiology, in which radioisotopes are used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, and his 10-year term as the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.