The Hal O’Brien Rising Star award is intended to pay for $1,000 travel expenses to our HCNMC meeting where the awardee will be presented with a plaque and invited to participate in the program. This award is intended for young people identified to have the potential to become future leaders in our field.

To celebrate our 40^th anniversary we have created the Hal O’Brien fund at the Education and Research Foundation. Those of us who participate and attend the HCNMC truly appreciate Dr. Hal O’Brien’s vision in creating such a unique format to bring together leaders from all branches of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging that continues to benefit all of us who attend.  We have created this annual award to provide the next generation of future leaders the opportunity to benefit from this unique learning experience. We are targeting to give this award to junior faculty, Post-Docs and fellows identified by Councils of the SNMMI as rising stars.