Melissa Andrews, CNMT
(SWC-SNMMI-TS President 2022-2023)

Please tell us about yourself.

I was born and raised in a small town in Northwest Louisiana. I always knew I wanted to pursue a career in medicine, and at one time, I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician. I enjoy spending my free time reading, playing the piano, and traveling.

Give us your background information related to your professional training, including nuclear medicine, and what inspired you to enter this field.

I stumbled into nuclear medicine by pure luck. I took a job as a medical assistant at a busy cardiology practice when I was starting my basic college courses and was placed in the nuclear stress lab. After working in that department and getting a taste of nuclear medicine, I decided that I wanted to become a nuclear medicine technologist, and so, I shifted my area of study. 

What do you consider your primary contribution(s) to Nuclear Medicine?

I have spent several years working to organize sessions for the annual SNMMI meeting and feel that I enjoy contributing to that effort.

In what year were you a SWC-SNMMI President, and how did you first become involved with the chapter?

I was President of the TS during 2022-2023. I have always been a chapter member, but it was at the encouragement of a great friend and mentor that I started becoming involved. At his recommendation, I was selected to be the co-chair for a SWC annual meeting, and from there, I ran and was elected to Secretary, President-Elect, and then served as President.