Examining the Nuclear Medicine Advanced Associate: Past, Present, and Future—A White Paper Presented by Members of the Graduate Stakeholders Committee of the SNMMI Technologist Section

1Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia; 2Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts; 3UNM Ltd., Chicago, Illinois; 4Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; 5Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 6Clinical Imaging Physics Group, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 7Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia; 8Invivo Molecular Imaging LLC, Gray, Tennessee; 9Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; 10Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut; 11Bracco, Princeton, New Jersey; and 12Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania