Faculty position, Section Chief - Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology

Faculty position, Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology

Location:

Memphis, TN

Category:
Faculty

Department:
Radiology

Shift: Weekday Day

Position Type:
Full Time

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH) is seeking an A ‑certified or eligible nuclear medicine physician or nuclear radiologist for a full‑time faculty position as the Section Chief of Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Radiology. Faculty tracks include Clinical and Clinician‑Scientist. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in pediatric oncologic imaging.

Applicants must be board‑certified or eligible by the A  or have board certification or eligibility by the ABNM. All provider applicants must qualify for medical licensure in the State of Tennessee and be eligible for a DEA license.

The Department of Radiology e is a focused pediatric radiology program dedicated to finding cures for childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases and is a recipient of the Quantitative Imaging Excellence (CQIE) designation. The department encompasses six sections:
Nuclear Medicine, Neuroradiology, Body Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Physics, and Radiologic Sciences. We are dedicated to delivering exceptional imaging across multiple modalities to guide diagnosis, interventions, and treatment response evaluation, while also driving innovative research to enhance patient care.

The Nuclear Medicine section has a major focus on pediatric cancer imaging but also serves patients with sickle cell disease and other catastrophic childhood illnesses. Most patients are on a clinical trial, often funded by St. Jude, with opportunities to include nuclear imaging endpoints into the trials. We are eager to support the development and implementation of theranostics trials.

The reading room is staffed daily by one nuclear medicine faculty or staff physician. Multi‑disciplinary conferences include Solid Tumor, Lymphoma/Leukemia, and Brain Tumor weekly and other educational conferences monthly.

Call duties are light. Teleradiology remote services are provided for after‑hours, weekends, and holidays with St. Jude radiologists providing backup on an as‑needed and rotating basis. There is no trauma or emergency room. The clinical service includes a 3D augmented and virtual reality lab, tumor metrics (tumor response evaluation core lab) and advanced image processing lab, and support from three physicists who provide expertise for all imaging modalities.

A major effort incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) solutions into daily practice to support our faculty and enhance patient care.

We utilize state‑of‑the‑art equipment, including four 4th‑generation MRIs, ultrasound units, fluoroscopy suite, X‑ray, an expanded field‑of‑view PET/CT, a SPECT/CT, and one CT scanner to be replaced by June 2025.

St. Jude is the only dedicated pediatric hospital with a state‑of‑the‑art expanded field‑of‑view PET CT scanner.

Our research covers a wide spectrum of imaging techniques, including molecular imaging, functional MRI (fMRI), spectroscopy, structural and connectivity imaging, image quantification, and artificial intelligence (IQAI). For nuclear imaging, we have a dedicated cyclotron facility and Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics core lab that frequently creates new radionuclides, often requiring IND submission to the FDA. This, combined with the new expanded field‑of‑view PET/CT scanner, expands our capabilities to support a wide variety of investigator‑initiated and industry‑sponsored clinical trials, including theranostics.

We provide a collaborative culture and mentorship in research and support travel to learn new skills and disseminate our findings. Our research team includes dedicated support staff for grant writing, scientific editing, IRB management, clinical research assistants, advanced image processors, software engineers, data scientists, and biostatisticians. A 3T MRI dedicated for human imaging research will be installed in FY2026.

The Image Quantification and Artificial Intelligence (IQAI) core lab is new and expanding and will include a program manager, software engineers, and data scientists with…