Dr. Dennis Calnon from the OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus was recently installed as president of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) for 2022.
Calnon will lead the society's current executive council as this year's president. He will also co-direct the new virtual program Nuclear Cardiology NOW: Strategies for Optimization, Efficiency and Productivity from March 11 to 13.
Calnon has been a member of ASNC since 1996 and has served numerous roles since then. He was part of the society's community-based practice committee, now the health policy committee. He was also an associate editor of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology with section editor responsibility for the "Images that Teach" feature. Calnon was honored in 2016 with the Master of ASNC (MASNC) designation.
Calnon earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Pennsylvania State University and his medical degree from the Penn State College of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and both his cardiology fellowship and a nuclear cardiology research fellowship at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
