Susan C. Weiss, BS, CNMT
Susan C. Weiss (née Anderson), BS, CNMT, died on Sunday, July 19, 2009, from pancreatic cancer. “Sue,” as she preferred to be called, was born on June 14, 1944. Her career in nuclear medicine spanned 44 productive years. To list the highlights of her career would not do justice to the person that she was, and there is not enough space even to simply publish her curriculum vitae (CV). The quality of her life goes well beyond her professional CV.
A PIONEER
To begin, Sue was a pioneer in the subspecialty of pediatric nuclear medicine (PNM). Webster's dictionary defines a pioneer as “a person who goes before, preparing the way for others, as an early settler or a scientist doing exploratory work.”
After training in nuclear medicine technology (NMT) at the University of Minnesota with Merle Loken, and after brief stays in Manchester, Connecticut, and in Philadelphia at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Sue migrated to Chicago, where she began as a staff technologist at the Children's Memorial Hospital (CMH). In 1967, CMH had acquired the first Anger gamma camera to be installed in a pediatric hospital. She readily adapted the adult equipment and techniques to the requirements of the child. Within three years, she became the chief nuclear medicine technologist, a post that she held for 21 years. During her first years at CMH, Sue went to night school and earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago.
AN INNOVATOR
As an innovator, Sue was instrumental in the development of numerous nuclear medicine techniques for use in children. One of her first publications was a booklet on pediatric techniques that was handed out at a central chapter meeting. The methods of sedation and handling of children for nuclear medicine procedures were developed and published, including …
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