The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) has installed Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD, as its 2025 president.
Chareonthaitawee is the director of nuclear cardiology, chair of education, and the founding chair of the diversity program for the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago and completed an internal medicine residency and cardiovascular fellowship at the Mayo Clinic and was then awarded a Mayo Foundation Scholarship to study cardiac PET imaging at Imperial College in London.
Chareonthaitawee returned to the Mayo Clinic in time to oversee the powering up of the institution’s first cyclotron facility and the launch of its cardiac PET program. She has since served in numerous leadership positions at the Mayo Clinic and is a prolific researcher, with more than 150 publications.
Her first president’s message was published recently in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.