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Twelfth annual Mario S. Verani, MD memorial lecture: Vision, leadership, and change—A reflection on the challenges and opportunities in the community-based practice of nuclear cardiology

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Dr. Bateman receives royalties from sales of ExSPECT II attenuation correction software, and from sales of ImagenPro/MD/Q/3D PET software. He has received research grants from Astellas, Bracco, GE, Philips, and Spectrum-Dynamics. He has been on advisory boards for Astellas, Bracco, Jubilant-Drax Image, Fluoropharma, GE, Lantheus and Spectrum-Dynamics.

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Bateman, T.M. Twelfth annual Mario S. Verani, MD memorial lecture: Vision, leadership, and change—A reflection on the challenges and opportunities in the community-based practice of nuclear cardiology. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 22, 435–449 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-015-0126-3

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