The Central Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CCSMMI) will honor Michelle (Shelli) L. Kritzman, of Medical Physics Consultants with the presentation of the Steven M. Pinsky Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor the CCSNMMI can bestow upon a member. The Distinguished Service Award, or Gold Medal, will be presented to Ms. Kritzman on Saturday, March 8th at the CCSNMMI Annual Spring Meeting at the Doubletree Hotel in Oak Brook, Illinois, to recognize her outstanding leadership in organized medicine and community relations and her many years of dedicated service to radiology and nuclear medicine.
Shelli received her bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Medicine Technology from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1993 and a Master’s Degree in Radiologic Physics from Wayne State University in Detroit in 2000. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology (Medical Nuclear Physics) and participates in the Continuing Certification (MOC) as required by the ABR.
Her career in nuclear medicine began in 1993 as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. In 1995, she joined Medical Physics Consultants in Ann Arbor as a Consultant in Nuclear Medicine Physics, a position she still holds today.
Her consulting in Nuclear Medicine includes NRC license preparation and amendments, facility inspection, shielding calculations, radiation safety education, equipment quality control, scintillation camera and PET scanner acceptance testing and performance testing. As well as consulting in nuclear medicine departments, she serves as a Radiation Safety Officer at hospitals and nuclear medicine clinics and is a member of several Radiation Safety Committees. She has taught in radiology residence programs, RSO and authorized user programs, the Medical Technology Management Institute’s (MTMI) educational Nuclear Medicine physics workshop, and presented many times on both local and national platforms.
Shelli is an active member in the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), the Central Chapter Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CCSNMMI), the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and the American College of Radiology (ACR).
She has served two terms on the Board of Governors for the CCSNMMI, from 2009-2012 and 2020 finishing her second term in 2026. Additionally, she served as the President for the CCSNMMI (2014-2015 and 2023-2024), Secretary/Treasurer (2012-2014) and Program Chair (2021-2023).
She is also an active member of committees for the ACR and ABR. Currently she is serving as the chair for the ACR Subcommittee on Nuclear Medicine Physics and is a physics reviewer for the ACR Nuclear Medicine Accreditation program. ABR committees include ABR MOC Advisory Committee (MP) 2023-2026 and MP OLA NMP, Senior Reviewer: 2017-2026.
Outside of Nuclear Medicine,Shelli is an ardent volunteer leader, currently serving as President of the Whitmore Lake Public School Board of Education, Vice President of the Whitmore Lake Community Scholarship Fund, Secretary of the Whitmore Lake Foundation for Educational Excellence and Vice President of the Whitmore Lake Music Booster Club, among others.
She and her husband Jim have been married 28 years. They have three boys: Mark and Luke in college, and Joey, a freshman in high school. In her spare time, some of her favorite activities with her family include riding ORVs, hiking, and camping while visiting National Parks across the US and Canada. She, and the family, love to visit their former exchange student, Jaime, and his family in Spain. For relaxation, she loves to train for running events including full marathons, having completed 9.
