Nuclear Medicine Noon Conference

Dr. Leonard M. Freeman

Vice Chairman  Department of Nuclear Medicine
Director of Nuclear Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center (Moses Division)
Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York  

Dr. Leonard M. Freeman is a native New Yorker who attended Stuyvesant High School and received his B.A. degree from New York University and his M.D. degree from the University of Health Sciences-Chicago Medical School. Starting with his Radiology residency at Bronx Municipal (Jacobi) Medical Center, he has been a part of the Einstein/Montefiore medical community for more than 40 years. At the present time, he is the Director of the Moses department of Nuclear Medicine and Vice Chairman of the Department at AECOM. He is a Professor of  both Nuclear Medicine and Radiology at AECOM.

He has served as the editor and/or co-editor of several texts and periodicals including 3 editions of Clinical Radionuclide Imaging (1969-1985), Nuclear Medicine Annual (1980-2004) and the recently published Clinical Nuclear Medicine (2007). With his colleague, M. Donald Blaufox, Dr. Freeman has co-edited the bi-monthly Seminars in Nuclear Medicine for 39 years and, in the past, the Physicians Desk Reference for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. He also serves on the editorial board of several publications including the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and the Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 book chapters and 150 original journal articles as well as several invited journal and book guest editorials.  He is also a frequently invited speaker at national and international meetings and has given several named guest lectureships. During his career, he also has been an invited visiting professor at more than 50 academic and community medical centers.

Dr. Freeman has served as President of the National Society of Nuclear Medicine and is a past Chairman of the Society’s Public Relations and Awards committees. He is a past Chairman of the Nuclear Medicine Section of the New York Academy of  Nuclear Medicine.  He has been recognized with several honors including the distinguished alumnus award of the Chicago Medical School, AOA honorary medical fraternity, distinguished educator award of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the SNM’s greater NY Chapter’s Berson-Yalow award. He has been listed for more than two decades in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, WW in the East, WW in the World and WW in Science and Engineering. He also is a long-standing biographee in Woodward –White and Castle-Connolly’s Best Doctors publications ,NewYork magazine’s Best Doctors in New York and the Guide To America’s Top Physicians published by the Consumer Research Council.