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Jonathan E. McConathy, M.D., Ph.D.

Jonathan McConathy, M.D., Ph.D., received a B.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then completed the Medical Scientist Training Program at Emory University with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Mark Goodman, Ph.D., and Michael Owens, Ph.D. He pursued postgraduate training at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) in St. Louis, Missouri through a residency in Diagnostic Radiology followed by a fellowship in Nuclear Medicine. Dr. McConathy then joined the faculty of MIR in July 2010 where he served as the Co-Director of the Radiology Research Residency.

Dr. McConathy joined UAB Department of Radiology in December 2015 and serves as the Director of the Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics. In addition to clinical practice in Nuclear Medicine, he remains actively involved in the development and application of positron emission tomography (PET) tracers for oncology and neuroimaging as well as the use of simultaneous PET/MRI for both clinical indications and research.

Undergraduate:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.S. Chemistry
Medical School:
Emory University, M.D., Ph.D.
Residency and Fellowship:
Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Fellowship, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR)

History of positions leading up to UAB:
At MIR:
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Co-Director of the Radiology Research Residency
PET/MRI Steering Committee, member
Cyclotron Facility Steering Committee, member
Medical Director Board for the Center for Clinical Imaging Research, member

History of positions within our department:
Associate Professor of Radiology, Director of the Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics

Current national leadership roles:
President of the Center for Molecular Imaging Innovation and Translation (CMIIT), Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
Associate editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Head of the Brain Imaging Outreach Group, SNMMI
Member of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) starting in 2016
Subchair for the Nuclear Medicine section of the Scientific Program Committee for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

Current research and/or clinical interests/area of expertise:
Clinical interests: multimodality molecular imaging including SPECT/CT, PET/CT and PET/MRI
Research interests: PET tracer development and application for oncology and neuroimaging

Contact Information

Administrative Support:
Angela Grant
P: (205) 934-1388 | agrant@uabmc.edu

Michael V. Yester, Ph.D., DABR, FAAPM, FACR

Retired Professor Emeritus
Assistant Program Director, Imaging Medical Physics Residency Program
Professor, Division of Physics and Engineering
Physicist, Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics (Nuclear Medicine)

Michael V. Yester, Ph.D., DABR, FACR, FAAPM obtained a B.S. in Physics from Christian Brothers College, Memphis, TN, in 1966, followed by a Ph.D., in Physics from Iowa State University, Ames, IA, in 1972.   After a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in the Nuclear Chemistry Division, he was an Instructor in the Medical Physics and Radiation Safety Division at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

After completing training in Medical Physics, he joined the Radiology Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1976 and had primary clinical responsibility in Nuclear Medicine.   In 2002, he became Director of the Physics and Engineering Division.

Dr. Yester is active in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, has served on the American College of Radiology Mammography Accreditation Physics Subcommittee and currently serves on the Nuclear Medicine Accreditation Physics subcommittee. He is also on the American Board of Radiology Nuclear Medicine Physics Exam Committee.

His current interests involve dual energy CT, PET, dual energy mammography, and bone densitometry.