Date: 2010-07-27
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - Katrina Sheets, a rising senior in the Medical College of Georgia Nuclear Medicine Technology Program, placed first in the student poster category at the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s annual international meeting.
(Media-Newswire.com) - AUGUSTA, Ga. - Katrina Sheets, a rising senior in the Medical College of Georgia Nuclear Medicine Technology Program, placed first in the student poster category at the Society of Nuclear Medicine’s annual international meeting.
The meeting was held in Salt Lake City in June.
Sheets, a distance-learning student based in Atlanta, collaborated with physicians and technologists at Emory University on the study seeking distinctive characteristics of head and neck melanoma injection techniques. Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer. Sheets’ retrospective study of radiology reports indicates that head and neck melanomas drain differently than those in the arms and legs, suggesting the need for fewer radical lymph node dissections.
“This was high-level research that was pretty ambitious for an undergraduate student,” said Mimi Owen, director of the program. “It is a great honor for our program.”
Sheets, a native of McDonough, Ga., is one of 14 students nationally to receive a Paul Cole scholarship from the society. She plans to work as a certified nuclear medicine technician in a teaching hospital upon graduation.