Ronald Lanny Van Heertum

Background

Heertum, Ronald Lanny Van was born on November 23, 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of Arnold and Irene Gladys (Ostheimer) V.

Education

Bachelor, Gettysburg College, 1962; Doctor of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, 1966.

Career

Intern, Hackensack (New Jersey) Hospital, 1966-1967; resident in radiology, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center New York, 1967-1969; fellow in radiology and nuclear medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center New York, 1970-1971; clinical assistant department radiology, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center New York, 1971; assistant chief nuclear medicine service, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, 1972; chief nuclear medicine service, Tripler Army Medical Center, 1972-1974; Adjunct Professor School Pharmacy, U. Pacific, Stockton, California, 1973-1974; fellow in nuclear medicine, State University of New York, 1974-1975; assistant chief nuclear medicine section, assistant attending radiologist, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center New York, 1975-1976; clinical assistant professor of radiology School Medicine, New York University, 1977-1983; chief nuclear medicine section, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, 1977-1991; associate attending physician departments radiology and medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, 1977-1978; attending physician departments radiology and medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, 1978-1991; director Nuclear Radiology Residency Training Program, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, 1980-1988, 80-91; assistant director department radiology, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, 1981-1991; medical director School Nuclear Medicine Technology, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, 1982-1991; associate professor clinical radiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, 1983-1988; professor clinical radiology, New York Medical College, 1988-1991; director mini-fellowship program, St. Vincent's Hospital Cerebral SPECT Lng. Center, %; professor clinical radiology, College Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, since 1991; director division nuclear medicine, department radiology, Columbia-Prsbyn. Medical Center, New York, since 1991; attending physician department radiology, Columbia-Prsbyn.

Medical Center, since 1991; director Nuclear Medicine Residency Training Program, Columbia-Prsbyn. Medical Center, since 1991; director Nuclear Radiology Residency Training Program, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, since 1992; attending physician department brain imaging, New York Psychiatric Institute, since 1993; deputy director department radiology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, since 1993; vice department chairman radiology, College Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University, since 1993. Consultant nuclear medicine Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens, 1979-1988, The Long Island College Hospital, 1980-1988, department radiology St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York, since 1991, biological studies unit New York Psychiatric Institute, since 1993, The Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Aging, The John Radcliffe Infirmary and Department of Clinical Pharmacology University of Oxford, since 1993.

Alternate delegate American College Nuclear Physics, 1980-1982. Core member Department of Energy Sponsored Consensus Panel Brain SPECT Perfusion Imaging: Optimizing Image Aquisition & Processing, 1991. Visiting professor Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, 1978, Howard U. Medical College, Washington, 1980, South Hills Health Systems, Pittsburgh, 1981, St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey, 1989, Eastern Virginia Medical School Norfolk General Hospital, 1990, U.Puerto Rico Medical Center, VA Medical Center, 1993, U. Washington Medical Center, Seattle, 1994.

Achievements

• Ronald Lanny Van Heertum has been listed as a noteworthy Physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Major United States Army Reserve, 1971-1974. Fellow American College Radiology (New York State Chapter), New York Academy of Medicine (secretary nuclear medicine section since 1993). Member American College Nuclear Physics, American Roentgen Ray Society, Radiological Society N. American, New York Roentgen Society, New York Medical Society, New York County Medical Society, Society Nuclear Medicine (member of the Board of Governors greater New York chapter 1982-1984, 86-89, member academic county 1988, member brain imaging county since 1988, sub-chairman gastroenterology scientific program committee 1989-1990, president elect brain imaging county 1990-1992, president 1992-1994, subordinate-chairman psychiatry-clinical science program committee 1993-1994), Society Thoracic Radiology (senior member).

Connections

Children: Richard Jonathan, Beth Jennifer. Married Jacqueline Carol Brunetti, September 7, 1980. Children: Jonathan Jason, Kristin Ashley.

Father:

Arnold V.

Mother:

Irene Gladys (Ostheimer) V.

Spouse:

Jacqueline Carol Brunetti

child:

Jonathan Jason Heertum

child:

Richard Jonathan Heertum

child:

Kristin Ashley Heertum

child:

Beth Jennifer Heertum