2026 SNMMI Highlights Lecture: Cardiovascular Sciences

The Highlights Lecture, presented at the closing session of each SNMMI Annual Meeting, was originated and presented for more than 30 years by Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD. Beginning in 2010, the duties of summarizing selected significant presentations at the meeting were divided annually among 4 distinguished nuclear and molecular medicine subject matter experts. The 2026 Highlights Lectures were delivered on June 2 at the SNMMI Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, California. Presented here is the lecture by René R. Sevag Packard, MD, PhD, Associate Professor-in-Residence, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, California, who spoke on cardiovascular topics presented at the meeting. Note that in the following presentation summary, numerals in brackets represent abstract numbers as published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (2026;67[suppl 1]).