ASNC President-elect Jamieson Bourque discusses expanded collaboration with other societies in 2026

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) is entering 2026 with an ambitious agenda to expand international collaborations, release new clinical guidelines and fund innovative research, according to ASNC President-elect Jamieson M. Bourque, MD, medical director of nuclear cardiology, echocardiography and the stress laboratory at UVA Health and professor of medicine and radiology at the University of Virginia.

Bourque said ASNC is building on its growing global footprint, noting that the society had representatives from 94 countries attend its 2025 annual meeting in September. 

“We are very excited to collaborate with our global partners,” he said. “We’re continuing to foster robust partnerships across South and Central America, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania and Europe.”

A centerpiece of ASNC’s international engagement will be when it co-hosts the International Congress of Nuclear Cardiology with the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM). The meeting is scheduled May 17–19, 2026, in Berlin, bringing together nuclear cardiology experts from around the world to address the field’s most pressing clinical and technological challenges.

On the clinical front, ASNC is preparing to release several new guidelines in 2026, including updated recommendations for stress testing protocols and radiotracers for both SPECT and PET imaging.