WORK ADDRESS

EMPLOYMENT

• Northside Radiology Associates, P.C.
  07/83 - Present
  1989-2002 President
• Northside Hospital/Radiology Dept.
  1989-2002 Chairman

EDUCATION

RESIDENCY

• Diagnostic Radiology - 07/79 – 06/83
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Department of Radiological Sciences
  1982 - 1983
  Chief Resident
• 1982 – 1983
  Member, Steering Committee
  American Association of Academic Chief
  Residents Information, ACR
• 1982 – 1983
  Member, Committee on Resident Information, ACR
• 10/81 – 11/81
  Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

MEDICAL SCHOOL

• Washington University School of Medicine
  08/75 – 06/79
  Class President – 1975 - 1979

UNDERGRADUATE

• University of Michigan
  1970 - 1974
  B.S. in Physics with distinction

CERTIFICATION

• Diplomat, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1980
• American Board of Radiology, 1983

LICENSURE

• State of Georgia

HONORS

• Medical Student Fellowship, Education and Research Foundation, Society of Nuclear Medicine – 1976
• Student Representative, American Association of Medical Colleges
• Regent’s Alumni Scholar – 1970
• Class Honors – 1971, 1973, 1974
• Phi Eta Sigma – 1971

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• 1974-present - University of Michigan Alumni Association
• 1980-present - Radiological Society of North America
• 1980-present - American College of Radiology
• 1983-present - American Medical Association
• Medical Association of Georgia
• Medical Association of Atlanta
• Georgia Radiological Society
• Atlanta Radiological Society
• Society of Breast Imaging

RESEARCH

• 11/14/74 – 05/31/75 - Division of Nuclear Medicine University of Michigan Hospital, Professor of Medicine; Director of Nuclear Medicine Position: Research Assistant, Radiopharmaceutical Lab
• 06/74 – 08/06/76 - Division of Nuclear Medicine University of Michigan Hospital Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Radiology Position: Medical Student Fellow, Clinical Nuclear Medicine

PAPERS

• Zakem JF, Thrall JH, Brown ML., Keyes JW, Kaufman RA. Interpretation of the Pediatric Bone Scan: Normal Developmental Patterns. 1976.

PUBLICATIONS

• Seabold JE, Beierwaltes WH, Zakem JF, Wieland DM, Ice RD: A new radiopharmaceutical approach for an adrenal imaging agent. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Volume 16, No. 6, 566, June, 1975. (Abstract)
• Kaufman RA, Thrall JH, Keyes JW, Brown JL, Zakem JF: False negative bone scans in neuroblastoma metastatic to the ends of long bones. American Journal of Roentgen, Volume 130, 131-135, January, 1978.
• Smith CW, Zakem JF: Emergency angiography. Clinics in Emergency Medicine, Volume 3, Radiology in Emergency Medicine, 207-228, 1984.
• Goodhart GL, Zakem JF, Collins WC, Meyer JD: Brucellosis of the spine: Report of a patient with bilateral paraspinal abscesses. Spine, Volume 12, No. 4, 1987.