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John Alton Burdine, MD, a nuclear medicine physician, past president of SNM, and noted leader and organizer at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston (TX), died on April 12.
Dr. Burdine was born in Austin (TX) in 1936. His father was John A. Burdine, Sr., MD, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. The young Burdine graduated from his father's institution in 1959. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1961. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Indiana University Medical Center (Indianapolis) and returned to Galveston for residency in internal medicine. During his residency, he first became interested in nuclear medicine scanning techniques.
In 1965, Dr. Burdine moved to Houston, where he became a professor of radiology and professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, while also serving as chief of the nuclear medicine sections at Baylor and for the Harris County Hospital...