Northern Nuclear Medicine
AM & J Snarski Pty Ltd
ABN 78009 580 849
Our Doctors
Dr Andrew Snarski
MBBB, MD.Ph.D, Specialist Physician in Nuclear Medicine, Memb ANZ Assoc. Physicians Nuc Med.
- MBBS 1966,Medical School of Gdansk, Poland;
- MD PH.D. 1972, Medical School of Gdansk, Poland
- Spec.Physician in Internal Medicine,1974,Warsaw,Poland
- Consultant Thyroid Clinic of Gdansk,Poland 1974-82
- Director Nuclear Med Dep.,Medical School of Gdansk,Poland 1978-82
- Consultant in Nuclear Med. and Thyreology for Northern Poland 1978-82
- Postgr Scholarship Med.Res.Centre Prince Henry’s Hosp,Melbourne 1983-4
- Director Dep Nucl Med. Launceston General Hospital 1984-99
- Director-Owner, Northern Nuclear Medicine 1989-present
Dr Joanna Snarski
MBBS, MD.Ph.D.
- MBBS 1970,Medical School of Gdansk,Poland;
- Specialist Physician in Internal Medicine 1978,Warsaw,Poland
- MD Ph.D. 1979,Medical School of Gdansk,Poland.
- Staff Specialist Dep.Nephrology, Medical School of Gdansk 1978-81.
- Consultant Thyroid Clinic of Gdansk,Poland 1978-81
- Postgr Scholarship Dep.Nephrology Necker Hosp Paris,France 1981-83
- VMO Dep Nucl Med Launceston Gen Hospital 1989-99.
- Director-Owner, Northern Nuclear Medicine 1989-present
Dr Ruth Winterton
MBBCh, MMed Nuclear Medicine
- MBBCh 1981 Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,RSA
- MMed Nuclear Medicine 1992 Univ 0f Witwatersrand,RSA
- Hon Nuc Med Consultant for Johanesburg,Baragwanath & Hillbrow Hospitals 1992-2003
- Nuc Med Consultant Flora Clinic 1992-94
- Director Sandton NuclearMedicine 1994-2003
- NM Specialist Northern Nuclear Medicine 2003-present
A short history of Northern Nuclear Medicine, Tasmania
The service started on the 1st of July 1989 at St Vincents Private Hospital in Launceston with one gamma camera, two part-time Nuclear Medicine Technologists (N.M.T.) and 2 part time Physicians. It was the first private nuclear medicine service in Tasmania.
In 1994 a second gamma camera was installed and the practice acquired larger rooms within St.Vincents Hospital. At the same time a full time N.M.T. and physicist joined the practice .
In 1996 the practice moved to new purpose built premises at St.Vincents. with the addition of a third, double headed, gamma camera. A system of remote image transmission, enabling after hours reporting, was initiated.
In 1999 Dr Andrew Snarski resigned from his position as Director of Nuclear Medicine at the Launceston General Hospital. An offer from Northern Nuclear Medicine (N.N.M.) to continue nuclear medicine services at the L.G.H was accepted by the State Minister for Health with a net cost saving in the first year of A$500,000.
Also in 1999, responding to strong demand for our services in the North West (N.W.) of the State, a third N.N.M. site opend at the N.W. Medical Centre in Burnie. This site provides nuclear medicine services to inpatients from the N.W. Regional and N.W. Private Hospital and also to outpatients from the N.W. and West Coast of Tasmania.
Additions to our staff during 1999 included a Nuclear Medicine R.N. (located at the L.G.H.), a dedicated full time receptionist at our newly built reception area at St. Vincents and two full time and one part time N.M.T.’s. The Burnie site was staffed by one full time technologist living in Devonport.
In 2002, due to a significant increase in the workload of the practice, a locum Nuclear Medicine Physician from Hobart, was employed. During this period the practice also began a recruiting process to find an additional permanent full time Nuclear Medicine Physician. In 2003 we were joined by Dr. Ruth Winterton, a Nuclear Medicine Specialist from South Africa.
At the end of 2004 a new technologist, Mr. Daniel Rossiter, became a full time staff member at our Burnie site, living permanently in Ulverstone. His wife Anita, also a technologist, began working for the practice in late 2005.
N.N.M. has developed a private Internet Broadband Network for image transmission and remote reporting.
All three physicians within the practice are members of the Department of Medicine at the Launceston General Hospital and provide regular teaching sessions for 5th and 6th year medical students and postgraduate sessions for Basic Physician Training.
Regular workshop meetings are held within the Nuclear Medicine Department at the L.G.H. :
- Thursday (each week): Cardiology meetings.
- Tuesday (every second week): Orthopaedic meetings.