| Education: |
1952 B.S., Ursinus College
1956 M.D., Thomas Jefferson University Medical School |
| Postgraduate Training and Fellowship
Appointments: |
1956-1957 Intern, Thomas Jefferson
University Medical School, Philadelphia, PA
1957-1959 Captain, Medical Corp., United States Air Force
1959-1962 Resident, Internal Medicine, Wayne State University and
Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, MI |
| Specialty Certification: |
1963 American Board of Internal
Medicine
1972 American Board of Nuclear Medicine |
| Licensure: |
Delaware |
| Faculty Appointments: |
1976- Associate Professor, Delaware
Technical and Community College
1970- Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson
University and Medical School |
| Hospital and Administrative Appointments: |
1963-1965 Investigator, American
Cancer Society, Delaware Division
1974-1982 Teaching Staff, Oncologic Service, Medical Center of Delaware
1972-1994 Section Chief, Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear
Medicine, Medical Center of Delaware
1972-1982 Attending Chief, Medicine and Oncology, Medical Center
of Delaware and St. Francis Hospital
1982- Senior Attending, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Center of Delaware |
| Memberships in
Professional and Scientific Societies: |
| National Societies: |
American Medical Association
Society of Nuclear Medicine
(President, Mid-Eastern Chapter, 1966-1967)
American College of Physicians
(Fellow, 1966)
American College of Nuclear Physicians
President: 1998-1999
(Editor, "Scanner", Official Publication, 1981-1983)
(Regent, 1981-1982)
(Fellow, 1982)
(Publications Committee, 1982-1996)
(Practice Management and Economics Committee, 1986-)
(Regent, (1995-1998)
(By-Laws Committee, 1984-1988)
(Government Affairs Committee, 1986-)
(Technologies Affairs Committee, 1985-)
(Nominating Committee, 1990-1999)
(Speakers Bureau, "Radiation Information Network", 1986-)
American Federation for Clinical Research
Civil Aviation Medical Association
Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society
American College of Physician Executives
Medicare/Pennsylvania Blue Cross and Blue Shield
(Professional Standards Review Board, 1989-1991)
Nuclear Medicine Technologies Certification Board
(Board of Directors, 1989-1998) |
| Local Societies: |
American Society of Internal Medicine
(President, Delaware Chapter, 1974-1975)
Delaware Society of Nuclear Medicine
(President, 1978-1979)
(Secretary-Treasurer, 1979-)
American Cancer Society, Delaware Division
(Board of Directors, New Castle County Unit, 1976-1982, 1993-)
(President, New Castle County Unit, 1977-1978, 1999-2001)
(Chairman, Professional Education Committee, 1980-1982)
(President, Delaware Chapter, 1982-1984)
(President, Delaware Chapter, 1995-1996)
Delaware Professional Standards Review Organization
(Board of Directors, 1978-1983)
(President, 1982-1983)
Delaware Academy of Medicine
(President, 1982-1984)
State of Delaware
(Board of Medical Practice, 1984-1991)
Medical Center of Delaware
(Staff Council, 1988-1992)
(Chairman, Radiation Safety Committee, 1983-) |
| Lectures: |
1970 "Lung Perfusion Changes
Due to Hyperbaric Exposure as Demonstrated by Lung Scanning"
National Society of Nuclear Medicine, Washington, DC
1972 "Pathology of the Aquatic Environment" Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology, Washington DC
1990 "Osteoporosis - The Silent Thief" Channel 22, Access
Delaware Program, Wilmington, DE
1993 "Management of The Nuclear Medicine Team" Portland
V.A. Medical Center, Portland, OR
1992 Practice Enhancement Workshop on Managed Care, Moderator and
Director American College of Nuclear Physicians, Washington, DC
1995 Managed Care Symposium, Moderator and Director American College
of Nuclear Physicians, Washing, DC
1995 Managed Care, "Evolution and Involution", Moderator
and Director Society of Nuclear Medicine, Minneapolis, MN
1996 Managed Care, "The New Millennium:, Moderator and Director
Society of Nuclear Medicine, Washington, DC |
| Publications |
| 1. |
Meckelnburg, R.L.: Clinical Value
of Generator Produced 87m Strontium. Journal of Nuclear Medicine
5: 929-935, 1964. |
| 2. |
Meckelnburg, R.L.: The Resin Sponge
T3 Uptake Test. Delaware Medical Journal 38, No. 5: 103-106, 1965. |
| 3. |
Mecklenburg, R.L.: External Localization
of Intracranial Lesions. Delaware Medical Journal 38, No. 1: 1-6,
1966. |
| 4. |
Meckelnburg, R.L.: To Dive or
Not to Dive, Medical Evaluation for Scuba Diving. Delaware Medical
Journal 44, No. 3: 91, 1972. |
| 5. |
Rickels, K, Gordon, P, Mecklenburg,
RL, Whalen, E, Sabolosky, L, Dion, H: Iprindole in Neurotic Depressed
General Practice Patients, A Controlled Study. Psychosomatics Vol
IX, 1968. |
| 6. |
Sagar, VV, Piccone, J, Mecklenburg,
RL: Gallium Scanning in the Diagnosis of Liver Disease. Maryland
State Medical Journal Dec, 43, 1975. |
| 7. |
Sagar, VV, Rothfield, B. Lockett,
F, Meckelnburg, RL: Detection of Bone Trauma after Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation by Bone Scanning. Maryland Medical Journal Nov, 1977. |
| 8. |
Meckelnburg, RL: Medical Requirements
for Scuba. Delaware Medical Journal 50, No. 1, 25-28, 1978. |
| 9. |
Sagar, VV, Piccone, J, Meckelnburg,
RL: Dynamic Flow Study in Warthin's Tumor of Parotid Gland. Clinical
Nuclear Medicine Nov, 1977. |
| 10. |
Sagar, VV, Meckelnburg, RL, Piccone,
J: Resolution of Bone Scan Changes in Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy
(HPO) in Untreated Carcinoma of the Lung. Clinical Nuclear Medicine
3, No. 12, 472-475, 1978. |
| 11. |
Sagar, VV, DelDuca, V, Jr., Meckelnburg,
RL: Spleen Scan in Histiocytic Lymphoma - Response to Therapy. Clinical
Nuclear Medicine 4, No. 1, 18-19, 1979. |
| 12. |
Meckelnburg, RL: Bone Scanning
and Cancer. Delaware Medical Journal 51, No. 7, 377-378, 1979. |
| 13. |
Sagar, VV, Meckelnburg, RL, Chaikin,
H: Bone Scan in Rhabdomyolysis. Clinical Nuclear Medicine 5, No.
7, 1980. |
| 14. |
Meckelnburg, RL: Mechanism and
Detection of Osteoporosis. Delaware Medical Journal 57, No. 6, 355-358,
1985. |
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