Phillip Hernandez

Accomplished Nuclear Cardiology Manager with a focus on driving growth, enhancing productivity, and ensuring regulatory compliance while prioritizing patient safety. Trusted mentor and leader to technologists, maintaining industry standards and making budget-conscious decisions based on data-driven results. Proven track record of quality assurance through meticulous maintenance and incorporating physician feedback to deliver exceptional diagnostic studies with a compassionate approach to patient care.

• Perform consistent high-quality cardiac PET/CT and SPECT studies.
• Develop and introduce new image processing techniques to enhance efficiency, timing, and accuracy.
• Use appropriate imaging protocol for each patient; recognize problems, develop solutions and take corrective action when necessary.
• Assist in the development, revision, and enforcement of laboratory policies and imaging procedures.
• Provide in-service training to new and existing clinical and technical staff, and serve as a resource for the Non-Invasive laboratory and staff technologists.
• Develop and write protocols for diagnostic radiological equipment, serve as a resource for adjunct faculty.
• Implement new clinical procedures, protocols, hardware and software data analysis, research projects collaboration, create innovation for greater productivity and program enhancement.
• Aid in programs to manage (minimize) radiation doses to patients and personnel.
• Assist in ACR accreditation.
• Previous Technical Director of Inter-societal Accreditation Commission (lAC) for UT Health.
• Maintain and update Policy and Procedure Manuals, monitoring quality assurance, protocols and study consistency, assuring accreditation lAC standards.
• Manage patient workflow, protocol adherence, and nuclear laboratory safety.
• Develop stress study schedules and techniques, with quality as priority, to maximize our patient volume.
• Refine and generate study reports, ensuring prompt study completion for reading physicians.
• Manage nuclear department inventory Cardinal Health radio-pharmacy supply.
• Intravenous catheter training to Echocardiography staff and provide daily support for catheterization.
• Continued advancement in computer experience including: Cedars, GE, Phillips and Digirad workstation platforms, Windows Operating systems, Microsoft Office software and networks.

• Nuclear Medicine Technologists of Houston, 2011-2021
• Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist, 2008-2015
• Multi-Site lAC Technical Director of Nuclear Cardiology Laboratories, 2011-2015
• Dean's List, 2005-2006, 2014
• Nuclear Medicine Student Body Class President, 2007-2008
• Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, 2006-2008

• Over 17 years of experience preparing, measuring and administering medications and radiopharmaceuticals for a variety of Nuclear Medicine procedures.
• Over 10 years CT licensed.
• Manage and schedule routine maintenance, medical physicist compliance visits and calibrations of all specialized laboratory hardware.
• Oversee and submit billable codes for studies performed.
• Regulate radiopharmaceutical waste, return and unused dose credit submission.
• Perform aseptic techniques in the administration of radiopharmaceuticals while observing radiation safety precautions.
• Perform quality control procedures on various cameras (Gamma, PET, PET/CT and Computed Tomography) and laboratory equipment: GE Discovery, GE Ventri, Digirad Cardius&Cardius3, IS2 Pulse, Siemens E. Cam, ADAC Vertex, Vertex-Plus, Forte, Picker 2000, GE PET/CT Discovery, LightSpeed 64 CT and Siemens SPECT/CT Symbia; various dose calibrators and well counters.