Draft:Marlene H.P. McKetty

Marlene H.P. McKetty is a now retired Assistant Professor from Howard University who specialized in diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine physics. Throughout her career, McKetty received many awards and held various leadership positions in several organizations and programs, one being the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

McKetty was named a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in 2004.

Early life and education
After attending St Hugh’s High School in Kingston, Jamaica, McKetty graduated with a B.Sc. degree in zoology while minoring in chemistry from the University of the West Indies in 1970. She then moved to the United States where she took classes at Hunter College in addition to becoming a registered radiation therapy technologist at Mt Sinai School of Radiotherapeutic Technology in NYC. McKetty was later accepted into the University of Florida Nuclear Engineering graduate program, studying Medical Radiation Physics. She graduated in 1975 with a MS and in 1978 a PhD.

Career and research
McKetty’s first graduate research project focused on dating artifacts using radioactivity and post graduate school, she worked as a Medical Physicist for two and a half years in the Radiation Therapy Department at Mt Sinai Hospital.[1] Afterward, McKetty was hired as both a Medical Physicist in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Physics, and Assistant Professor at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC. A few years later, she was appointed as Chair of the Howard University Radiation Safety Committee.

Awards and recognition

 * 2004 - AAPM Fellow
 * Academic Award- the Society of Black Students in Engineering
 * Graduate Student Award - The Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 * Graduate School Fellowship for Women in Non-Traditional Fields
 * The University of the West Indies named the McKetty/Butler Assistantship after her

Selected publications