Mark Soffing BCNP, PharmD, MBA, MS

Mark Soffing’s first “exposure” to nuclear pharmacy was an externship at Staten Island Public Health Hospital, supervised by Neil Abel, an Officer originally trained by William Briner. Over the ensuing 42 years, he has had the good fortune to marry Joanne, an extremely-patient wife, and have two married children and one grandson.

Dr. Soffing began work at Syncor on Long Island. He was later recruited to establish Nuclear Pharmacy satellites, along with local and remote University externships, at New York Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering. He then went on to join IBA Molecular as VP Regulatory and Corporate Radiation Safety Officer (RSO), later becoming VP Operations. For the last 15 years, Dr. Soffing serves as Associate Director and Cyclotron RSO of the PET Center at Columbia University.

After receiving his BS in Pharmacy from St. John’s University, Dr. Soffing completed Radiopharmacy-AU Certificate at USC. He went on to earn an MS in Radiation Science from Rutgers University, an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and completed a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree at the University of Florida.

Dr. Soffing has been an active APhA member, serving as Member-At-Large for the Nuclear Pharmacy Practice Section from 2005-2007, and spearheaded the creation of the first three live BCNP CE Sessions, University-accredited, for the APhA Annual Meeting. When elected Nuclear Pharmacy Special Interest Group Coordinator-elect and Coordinator from 2013-2015, he saw to it that that the Radiopharmaceutical Supplier Qualification Tool was completed and ready for publication by APhA by the end of his term. He also serves on several committees for the Society of Nuclear Medicine, maintains plenary membership in the Health Physics Society, and remains a member of ASHP.

Dr. Soffing was selected as a Member of the New York State Board of Pharmacy in 2021, serving on its USP and MPJE Sub-Committees.