Awards
Each year the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM) works to recognise and support excellence within the Australian Nuclear Medicine profession by offering awards for the best presentations accepted to the Annual Scientific Meeting. Six awards are on offer for the 2014 meeting:
- Mallinckrodt Award for Nuclear Medicine Technologist for an oral presentation that improves knowledge in any aspect of nuclear medicine
- GMS Poster Award for investigational, case study or other work presented as a poster at the 44th ASM of the ANZSNM
- RADPHARM Technologist Case Presentation Award
- Gammasonics Award
- ANSTO Award
- AANMS Registrar Research Award.
Award Rules in Brief
Mallinckrodt Award for Nuclear Medicine Technologist
The aim of the Mallinckrodt Award is to foster the spirit of innovation and progress in nuclear medicine.
The Award will be provided for an oral scientific or technical paper presented by an accredited nuclear medicine technologist.
Entries will be considered on their value in improving knowledge in any aspect of nuclear medicine. While the study need not be totally original, considerable attention will be paid to the basic idea, to the individual effort and to the lack of dependence on non-technical aspects such as scan interpretation or clinical assessment. The fundamental requirements of any scientific paper, such as clarity of description of the studied problem in the context of published data, critical evaluation of results, utilisation of statistical or other relevant methodologies, as well as the presentation itself, will be taken into account. Acknowledgement of people or agencies that have contributed substantially to the work must the included.
A candidate for the Award must submit an abstract for the ASM as with any other paper. Submission of abstracts must be in accordance with the requirements of the ASM.
The Mallinckrodt Award is sponsored by Mallinckrodt. The award will consist of $1500 to assist you in attending a CPD activity of your choice.
Full rules are available here.
GMS Poster Award
The aim of the GMS Poster Award is to encourage innovative and progressive work in the field of nuclear medicine.
This Award will be made on investigational, case study or other work presented as a poster at the ANZSNM ASM. The entrant must nominate the poster as eligible for the Poster Award by selecting the Poster Award category at time of submission.
A candidate for the Award must submit an abstract for the ASM as with any other paper. Submission of abstracts must be in accordance with the requirements of the ASM.
The award will consist of a $500 cash prize presented by a GMS representative at the award ceremony during the Gala Dinner.
Full rules are available here.
RADPHARM Technologist Case Presentation Award
Entries to the Award will be Nuclear Technologists employed within the field of Nuclear Medicine. Such entries will have been financial members of the Society for at least 6 months at the time of presentation at the ANZSNM ASM. Students undertaking an approved course of study in Nuclear Medicine are eligible to enter.
The Award will be made for an Oral Case Presentation of a single (One (1)) patient's study(s) performed within the Nuclear Medicine workplace. An initial Sponsorship (part 1) will be made to the winning entrant in the Home State. The Award (Part 2) will be made at the Technologist Symposium of the ASM. Previous State Winners may submit and present further case studies, however, they will be ineligible to become the State Winning Entrant for a period of two years.
Full rules are available here.
Gammasonics Award
The Award will be made for the abstract submitted for presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting scoring the highest overall grading in the area of instrumentation, radiation protection, NM physics and/or radionuclide therapy research. The objective of the award is to encourage scientific communications in the general field of radiation measurement and dosimetry.
Entrants for the Award may be from any discipline within the field of Nuclear Medicine. The entrant must be a financial member of ANZSNM of at least six months standing.
The Award is not open to employees of Gammasonics, or for work or research carried out whilst an employee of Gammasonics.
The paper must be presented by the author at the Annual Meeting of the ANZSNM for which it was submitted in the format requested (withdrawn abstracts forfeit the award).
Authors are not required to nominate their abstract for entry to this award at the time of submission.
The Award, provided by Gammasonics Pty Ltd, will be for $1000 to be used towards a continuing education related activity.
Full rules are available here.
ANSTO Award
The Award will be made for significant innovation in research or clinical practice in the field of Nuclear Medicine. Applicants are urged to submit the paper for oral or poster presentation at an international medical specialty meeting, with acceptance being a significant pointer to the merit of the work for the award. The objective of the award is to highlight the high calibre of Australian Nuclear Medicine and ANSTO's role in supporting it, to as diverse an audience as possible - particularly the Nuclear Medicine referral base.
The Award will be for $3000 for documented expenses incurred to attend an international nuclear medicine meeting, eg. the Society of Nuclear Medicine or the European Association of Nuclear Medicine.
Full rules are available here.
AANMS Registrar Award
The Award is open to advanced trainees in nuclear medicine, who are enrolled in a training program approved by the Joint Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR). Recently qualified trainees may enter, provided that the work for the presentation was carried out during the period of training and is presented at the first ANZSNM ASM after the completion of training. Entries are limited to one per candidate. Previous successful recipients of this Award may not enter for the Award again.
The Award is for work that provides new data of clinical and scientific merit and involves the use of nuclear medicine techniques.
The Award will be for travel up to the value of $3000 to enable attendance at an approved nuclear medicine meeting.