Program
The Conference will commence Friday 25 April with the Pre-Conference Symposium at The Farm in the Barossa Valley. Plenary and concurrent sessions will commence Saturday 26 April with a Welcome Reception in the evening. Plenary and concurrent sessions will continue Sunday 27 April. The Conference dinner will be held Sunday evening at the Adealide Convention Centre. Plenary and concurrent sessions conclude Monday 28 April before lunch.
Preliminary Schedule
Thursday 24 April
| 09:00 - 12:30 | ANZSNM Committee | ||||
| 11:00 - 20:00 | Golf with Gordon - depart Adelaide Convention Centre | ||||
| 13:30 - 17:00 | ANZSNM Council | ||||
Friday 25 April
| 10:00 - 16:30 | Pre-Conference Symposium – Lymphatics in Cancer - buses depart Adelaide Convention Centre at 8.30am | ||||
| 10:00-17:00 | Exhibitor set up | ||||
| 16:30-20:00 | AANMS Council | ||||
Saturday 26 April
| 07:00 | Siemens Breakfast Session Quantify the difference with xSPECT (includes a continental breakfast). Dr Hans Vija, PhD, Siemens Healthcare Dale Bailey PhD, Principal Physicist, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital |
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| 07:30 | Registration | ||||
| 08:15 | Official Opening | ||||
| 08:30 | Plenary - Imaging Markers and Therapy Response | ||||
| 08:30 | Plenary 1 Prof Chaitanya Divgi - Development of molecular imaging markers | ||||
| 09:15 | Plenary 2 Prof Wim Oyen - Therapy Response monitoring with FDG - PET/CT | ||||
| 10:00 | Morning tea | ||||
| 10:30-12:00 | Concurrent Sessions 1A - 1E | ||||
| 10:30 | 1A AANMS Symposium: Cardiology Corner | 1B Technologists Symposium | 1C Physics Symposium | 1D Radiopharmacy Symposium | 1E CTCA Refresher Course |
| 12:00 | AANMS General Meeting | Technologist's AGM | Physics SIG AGM | AGM and SIG Discussions | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | Lowenthal Lecture - Dr Leighton Barnden | ||||
| 14:45 | ARTnet - launch of a ANZSNM and AANMS joint venture clinical trial network | ||||
| 15:15 | Afternoon tea | ||||
| 15:45-17:15 | Concurrent Sessions 2A - 2E | ||||
| 15:45 | 2A Registrar Presentations AANMS Awards | 2B Technologists Symposium | 2C Physics Symposium | 2D Radiopharmacy Symposium | 2E CTCA Refresher Course |
| 17:35 - 19:05 | Welcome Reception | ||||
| 19:30 | NUC's Party - Welcome to the Lion's Den | ||||
Sunday 27 April
| 07:00 | Insight Breakfast Session Vereos, The world’s first and only digital PET/CT. First clinical impressions and technical characteristics. Come and join us for a look at the future in molecular imaging and a continental breakfast. Dr Graeme O’Keefe Principal Physicist, Austin Health “A technical insight into digital PET technology” Prof. Peter Faulhaber Professor of Radiology Case Western Reserve University Director of Clinical PET, University Hospital Case Medical Center "PET/CT: A New Frontier" |
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| 08:30 | Plenary - Infection and Inflammation | ||||
| 08:30 | Plenary 3 Prof Vijay Kumar - General Nuclear Medicine imaging in infection/inflammation” (an Australian perspective with an emphasis on Tc-99m colloid WBC imaging) | ||||
| 09:00 | Plenary 4 Prof Wim Oyen - FDG-PET in infections and inflammatory disease | ||||
| 09:30 | Plenary 5 A/Prof Clemens Decristoforo - Novel agents including imaging fungal infections with Ga-68 labelled siderophores | ||||
| 10:00 | Discussion | ||||
| 10:15 | Morning tea | ||||
| 10:45-12:00 | Concurrent Sessions 3A - 3C | ||||
| 10:45 | 3A Oncolgy - Therapy/Imaging | 3B Free papers | 3C CTCA Refresher Course | ||
| 12:00 | ANZSNM AGM | ||||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | 4A Controversy Corner - Radiation | 4B CTCA Refresher Course | 4C TSIG Scope of Practice Discussion Panel | ||
| 15:15 | Afternoon tea | ||||
| 15:30 | Poster Walk | ||||
| 16:00 | Concurrent Sessions 6A - 6C | ||||
| 5A Gastro and Neurology Update | 5B Free papers | 5C CTCA Refresher Course | 5D - An introduction to the ANZSNM Minimum Quality Control Schedule for Gamma Cameras | ||
| 17:30 | Close | ||||
| 19:00 | Gala Dinner - Sporting legends - night of nights | ||||
Monday 28 April
| 08:30 | Plenary | ||||
| 08:30 | Plenary 6 Prof Jamshid Maddahi - Cardiac imaging complementary or competitive | ||||
| 09:15 | Plenary 7 Prof Chaitanya Divgi - Advances in thyroid cancer therapy | ||||
| 10:30 | Morning tea | ||||
| 10:45-12:00 | Concurrent Sessions 5A - 5B | ||||
| 10:30 | 6A PET Corner | 6B Paediatrics/Free Papers | |||
| 11:45 | Pioneer Lecture - Max Bellon | ||||
| 12:30 | Conference highlights | ||||
| 13:00 | Close | ||||