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The Sebel Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia

   25-26 July 2009

 

 
       
CME/CPD accreditations:

1 RANZCR CME point per hour

1 AIR CPD point per hour (appellation 25.5)

3 ANZSNM CPD points

The conference/workshop covers material that is acceptable to the ACPSEM for CPD of medical physicists/biomedical engineers

 

       
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Program

       
Saturday 25th July

8:30 - 17:00

Time PACS RT NM CT MRI
8:30

 

Introduction to PACS- Lawrie Sim Image-guided radiotherapy: clinical perspective- Laura Dawson Nuclear cardiology: Diagnosis & prognosis 2009- Joao Vitola MDCT imaging of bowel and mesenteric injury- Stu Mirvis The role of Fatsat in MSK imaging- Michael Macilquham
8:45
9:00 PACS: Key building blocks- Frank Carbon CT of spondyloarthopathy- Lindsay Rowe MRI ankle- Peter Smith
9:15 What's hot in neurology- Chris Rowe
9:30 PACS: Systems administration- Liam Caffery 4D CT and consideration of motion in radiotherapy- Tomas Kron Chronic interstitial lung disease- Samantha Ellis 3T pros and cons- Kirsten Moffat
9:45
10:00

Morning Tea

Morning Tea Morning Tea Morning Tea Morning Tea
10:45 Information flows in diagnostic imaging- Frank Carbon Innovations in image-guided radiotherapy: will we make a difference?- Dirk Verellen Nuclear oncology: What the clinicians need to know- Dish Gunawardana  

Temporal bone: a practical approach- Hugh Curtin

Advances in prostate imaging- Ron Shnier
11:00
11:15 Introduction to medical imaging standards: Dicom, HL7, IHE- Liam Caffery The CHISEL study: a TROG randomised trial of stereotactic vs conformal radiotherapy for early lung cancer- David Ball Novel tracers in oncology- Sze Ting Lee
11:30 Philips Achieva 3.0T Tx- David Campling
11:45 Standards II: IHE introduction- David Anderson Cardiac CT in 2009 for the nuclear medicine physician- Joao Vitola Selective non-surgical management of splenic and liver trauma with MDCT/angiographic intervention- Stu Mirvis MRI hip- Peter Smith
12:00
12:15

Lunch

Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
13:30  

NEHTA and the diagnostic imaging sector- Dean Mestom

 

SBRT: What have we learned and what next?- Laura Dawson

Acute cardiac imaging in the ED- Joao Vitola CT of variants that simulate spine fracture- Lindsay Rowe Central skull base- Hugh Curtin
13:45
14:00 The role radiation therapists and medical physicists in clinical trials- Tomas Kron Musculoskeletal imaging- Suba Nadesapillai Volume CT: The value of reformats- Frank Parrish
14:15 Cardiac MRI: a cardiologist's perspective- John Younger
14:30 The marketplace in Australia- Liam Caffery Hyperfractionated SBRT for non-small cell lung cancer: biological considerations- David Ball Lymphoscintigraphy: What's news in CA breast- Robert Howman-Giles Blunt aortic and great vessel injury: still a nemesis- Stu Mirvis
14:45
15:00

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

15:45 Image quality metrics & Docom Part 14- Lawrie Sim IGRT and adaptive therapy in head and neck cancer- Laura Dawson New pharmaceutical agents in myocardial perfusion imaging- Joao Vitola  

MDCT of maxillofacial injury- Stu Mirvis

MR stroke imaging- Lynette Masters

 

16:00
16:15 Diagnostic workstations: The Herston experience- Frank Carbon  

Hazard analysis and QA in radiotherapy- Dirk Verellen

Thyrogen use in Australia: Is it for everyone?- William McDonald
16:30 The thyroid nodule: A surgeon's perspective- Update on concurrent use of Metformin and IV contrast- Stacy Goergen

Landmarks of H&N cancer- Hugh Curtin

16:45 Panel discussion Technology update
       
Sunday 26th July

8:30 - 12:30

Time PACS RT NM CT MRI
8:30 PACS financials- Lawrie Sim Tomotherapy and single arc IMRT- Dirk Verellen Nuclear cardiology: Does it have a role in the developing world?- Joao Vitola Technology update MRI shoulder- Paul O'Connell
8:45
9:00 Buying a PACS: What to ask the vendors- Frank Carbon  

High precision RT in liver cancer RT- Laura Dawson

What's new in renal nuclear medicine: adults and kids- Robert Howman-Giles Larynx imaging- Hugh Curtin Technology update
9:15 MRI breast- Clair Shadbolt

 

9:30 Area wide architecture: The benefits- David Anderson Renal transplantation: What does the clinician need to know from us?- Shlomo Cohney Atypical and missed injuries of the cervical spine- Hugh Curtin
9:45
10:00

Morning Tea

Morning Tea Morning Tea Morning Tea Morning Tea
10:45  

Transition to digital imaging- Peter MacIsaac

In-house developed MOSFET detectors for dosimetry: why but expensive equipment?- Dirk Verellen Stress echocardiography: what's new. Friend or foe?- James Wong  

Emergency imaging of the head and neck- Hugh Curtin

MRI wrist- Paul O'Connell
11:00
11:15 Radiology informatics: a case study- David Anderson The dose bath: out of field low doses of radiation- Tomas Kron Intracranial vasculopathies- Lynette Masters
11:30 Read with the experts: interesting cardiac cases
11:45 Panel discussion CT dose optimisation in the workplace- Anthony Wallace
12:00

 

       
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invited international guest speakers

       

Hugh Curtin, MD

Professor, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Radiology, MEEI
 

Professor Curtin completed his medical degree at Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, and undertook his radiology residency at the Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh. He later completed a fellowship in head and neck radiology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.  He is probably best known as co-editor of 'Head and Neck Imaging', considered the definitive reference for head and neck imaging and now in its fourth edition.

 

Phoenix Conferencing is proud to support Professor Curtin's participation in RADaim 2009.

 

Dirk Verellen

Director, ESTRO IGRT; Course Director, Medical Physics Group, Department of Radiology, Academic Hospital, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

Dr Verellen received his MSc in solid-state physics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and his PhD in medical sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is involved in the training programme for radiation technologists and Course Director for IGRT at the European School of Radiotherapy. Author of over 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers, Dr Verellen is both an editor and/or contributing author of several books.

 

Phoenix Conferencing is proud to support Dr Verellen's participation in RADaim 2009.

 

Stuart Mirvis

Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology , University of Maryland School of Medicine

 

Professor Mirvis graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1979. He undertook radiology residency, followed by a fellowship in trauma radiology, at the University of Maryland Hospital. Professor Mirvis' interests include trauma radiology, angiography and interventional radiology.  He has authored or co-authored over 250 articles, case reports and book chapters, and has received a number of awards, including the Gold Medal of the American Society of Emergency Radiology, and the Shock-Trauma Hero Award. He is a highly sought speaker around the globe, with appearances at international meetings as far afield as Iceland, Norway, England and South Africa.

 

Phoenix Conferencing has great pleasure in supporting Professor Mirvis to RADaim 2009.

 

Joao Vitola

Director, Quanta Diagnostico Nuclear Medicina Nuclear Alto da XV

 

Dr Vitola completed his medical degree at Federal University Medical School, Brazil, and later undertook his residency in nuclear cardiology/nuclear medicine and fellowship in cardiology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr Vitola has served on the editorial board of Journal of Nuclear Medicine since 2002 and he is an expert advisor to the International Atomic Agency. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and meetings and is widely published in the field of nuclear cardiology.

Phoenix Conferencing is pleased to support Dr Vitola's participation at RADaim 2009.

Laura Dawson

Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada

 

Laura completed her medical degree at the University of Toronto, and undertook a fellowship in high precision radiation therapy at the University of Michigan. Her clinical and research interests include hepatobiliary malignancies, central nervous system cancer, intensity modulated radiation therapy and image guided radiation therapy.

 

Professor Dawson's participation at RADaim 2009 is supported by Elekta

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