50th Annual Meeting

Program Details
Our program committee has developed a meeting program designed for nuclear medicine physicians, technologists, pharmacists, radiologists, oncologists, and scientists involved in the field of Nuclear Medicine. IIndividuals attending the course of lectures will be able to:

Describe historic trends in nuclear medicine imaging and its future economic impact
Review the latest indications and usage for oncologic and non-oncologic PET
Describe future trends for this PET and PET/CT
Explain the latest trends in the field of nuclear cardiology
Discuss some of the recent instrumentation advances, as well as radiopharmaceutical advances that are impacting the practice of nuclear medicine
Review the principles of pediatric imaging and employ modifications that PET imaging introduces
Anticipate the increased importance of nanotechnology within the field of nuclear medicine

Immediately below, you will find our program schedule. Select the following link to skip to specific, newly-updated Accreditation Statements.

Friday, April 15, 2005
Time	Physician/Scientist Emphasis Room 8, Convention Center	Technologist Emphasis Lila Cockrell Theater, Convention Center
7:00	Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall (Room 7, Convention Center)
8:00	Plenary Session in Lila Cockrell Theater Therapeutic Radionuclides Donald Podoloff, MD
9:00	Plenary Session in Lila Cockrell Theater Southwestern Chapter Multimedia Historical Review Narrators TBD
10:00	Beverage Break - Visit the Exhibits
10:45	The Future of Nuclear Medicine & Its Economic Impact James Thrall, MD
11:45	Lunch - Visit the Exhibits
1:30	Pediatric Imaging Joe Leonard, MD	Myocardial Imaging Artifacts Paul Gililland, CNMT and Henry Lucid, MD
2:30	Pediatric PET Imaging Homer Macapinlac, MD	New & Pending Applications in PET Richard Wahl, MD
3:30	Beverage Break - Visit the Exhibits
4:15	Plennary Session in Lila Cockrell Theater Walter Durham Lecture: Ethics in Nuclear Medicine Bruce Barron, MD
5:15	Beverage and Hors d'oeuveres Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Saturday, April 16, 2005
7:00	Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall (Room 7, Convention Center)
8:00	Plenary Session in Lila Cockrell Theater Ted Bloch Lecture: Molecular Imaging & Nanotechnology James Thrall, MD
9:00	Plenary Session Plenary Session in Lila Cockrell Theater Winfield Evans Lecture: Nanotechnology Now & the Future Beth Goins, PhD and William Phillips, MD.
10:00	Beverage Break - Visit the Exhibits
10:45	Plenary Session in Lila Cockrell Theater Non-Oncological Clinical PET Richard Wahl, MD
11:45	Lunch - Visit the Exhibits	Technologist Section Business Meeting 11:45 - 12:15 Followed by Lunch (on own) - Visit the Exhibits
1:30	PET in Breast Cancer Richard Wahl, MD	Monoclonal Antibodies: Today and the Future Anne Stachowiak, CNMT
2:30	Current Concepts in PET/CT Homer Macapinlac, MD & Don Podoloff, MD	QC for Myocardial Perfusion Studies TBD
3:30	Beverage Break - Visit the Exhibits
4:15	GI Imaging 2005: Hepatic Scintigraphy and More Michael Middleton, MD	PET in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Daniel Silverman, MD
5:15	General Chapter Business Meeting
6:30	Saturday Evening Reception
Sunday, April 17, 2005
7:00	Continental Breakfast Outside the Lila Cockrell Theater
8:00	Plenary Session in Lila Cockrell Theater Ralph Gorten Lecture: Hybrid Cardiac Imaging: New Paradigms Josef Machac, MD
9:10	Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow Josef Machac, MD	Non-Imaging Nuclear Medicine Procedures Carla Bailey, CNMT
10:10	Beverage Break and Announce Unknown Cases Winner
10:30	Overview on the Use of Tc-99m Labeled Agents for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Reed Smith, MD
11:30	Acute Coronary Syndromes: Is there a Place for Stress Myocardial SPECT? Richard Campeau, MD
12:30	Adjourn

Continuing Medical Education Credits
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through a joint sponsorship with the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) and the Southwest Chapter, Society of Nuclear Medicine.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The Society of Nuclear Medicine designates this educational activity for up to 16.0 category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should only claim those credits that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

VOICE Technologist Credit
The Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section (SNMTS), through its Verification of Involvement In Continuing Education (VOICE) program, has approved the SW Chapter 49th Annual Meeting for a maximum of 16.0 continuing education hours (CEHs). VOICE-approved credit is recognized by most licensure states and by the ARRT (as Category A credit). Participants should report only those sessions at which they were present a minimum of 80% of the presentation.

Continuing Physicist Education
The Texas Administrative Code (refer to Title 22, Part 26, Rule 601.20) states that attendance at scientific sessions sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine is acceptable continuing education. It is necessary to obtain and retain a certificate of attendance and a program brochure or final program book.

Continuing Pharmaceutical Education
The Society of Nuclear Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education. The assigned universal program numbers for this meeting begin with 210-999-05-014-L04 thru 210-999-05-031-L04 (L01 - Therapy and L04 - General Pharmacy up to 16.0 or 1.60 CEUs).
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To receive continuing pharmaceutical education credit, pharmacists must complete a Credit Reporting Form indicating courses attended, sign, date and return it to the Registration desk. An ACPE Statement of Credit will be mailed with-in four weeks after the meeting.