Program Co-Chairs Michael Brophey, MD and David Blea, CNMT have developed an excellent program designed for nuclear medicine physicians, technologists, pharmacists, radiologists, oncologists, and scientists involved in the field of Nuclear Medicine. Individuals attending the course of lectures will be able to:
1. Review essential protocols involved in general nuclear medicine procedures, including brain and renovascular
2. Describe the latest applications of PET with an emphasis on cross-sectional anatomy correlation
3. Review integrated and other cardiac imaging techniques
4. Restate vital personal and inter-relational skills in the Nuclear Medicine workplace

Directly below the program schedule is important information regarding our Continuing Education Credits and our Call for Abstracts.

Preliminary Program Schedule

	Friday, March 30, 2007
Time	Physician/Scientist Emphasis	Technologist Emphasis
8:00	Plenary Session Renovascular Hypertension Kenneth Johnson, MD, Cardiologist, HeartPlace, Dallas, TX
9:00	Plenary Session The SNM and Molecular Imaging Michael Devous, Sr., PhD, Associate Director, Nuclear Medicine Ctr., UTSWMC, Dallas, TX
10:00	Beverage Break – Visit the Exhibits & Posters
10:30	History of Nuclear Laboratory Accreditation Terence Beven, MD, Nuclear Medicine Associates, SNM Secretary-Treasurer, Baton Rouge, LA	Real Pet Imaging (Veterinarian's Perspective) Brian Poteet, DVM, Director of Diagnostic Imaging, Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists, Houston, TX
11:30	Clinical Uses of PET and SPECT Brain Imaging Dana Mathews, PhD, MD, Professor & Medical Director of PET Facility, UTSWMC, Dallas, TX	Diversity in Medicine Janet Champagne, MBA, CNMT, Diagnostic Imaging Manager, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
12:30	Lunch – Visit the Exhibits & Posters
2:00	The History of NM Training and Practice in a Multimodality World Darlene Metter MD, Associate Professor in Radiology, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX and Bobby Brown, CNMT, Faculty Chair of Allied Health, Galveston College/UTMB, Galveston, TX
3:00	Beverage Break – Visit the Exhibits & Posters
3:30	Parathyroid Imaging Twyla Bartel, DO, Assistant Professor of Radiology, UAMS, Little Rock, AR	SPECT/CT: Current State of the Art William Erwin, MS, Senior Medical Physicist, Dept. of Imaging Physics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
4:30	V/Q Lung Scanning in 2006 Henry Royal, MD, Associate Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute, St. Louis, MO	Best Stressed Nanci Burchell, CNMT, FSNMTS, Section Chair of Nuclear Medicine, Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
5:30	Reception in the Exhibit Hall

	Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time	Physician/Scientist Emphasis	Technologist Emphasis
7:15	Technologist Section Business Meeting (Cont. breakfast available; several door prizes, too)
8:00	Maintenance of Certification Henry Royal, MD, Associate Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute, St. Louis, MO	Nuclear Pharmacy Regulations and Q.C. with Cyclotron Leroy Candelaria, President/CEO, Biotech Pharmacy, El Paso, TX
9:00	Plenary Session   PET & Therapy at MD Anderson Cancer Center Donald Podoloff, MD, Division Head, Diagnostic Imaging, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
10:00	Beverage Break – Visit the Exhibits & Posters
10:30	Plenary Session   PET & Diagnosis at MD Anderson Cancer Center Homer Macapinlac, MD, Section Chief, Clinical Nuclear Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
11:30	Plenary Session   PET Management at MD Anderson Cancer Center Nancy Swanston, CNMT, Diagnostic Imaging Supervisor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
12:30	Lunch – Visit the Exhibits & Posters
2:00	PET/CT for Detecting Infection and Monitoring Treatment Response Ronald Walker, MD, Director, PET/CT & Medical Cyclotron Facility, UAMS, Little Rock, AR	Cross Sectional Anatomy Eric Rohren, MD, PhD, Partners Imaging Center, Sarasota, FL
3:00	PET/CT Artifacts Fernando Cesani, MD, Associate Professor and PET/CT Facility Director, UTMB, Galveston, TX	CT Basics for the Nuclear Medicine Technologist Kevin F. Reynolds, RT(R)(CT), Manager, Cross Sectional Imaging, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
4:00	Beverage Break – Visit the Exhibits & Posters
4:30	CT Correlation to PET Eric Rohren, MD, PhD, Partners Imaging Center, Sarasota, FL	Back to the Basics of Nuclear Medicine, David Gilmore, MS, CNMT, Asst. Professor, NMT Program, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Boston, MA
5:30	General Business Meeting
6:30	Reception at the Worthington (additional registration cost)

	Sunday, April 1, 2007
Time	Physician/Scientist Emphasis	Technologist Emphasis
8:00	Plenary Session Preventative Cardiology & Imaging John Ho, MD, Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Cooper Clinic, Dallas, TX
9:00	Fast Cardiac SPECT Protocols S. James Cullom, PhD, Director of Research & Development, Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies LLC, Kansas City, MO			Cardiac Imaging: Pumped for the Future, Part I April Mann, CNMT, FSNMTS, Manager, Non-Invasive Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, South Hadley, MA
10:00	Beverage Break
10:15	Half Time Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Gary Heller, MD, PhD, Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT	Cardiac Imaging: Pumped for the Future, Part II David Gilmore, MS, CNMT, Asst. Professor, NMT Program, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Boston, MA
11:15	Plenary Session Integrated Cardiac Imaging Jeffrey Schussler, MD, Cardiologist, HeartPlace, Dallas, TX
12:15	Adjourn

Continuing Education Information
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) and the SW Chapter, SNM.The SNM is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 18 category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Technologists - The Chapter has applied for 18 VOICE credits through the Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Pharmacists - CPE credits pending approval from the Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Call for Abstracts
The Program Co-Chairs are soliciting abstracts for poster presentation only. Abstracts may report on basic nuclear medicine science, research, clinical investigations, or interesting case reports. The selection will be based on subject originality, study design, and scientific relevance to medical knowledge. The reporting of appropriate data and conclusions in the abstract is critical to the selection process. Participation by residents, fellows, prractitioners, and technologists is strongly encouraged.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, December 29, 2006! Abstracts received by this date and accepted by reviewers will be published in a Spring issue of the Clinical Nuclear Medicine journal. To submit an abstract, simply email your abstract as an attached file to the Chapter office (cmetzger@swcsnm.org). Abstracts must be 250 words or less.