Central Chapter Members Receive Awards

At the 2005 Spring Meeting, the Technologist Section awarded three new prizes for student presentations. The presentations were judged on scientific/educational merit, organization, practicality, presentation and technical merit. The First Place prize of $200 was awarded to Paul Papineau from Northwestern Memorial Hospital for his talk “Estimate the Spatial Resolution and its Energy Dependence of a Dedicated PET Scanner”. Genica S. Zdenek, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, was awarded $150 for Second Place for her talk on the radiochemical stability of I-131 Chlorotoxin. Devin Miller, also from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, received the Third Place prize of $100 for his talk on bremsstrahlung imaging of Y-90 labeled Zevalin. These prizes will be awarded annually at the Spring meeting.

The Technologist Section prize for Best Technologist Paper was awarded to Kevin Perry, CNMT, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, for his presentation entitled “PET/CT Image Artifact from Improper Gantry Offset Value”. Mr. Perry’s abstract was also accepted as a poster presentation at the SNM meeting, so he received a $250 award and $750 toward his expenses to present at the SNM meeting in Toronto.

The Central Chapter awarded its $250 prize for Best Technologist Paper to Alberto Arroyo, CNMT, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo. Mr. Arroyo’s talk was on the impact of CT pulmonary angiography on the V/Q scan and a follow up and comparison of 2004 figures to predicted values.

The Beierwaltes Award for the Best Presentation by a nuclear medicine resident or scientist-in-training ($250) was awarded to Luke Bolek, MD from William Beaumont Hospital. Dr. Bolek’s talk was entitled “Multidetector CT Angiography and Pulmonary Scintigraphy in the Evaluation of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism”.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section recently awarded Paul Cole Scholarships to three students attending programs in the Central Chapter. The winners are William Van Gelder, Mayo Clinic, Hiral Patel, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Natalia Grushchak, also at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The Central Chapter Technologist Section approved a motion at the 2005 meeting to give $2000 to the Paul Cole Scholarship Fund to sponsor scholarships specifically for students attending programs within the Chapter. These scholarships will be in addition to the 30 awarded by the SNMTS.

We congratulate the winners on their hard work and initiative.

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