Central Chapter Successfully Re-Launches
Fall Educational Program

After a five year hiatus, the Central Chapter successfully re-instated the Fall Educational Symposium, Fusing Form and Function, October 1-2, 2005 at the Hilton Mall of American Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The day and a half program on the fundamentals and clinical applications of fused scans was attended by 100 nuclear medicine physicians and technologists, earning 9.0 credit hours of CME or VOICE credit from the Society of Nuclear Medicine. The program, chaired by Robert R. Butler, MD, PhD and Linda L. Laman, CNMT, combined general information of mutual interest to physicians and technologists with concurrent sessions specifically designed for physicians and technologists.

The evaluations rated the program and presentations very high. Based on the success of the 2005 Fall Educational Symposium, the Central Chapter is scheduling a Fall Symposium in October 2006 in Traverse City, Michigan. A summary of the 2006 Fall Education Symposium is included elsewhere in this issue of the newsletter.

A full house listens to the technology track at the 2005 Fall meeting.

Fall meeting attendees enjoy a refreshment break while visiting with exhibitors.

The 2005 program on image fusing included the following topics and speakers.

Saturday, October 1, 2005

• Fusing Personnel: Update on SNM and ACR Requirements for Physicians Interpreting Fused Scans,--Gary L. Dillehay, MD
• Training Requirements for Nuclear Medicine, CT and Radiation Therapy Technologists-- Anne C. Chapman, CNMT, RTR, FSNMTS
• PET Radiopharmacy-- D. Scott Holbrook, BS, CNMT, FSNMTS
• Initial Clinical Experience with SPECT/CT--Donald R. Neumann, MD, PhD

Clinical Track

• Head and Neck Anatomy & CT Correlations-- Blake A. Carlson, MD
• Fusion and ENT Perspective-- Robert W. Smith, MD
• Chest: Anatomy and CT Correlations-- Anders M. Knutzen, MD
• Use of PET Scan by Pulmonologists-- Lee M. Kamman, MD

Technology Track

• CT Applications and Procedures for the PET/CT Technologist-- Keith R. Stone, BS, RTR, CT, MR
• X-ray Contrast and Contrast Related Reactions--Jeffrey M. Barkmeier, MD
• Medical Image Fusion: How it Works-- Linda L. Laman, PET, CNMT
• Recognizing Drug Induced ECG Abnormalities-- John B. Davis, MD

Sunday October 2, 2005

• Abdomen and Pelvis: Anatomy and CT Correlations--Subbarao Inampudi, MD
• Fusion Favors the Prepared Mind-- Robert R. Butler, Jr., MD, PhD
• Cyberknife Stereotactic Radiosurgery-- Andrew S. Fink, MD
• Fused PET: A Radiation Oncologist’s Point of View--Xin Wang, MD, PhD

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