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| 2006 Annual Spring Meeting to Emphasize Molecular Imaging
Friday, March 24, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Call for Abstracts for 2006 CCSNM Annual Spring Meeting March 24-26, 2006 - Radisson Hotel City Centre
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The
2006 CCSNM Annual Spring Meeting will be held March 24-26, 2006,
at the Radisson Hotel City Centre in Indianapolis, Indiana. The
program is titled Nuclear Medicine 2006: Advances and Applications
in Molecular Imaging. James Fletcher, MD, Indiana University
School of Medicine is chairing the local program committee with
Paul Reaume, CNMT, St. John Macomb Hospital in Warren, Michigan
and Ed Wroblewski, DABSNM, St. Vincent’s Hospital in New
Castle, Indiana serving as co-chairs. Watch your mail, email and
the Chapter’s web site for detailed information and on-line
registration. The preliminary program includes the following:
The
Program Committee of the Central Chapter of the Society of Nuclear
Medicine is soliciting abstracts for papers to be presented at
the 2006 Annual Spring Meeting of the CCSNM, to be held March
24-26, 2006 at the Radisson Hotel City Centre in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
As
I look forward to retiring from active clinical practice I reflect
on the thirty years I’ve spent in nuclear medicine. Actually,
closer to 35 years, but I spent thirty of those years at Loyola.
I entered nuclear medicine just prior to the formation of the
ABNM. Jim Quinn convinced us that there would be an American Board
of Nuclear Medicine and that it was okay to be a nuclear medicine
resident. He assured us that there would be jobs for us and that
there would be a bright future. Strangely enough, I hear the same
reservations today from the nuclear medicine residents that I
heard form our group over thirty years ago. Yet we have had a
successful career, a great run and a good time.
To
increase interest in the field of Nuclear Medicine as well as
the number of people entering the field, the CCSNM-TS is establishing
an urban outreach program designed to inform high-school students
of the educational and job opportunities available in the health
sciences, in general, and Nuclear Medicine, in particular. The
program will be designed to have experts in the field give brief
AV presentations to Junior and Senior high school students on
their scheduled career days. Included will be an overview of the
various Nuclear Medicine job positions that exist in the US as
well a brief description of the job responsibilities. In addition,
a short video presentation will include a few Nuclear Medicine
images to give the attendees a sense of some of the technical
aspects of our field as well as the various diseases that it is
possible to diagnose.  |
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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
SNMTS National Council of Representatives Meeting Report
By Katherine A. Carlson, BA, CNMT, CCRC
The
National Council of Representatives Meeting is a meeting of people
representing the Chapters, industry, education, students, the
Executive Board and the House of Delegates. The NCR has the responsibility
to develop and recommend to the Executive Board, policies and
programs regarding professional issues affecting nuclear medicine
technology. Several issues of importance to the Chapters were
discussed at the NCR meeting, held prior to the 2005 Society of
Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting.
NMTCB and VOICE
The Educational policy of the NMTCB will become effective January 1, 2006. Voluntary reporting of educational activities began in 2005 with mandatory reporting of required educational activities in 2006. Certificants are encouraged to review the updated guidelines for the continuing education policy at www.nmtcb.org. There is reciprocity between ARRT and NMTCB of continuing education credits. But this year, ARRT has changed its policy and mandated stricter verification of attendance at meetings offering continuing education credit. This change takes effect January 1, 2006. Each attendee must verify attendance at the start of the educational session and at the end of the session. The SNMTS finds the ARRT verification requirement impractical and costly at meetings with large attendance such as the educational sessions at the SNM annual meeting. The SNMTS will present their concerns to the ARRT.
The ARRT also tightened requirements for programs to qualify for continuing education credits (i.e., VOICE). The SNM office now needs a minimum of 4 weeks to process program applications for VOICE credit.
The NMTCB Ethics/Disciplinary policy became effective January 1, 2005. Certified Technologists are encouraged to review the policy on the NMTCB web site (http://www.nmtcb.org).
The NMTCB has 17,974 active certified technologists with 327 having passed the Cardiology specialty exam and 114 passing the PET certification exam. There are 233 technologists registered to take the next NCT exam, 193 to take the PET exam [7 are RT(R)], and 4 to take the PET+NCT exam.
CARE Act
The CARE Act has been reintroduced into the House this session and the RadCARE Act in the Senate. The SNMTS will call for its membership to send letters of support to their representatives in Washington, DC.
Professional Development Task Force
The SNMTS is struggling to meet the requirements of a large and growing organization with regard to future leadership. A strategy has been prepared to create a larger leadership pool. The Professional Development Strategy has three steps:
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Identify and recruit new leadership candidates.
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Train new candidates through a Leadership Curriculum.
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Ongoing evaluation and support of leadership competencies.
Current SNMTS leaders were asked to identify a member with the potential to become a future leader and to agree to mentor the candidate. The mentors will report on their candidate’s progress through Steps 1 and 2 of the Strategy to the SNMTS leadership at the 2006 MidWinter Meeting.
Education and Research Foundation
In 2005, the ERF provided $99,750 in grants and awards that benefited 130 nuclear medicine and nuclear medicine technologist students, trainees and professionals in the form of scholarship assistance, fellowship opportunities, research grant support and recognition awards. From October 1, 2004 through May 25, 2005, 269 SNM members contributed $27,284 to the general fund of the ERF and 229 members contributed $4,208 to the Paul Cole Scholarship Fund. A three-year fundraiser, “Shaping the Future”, will be launched later this year. The goal of the plan is to raise $500,000 by the end of year three to award to the nuclear medicine community.
The recent issue of the SNM Development Office publication, Contributor, recognized the $2000 contribution from the Central Chapter Technologist Section to the Paul Cole Scholarship Fund. The contribution will establish two additional scholarships for students in programs in the Central Chapter. It is hoped that the Central Chapter’s lead in establishing scholarships will encourage other Chapters to make contributions to the ERF.
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Past, Present and future leadership of the Central Chapter Tech Section network at the annual meeting. Left to right: Lyn Mehlberg, Past President, CCSNMTS, and SNMTS, Kathy Carlson, Immediate Past President, CCSNMTS, Rebecca Sajdak, President, CCSNMTS, Sharon Lafferty, Past President, CCSNMTS, Jim Kritzman, President-Elect, CCSNMTS, Karen Martin, Past President, CCSNMTS |
Election Results
The SNMTS Nominating Committee announced the election results as follows:
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President-Elect: D. Scott Holbrook
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Secretary: April Mann
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Finance Committee: David Gilmore
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SNM House of Delegates: Kathy Thomas, Danny Basso, Cindi Luckett-Gilbert and Mary Moreau
The SNMTS awarded Danny Basso and D. Scott Holbrook the distinction of Fellow of the SNMTS for their service on the Chapter and National levels of the SNMTS. They may now use the initials FSNMTS after their names.
Congratulations go to Karen Martin, past president of the Central Chapter Tech Section, on her election by the NCR as a member-at-large on the SNMTS Executive Board.
CCSNM Fall Education Program Scheduled for Traverse City, Mich.
Following
the great success of the CCSNM’s re-instituted Fall Educational
Program October 1-2, 2005 in Minneapolis, after five years hiatus,
the Chapter is scheduling the 2006 Fall Educational Program in
October, 2006 in Traverse City, Michigan The program, tentatively
titled Functional nuclear imaging: Changing patient management
is being organized by Rick V. Hay, MD and Karen Martin, CNMT.
Watch your mail, email and the CCSNM web site for further information.
The preliminary program is noted below.
Saturday
- 7:30 am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
- 8:00 am: Functional Brain Imaging
- 9:00 am: To SPECT or not to SPECT
- 10:00 am: Patient Preparation for Non-cardiac Procedures
- 11:00 am: Multimodality Imaging and Fusion Techniques
- 12:00 noon: Lunch on your own
- 1:00 pm: Exam Selection and Sequencing for Effective Diagnosis and Cost Effectiveness.
- 2:00 pm: Radioimmunotherapy—First Line Treatment for NHL
- 3:00 pm: Seraspheres
Sunday (Emphasis on cardiology)
- 8:00 am: Expanded utilization of cardiac imaging for patient management
- 9:00 am: Instrumentation.
- 10:00 am: Radiation Safety
- 11:00 am: New Pharmacologic Stress Agents. What is Best for Your Patient?
Notes from the Tech Section
Rebecca
Sajdak, BA, CNMT, RT(N)
2005-06 Technologist Section President
The Central Chapter held its first fall meeting in 5 years in beautiful Minnesota exploding with the colors of fall foliage, attracting technologists, physicians, and students with the interesting topic of Fusing Form and Function. The seminar was a comprehensive program taking a look at the fundamentals of fusing images. Speakers covered step by step instruction of how to read multiple modalities under one umbrella.
Nuclear Medicine is experiencing great growth and influence from
other technologies such as Cyberknife stereotactic radiosurgery
and new radiation therapy techniques such as IMRT which use fusion
to plan a more precise treatment for the patient.
Fusion has a tremendous impact on patient planning and clinical
interpretation. One of the most stimulating points made at this
meeting was that all modalities should compliment each other and
not compete with one another in order to give the patient optimal
care. As the demand on the technologist grows, there is little
time for extra curriculum.
Technologists Tips: Proper Injection Techniques
By Rebecca Sajdak, BA, CNMT, RT(N)
When
administering any radioisotope, regardless of the route of administration,
the technologist must do the following:
Do’s
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Confirm Patient’s identity by two methods: A) Name-have patient clearly state full name and spelling. B) Birth date verbally stated by the patient. Inpatients, use identification bracelet and chart to identify correct patient and test
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Confirm pregnancy status on females under the age of 55.
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Confirm correct study, correct isotope & correct amount of isotope
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Explain procedure to patient and answer questions prior to injection
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Always use aseptic technique to draw dose and ensure fresh needle is in place for injecting into patient.
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Place the extremity in a dependent position (lower than the patient’s heart because gravity slows venous return and distends the veins).
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If injecting into an existing line, aseptically swab the port and then flush With normal saline to ensure patency
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When preparing isotope to inject, ensure that the preparation is in accordance with the package insert instructions
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When performing a tagged red blood cell study, ensure the blood is placed in a heparinized vacutainer and inverted several times to insure homogeneity. Use largest gauge needle possible to re-inject the tagged RBC’s
- Record the dosage, time, route of injection, and any additional relevant information (i.e., chance of infiltrate, etc.) & signature. Infiltration of PET doses of F-18 FDG will invalidate SUV data for that patient.
Don’ts
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Do not recap needle. If completely necessary to recap, use the one hand method or needle cap holder
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Never push air out of syringe once dose is drawn.
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Do not inject without correct syringe shield for isotope
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Don’t assume anything. Only inject with syringe that is labeled with name, study, isotope, date & time
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When patient has had mastectomy, never inject in arm coinciding with surgically removed breast; never inject in arm with fistula present
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Never inject stannous pyrophosphate (Cold PYP) through any plastic tubing or existing port (i.e., butterfly, IV line, fistula, PIC line, heparin lock etc.) Do not inject pertechnetate in same site as PYP
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Once a dose has been drawn, never return to a container. This practice avoids product contamination as well as misadministrations.
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Do not draw back blood into syringes containing Tc99m MAA. This can cause clotting of the dose and an altered biodistribution resulting in difficulty interpreting the scan. If dose is contaminated with blood, discard the dose and draw a fresh one.
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Do not dispose of any radioactive waste (i.e., bandage, gauze) in regular trash
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A needle is designed for single use, good for one venipuncture only, whether it’s the vial or a patient
RULE OF THUMB: When in doubt, Throw it out!!!
Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Paul V. Harper, MD Died During the Summer
1915 - 2005
Paul
V. Harper, MD, 89, a pioneer in nuclear medicine, died of pneumonia
and complications from diabetes Friday, July 15, in the Palliative
CareCenter and Hospice of the North Shore in Evanston.
Dr. Harper was born in Chicago and grew up in Libertyville. Though his grandfather was William Rainey Harper, University of Chicago.'s first president, Dr. Harper attended Harvard University, where he majored in biochemical sciences and studied under Dr. George Wald, who won a Nobel Prize in 1967.
Dr. Harper graduated from Harvard with honors in 1939, the same year he married the former Phyllis Sweetser. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1941, and moved with his wife to Hyde Park, where he began a surgical residency at the University of Chicago.
The residency was interrupted by a three-year tour of duty in the Army that took him to France in 1944 and 1945. Dr. Harper returned to the university, where he became an assistant professor of surgery in 1953, an associate professor in 1955 and a professor in 1960. He moved his family to Glencoe, but continued spending most of the week in Hyde Park, said his son William.
As a professor in the surgery and radiology departments at the university's medical school for more than 40 years, Dr. Harper pioneered diagnostic and therapeutic uses of radiation that made him a veritable scientific celebrity in the 1960s. His breakthroughs, such as the discovery of iodine-125 in 1961, routinely made news.
The university wholeheartedly supported his work, leading Dr. Harper to decline every offer he had from other schools, even when the offer came with a raise, Dr. Harper's son said.
He was "incredibly dedicated to his work," his son said, but he allowed himself hobbies, including judo, playing the oboe, skiing and rock climbing.
Dr. Harper retired in 1986, becoming a professor emeritus, but he continued researching until last year.
He is also survived by two daughters, Stephanie and Cynthia; another son, David; a sister, Jane Overton; and two grandchildren.
This obituary originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune.
William H. Beierwaltes, M.D, Chapter Award Honoree Passes
William H. Beierwaltes, MD, a true pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine, died in August at the age of 88. He attended the first training course for physicians on the medical use of radioactive iodine, held at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1946, soon after radioactive elements first became available for civilian medical use.
He founded one of the nation's first hospital programs for the use of radioactivity in medicine. At the University of Michigan, he opened a clinic for patients with hyperthyroid disease and thyroid cancer, using radioactive iodine to detect abnormal activity in the thyroid gland and locate tumors. He later pioneered the combined use of radioiodine and surgery for therapy of benign and malignant disease of the thyroid. He was also instrumental in developing several nuclear medicine agents still in use today.
Dr. Beierwaltes is credited with the original idea to label MIBG (meta-iodo benzylguanidine) with I-131 (and later I-123) and was the co-holder of a patent on MIBG, now widely used for identifying and treating pheochromocytomas and neuroblastomas. I-123 MIBG has more recently been extensively utilized in the evaluation of cardiac innervation. In keeping with his endocrinology training, he also fostered development of I131-iodonorcholesterol, useful in the diagnosis of adreno-cortical tumors, such as aldosteronomas and cortisol-producing adenomas.
He was responsible for promoting the profession of Nuclear Medicine. In 1957 he wrote Clinical Use of Radioisotopes, the first textbook to fill a gap in the novel field the clinical applications of radionuclides. He was instrumental in creating one of the first nuclear medicine fellowship programs in the nation at the University of Michigan. Beierwaltes is also known as one of the first physicians to propose radionuclide-labelling of antibodies, a concept that has led to its widespread use in both imaging and treatment.
An internationally renowned scholar, Beierwaltes wrote or co-authored during the course of his prolific career 257 peer-reviewed papers, 61 other academic papers, four books, and 77 book chapters and gave hundreds of presentations at medical society meetings and other talks.
Born in Saginaw, MI, Dr. Beierwaltes received his bachelor's degree in 1938 and his medical degree in 1941 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he later trained as an endocrinologist. He soon developed an interest in the new field of nuclear medicine, after joining the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1945. He was appointed to lead the university's new Clinical Radioisotope Service in 1952, and then later became chief of the newly created Division of Nuclear Medicine in the early 1960s.
He was the recipient of numerous awards during his long career,
among which were the Society of Nuclear Medicine George de Hevesy
Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Award in 1982 and the American Medical
Association's Scientific Achievement Award in 1994.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Sciences and the American College of Physicians, served as
president of the Society for Nuclear Medicine in 1965 and was
a longtime member, and was a founding member and distinguished
fellow of the American College of Nuclear Medicine. He was also
a member of the American Association of Physicians.
Throughout his career, Beierwaltes promoted both the scientific and public knowledge of the profession of nuclear medicine in its multiple facets, contributing historical milestones in research and development of radiopharmaceuticals, fostering the professional development of generations of physicians and technologist, and setting high standards of professional and technical achievement through wide dissemination of clinical knowledge and the unrelenting work in professional organizations, some of which he helped create. Dr. Beierwaltes helped mold the field of Nuclear Medicine as we all know it today. In His honor, the Central Chapter instituted several years ago the W. H. Beierwaltes Award for oral presentations by residents or basic scientists at the Annual Meeting.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mary-Martha, and by children Andrew, William Howard and Martha.
To him goes, our perennial gratitude and admiration.
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