Dr Benoy Daniel
Senior Medical Assessor, Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency [MHRA], London
About this event
- Date and time Mon 22 Mar 2021 from 9:30am to 23 Mar 2021 at 5:00pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Radiology
Join this webinar that seeks to cover a broad range of topics in PET CT but with the single focus and aim of improving the care of people who require PET CT scanning. On its 23rd year, this event remains the only annual meeting in the UK focused on improving patient care in a clinical environment.
Hear from a faculty of international experts in the field about their clinical experiences and challenges as well as share your own experiences in a supportive friendly environment.
Day 1
Join us for an up to date overview of the current clinical applications and the emerging role of PET CT. A particular highlight of this year's meeting is a lecture on the new generation of fast PET CT scanners that is anticipated to revolutionise the use of inpatient care.
A CPD certificate with 7 CPD credit will be issued to those joining the webinar live as well as those who watch the recording afterwards. Certificates will be issued 7 days after the webinar to those who watch it live and after 30 days for those that watch the recording.
Day 2
Take a look into the future of PET CT, and embark on a journey from research to clinical usage. You will witness the steps taken to ultimately contribute to improving the care of people who require PET CT scanning.
A CPD certificate with 6 CPD credit will be issued to those joining the webinar live as well as those who watch the recording afterwards. Certificates will be issued 7 days after the webinar to those who watch it live and after 30 days for those that watch the recording.
25% discount available for delegates attending both days. This discount will be applied automatically at checkout.
Attendees will be able to:
- Learn the current best practice with regard to the clinical use of PET CT scanning
- Recognise the pitfalls that can occur on PET CT scans in people with complex clinical problems and modern cancer treatments
- Know some of the more unusual technical artefacts that can occur with PET CT scanning
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the role of PET CT in non-cancerous diseases
- Identify the most recent advances in PET CT that can have an impact on clinical care
- Appreciate the processes and challenges of introducing new PET CT tracers in the NHS
This webinar will be of interest to radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, clinical oncologists, oncological surgeons, healthcare managers, commissioners of healthcare, PET CT physicists.
Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted.
This webinar is available for on-demand viewing. The webinar recording will be available for registered delegates up to 30 days after the live webinar broadcast via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.
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We would like to thank our sponsors Alliance Medical Imaging, Blue Earth Diagnostics, GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthcare Ltd for their support of this webinar. Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.
Key speakers
Professor Ramsey Badawi
Department of Radiology, University College Davis, Chief of Nuclear Medicine, UC-Davis, California
Speaker's biography
Professor Ramsey Badawi has caused a sensation amongst the diagnostic imaging community with his invention of PET scanner, which simultaneously PET images all the organs and tissues in the body within 1 minute.
Agenda
View the programme - Day 1
PET-CT and new technologies: to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed
Chair: Dr Bal Sanghera, Clinical Scientist and inaugural CSO KTP
Artefacts in PET-CT: A Physicist’s perspective
Dr Bal Sanghera
Artefacts in PET-CT: A Radiologist’s perspective
Dr Rohit Kochhar, Consultant Radiologist, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Senior Lecturer [honorary] University of Manchester
New algorithms: Added value and pitfalls
Dr Bal Sanghera
Panel discussion
Comfort break
Prostate cancer PET-CT
Professor Rodney Hicks
Beyond bone scanning: The emerging role of molecular imaging in prostate cancer
Professor Rodney Hicks
F-PSMA: Pitfalls and artefacts
Dr Asim Afaq
Fluciclovine imaging
Professor Andy Scarsbrook, Consultant Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Professor of Radiology, University of Leeds, UK
From PET-CT to therapy
Dr Paolo Castellucci, Consultant Physician, S.Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Bologna
Panel discussion
Lunch break and Sponsored Industry Presentation from Alliance Medical
Covid19 vaccination & 18FDG-PETCT: Things to know or consider given by Peter Strouhal, Medical Director – UK, Alliance Medical
Advances on therapy and new roles for PET-CT
Chair: Professor Gary Cook, Professor of PET Imaging, King's College London
RECIST v1.1 Pearls and Pitfalls
Dr Amish Lakhani, Consultant Radiologist Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Consultant Radiologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College, London
PET-CT appearance of Immunotherapy treatment
Professor Gary Cook
PET-CT and breast cancer
Professor Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei, Nuclear Medicine Physician, Leiden, University Medical Center Leiden, The Netherlands
PET for therapeutic response assessment: Beyond harmony, we need to be singing the same song
Professor Rodney Hicks, Professor of Medicine and Radiology, University of Melbourne, Director of the Centre for Cancer Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne
Panel discussion
The informed reporter
Chair: George Petrides, Newcastle
PET-CT and vasculitis
Professor Roland Hustinx, Service de Médecine Nucléaire et d'Imagerie Oncologique, Département de Physique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Université de Liège, Liège
PET-CT: applications in people with rheumatological disorders
Professor Roland Hustinx
Infection: Difficult cases and how I reported them
Professor Iain Lyburn, Consultant Radiologist, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Panel discussion
Comfort break
Horizon scanning
Chair: Dr Wai Lup Wong, Consultant Radiologist in Nuclear Medicine East and North Herts NHS Trust, Northwood Senior Lecturer [hon] University College London, Clinical Guardian PET-CT NHS England, National Speciality Advisor [PET-CT] NHS England
EXPLORER: first clinical implementation of Total Body PET
Professor Ramsey Badawi, Department of Radiology, University College Davis, Chief of Nuclear Medicine, UC-Davis, California
Total-Body PET: what might the future hold?
Professor Ramsey Badawi
Panel discussion
Concluding remarks
View the programme - Day 2
Gallium-68 PET-CT
Chair: Professor Val Lewington, Professor of Clinical Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine, Programme Director, MSc/PG Dip in Nuclear Medicine, King's College London
Gallium-peptide PET-CT: Impact on decision making in people with Neuro-endocrine tumours
Dr Amy Eccles, Consultant Radiologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Gallium-68 PSMA PET-CT: Its pros and its cons
Dr Tara Barwick, Consultant in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
NET imaging: a perspective from Singapore
Dr Sean X. Yan, Senior Consultant, Singapore General Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Clinical Associate Professor, DUKE-NUS Medical School, President, Nuclear Medicine Society Singapore
Panel discussion
Comfort break
PET-CT: Implementation of change at scale and pace
Chair: Dr Mark Lambert, Consultant in Specialised Services Public Health (North East and Cumbria) England
The journey from Research to Clinical usage within the NHS: an industry perspective
Ted Broadbent, Head of Commercial Operations, Blue Earth Diagnostics, Oxford
MHRA: the licensing process
Dr Benoy Daniel, Senior Medical Assessor, Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency [MHRA], London
Panel discussion
Dr Wai Lup Wong, Consultant Radiologist in Nuclear Medicine East and North Herts NHS Trust Northwood Senior Lecturer [hon] University College London, Clinical Guardian PET-CT NHS England, National Speciality Advisor [PET-CT] NHS England
Lunch break and Sponsored Industry Presentation from Alliance Medical
Covid19 vaccination & 18FDG-PETCT: Things to know or consider given by Peter Strouhal, Medical Director – UK, Alliance Medical
International collaboration and driving this forward to optimise service
Chair: Professor Jamshed Bomanji, Head of Clinical Department, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Exploring international variation in PET-CT service provision: An International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) study
Charlotte Lynch, Research Officer International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership, Cancer Research UK
Exploring intra-jurisdictional variation in PET-CT utilization: Ontario’s approach to understanding drivers for patterns of care
Deanna Langer, Manager, Cancer Imaging Program Clinical Programs and Quality Initiatives Cancer Care Ontario
COVID in South Africa
Professor Mike Sathekge, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital
Panel discussion
Comfort break
Frequently Asked Questions [FAQs]
Mr Richard Graham, Deputy Medical Director and Consultant Radiologist, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Do we really need PET-CT in the Imaging of Gliomas?
Professor Susan Short, Professor of Clinical Oncology and Neuro-oncology University of Leeds
Do we really need Choline PET-CT for parathyroid adenomas?
Dr George Petrides, Newcastle
Incidental PET-CT findings in people with lung cancer: which do you need to report?
Dr Jeanette Dickson, Clinical Oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood, President Royal College of Radiologists UK
Panel discussion
PET CT pathways and reporting
Chair: George Petrides Newcastle
PET CT reports: are we being understood?
Dr Thomas Wagner, Consultant Physician, Royal Free hospital, London
Learning, interesting, challenging cases with PET-CT
Professor Sabina Dizdarevic, Principal Lead Consultant in Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Imaging & Nuclear Medicine Department, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Honorary Clinical Professor University of Sussex and Brighton, Brighton
PET-CT with IV contrast: how we do it
Professor Iain Lyburn, Cheltenham
Panel discussion
Concluding remarks
Sponsors
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM nor the speaker's organisations.
Special rates for difficult times
The RSM wishes to offer healthcare professionals continued learning opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. The RSM’s weekly COVID-19 Series webinars remain free of charge, while there will be small charges to register for other online education. These fees will enable the RSM to continue its programme of activities and will apply during the course of the pandemic.
