International Conference on Hybrid Imaging (IPET 2024) - Programme - Day 1

Monday, 7 October 2024

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

Note: This page will be updated as more information about the sessions is added.

08:00 – 10:00 | Registration

10:00 – 11:05 | Opening Session

10:00 – 11:05 | Opening Panel

11:05 – 11:30 | Coffee break and Exhibition Visit

11:30 – 12:45 | Session 1: Keynote Lectures

12:45 – 13:45 | Working lunch: Technological Advances in Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

13:45 – 15:00 | Session 2: Patient Advocacy, Ethics, Education and Leadership

15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break and Exhibition Visit/Presentation

15:30 – 17:00 | Session 3: Colorectal Cancer

17:00 – 17:30 | Session 4: Poster Review 1/4

17:00 – 17:30 | Coordinated Research Projects (POCA/PROCA) Session 1

17:45 – 20:00 | Welcome Reception

Opening Session

10:00 – 10:17

Welcome by Najat Mokhtar, Deputy Director General, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA

Opening Address by Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, IAEA

The Importance of Upscaling Access to Medical Imaging and Its Inclusion in Health Technology Assessment and Governmental Plans by HE Vlastimil Válek, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, Czech Republic

Opening Panel

10:17 – 11:05

Panel Discussion: Advancing Medical Imaging: Innovations, Challenges, and Collaborations, moderated by May Abdel-Wahab, Director of the Division of Human Health, IAEA

Panellists:

• HE Mr Vlastimil Válek, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, Czech Republic
• Najat Mokhtar, Deputy Director General, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA
• Andrew Scott, Director of the Department of Molecular Imaging and Therapy, Austin Health, Australia
• Antonis Kalemis, Head of Collaborations & Physics, Molecular Imaging, EMEA, Siemens Healthineers
• Akram Al-Ibraheem, Chairman of the Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Department, King Hussein Cancer Center, Jordan
• Boris Brkljacic, Chair of Radiology at University Hospital Dubrava in Zagreb, Croatia
• Roland Rott, President & CEO Imaging, GE HealthCare
• Gisela Estrada, President of ALASBIMN, Mexico
• Josh Mailman, President of the Northern California CarciNET Community, USA
• Lizette Louw, President WFNMB, South Africa
• Mike Sathekge, Head of the Nuclear Medicine Department, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, South Africa
• Sze Ting Lee, Nuclear Medicine Physician at Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia
• Qun Chen, President, United Imaging Healthcare, Europe

Session 1: Keynote Lectures

11:30 – 12:50

IAEA Coordinator: Diana Paez, IAEA
Chairperson: Homer Macapinlac, IAEA

11:30 – 11:45 | Theranostics for Improving Lives - Rays of Hope Shining a Light in The World of Healthcare
Andrew Scott, Australian And New Zealand Society Of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM)

11:45 – 12:00 | Future of Theranostics
Egesta Lopci, Italy

12:00 – 12:15 | Advancing Frontiers in Hybrid Imaging for Precision Medicine
Andrei Iagaru, Stanford Healthcare (SHC)

12:15 – 12:45 | Abstract Highlights
Stefano Fanti, Italy

12:45 – 12:50 | Administrative Remarks 
Diana Paez, Scientific Secretary and Head of the Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section, IAEA

Session 2: Patient Advocacy, Ethics, Education and Leadership

13:45 – 15:00

IAEA Coordinator: Anita Brink, IAEA
Chairperson: Satoshi Minoshima, USA

13:45 – 13:00 | Patient Advocacy
Josh Mailman, International Centers for Precision Oncology Foundation (ICPO)

14:00 – 14:15 | Leadership in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology
Jolanta Kunikowska, Poland

14:15 – 14:30 | Education and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of NM Specialists
Andrew Scott, Australian And New Zealand Society Of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM)

14:30 – 14:45 | Education and CPD of Radiologists
Maija Radzina, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

14:45 – 15:00 | Education of Radiographers
Jenny Sim, Australia

Session 3: Colorectal Cancer

15:30 – 17:00

IAEA Coordinator: Olivier Pellet, IAEA
Chairperson: Stefano Fanti, Italy

15:30 – 15:50 | Evaluation of Diagnosis, Staging and Follow-up
Andrea Laghi, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

15:50 – 16:10 | Role of PET/CT
Sona Balogova, European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)

16:10 – 16:25 | Interactive Case Discussion – Radiology
Andrea Laghi and Maija Radzina, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

16:25 – 16:40 | Interactive Case Discussion – PET/CT
Rakesh Kumar, India

16:40 – 17:00 | Question and Answer
Panellists: Andrea Laghi, Sona Balogova, Maija Radzina, Rakesh Kumar

Session 4: Poster Review 1/4

17:00 – 17:30

Chairperson: Miriam Mikhail Lette, IAEA

Panellists: Willy Mboyo-di-Tamba Vangu, Egesta Lopci, Ivan Blažeković, Edel Noriega, Miriam Mikhail-Lette, Anita Brink, Jin Su Kim, Pavlo Korol, Fuad Novruzov

Coordinated Research Projects (POCA/PROCA) Session 1

17:00 – 17:30

Note: Session reserved for POCA/PROCA investigators.