Brant County Medical Association

27th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Great Lakes Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Thursday, October 16th, 2008 - Saturday, October 18th, 2008 The Niagara Falls Conference Center Niagara Falls, New York USA

The program is expect to appeal to a wide range of heath-care providers, including nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, cardiologists, neurologists and oncologists as well as nuclear medicine technologists, pharmacists, and hospital administrators.

Course Director Edward M Bednarczyk, PharmD

Program Committee Edward M Bednarczyk, PharmD Paula Hartig Elpida Crawford Fred Covelli Jayakumari Gona, MD Rebecca Goodman Dominick Lamonica, MD Hani Nabi, MD, PhD William Wentling

Faculty Robert Dansereau Dominique Delbeke, MD, PhD, FACNP Brad Hellwig Dominick Lamonica, MD Edward Lobarainas, PhD Chester Mathis, PhD Shaker A Mousa, PhD, MBA, FACC, FACB Hani A Nabi, MD, PhD Neil A Petry, RPh, MS, BCNP, FAPhA Xiankai Sun, PhD Jack Ziffer, MD

Scientific Poster Session Friday, October 17, 2008

Thursday, October 16, 2008 Niagara Falls Conference Center

1800 – 2100 Registration, Exhibitor set-up, EGL Executive Committee Meeting

Friday, October 17, 2008 The Niagara Falls Conference Center

Time Topic Speaker Moderator

0730 - 0820 Registration, continental breakfast, poster set-up 0820 – 0830 Welcome & Opening Remarks Edward M Bednarczyk, PharmD

0830 - 0915 Prostate Carcinoma Imaging Michael Manyak, MD using SPECT/CT

0915 - 1000 Oncology SPECT/CT Jack Ziffer, MD

1000 – 1030 BREAK

1030 - 1115 Role of FDG PET/CT in Dominick Lamonica, MD Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma

1115 - 1200 124I Imaging of Thyroid Hani Nabi, MD, PhD Carcinoma

1200 – 1315 LUNCH – Niagara Falls Conference Center 1245 – 1315 Dessert & Chapter Business Meeting

1315 - 1400 Cardiac SPECT/CT Jack Ziffer

1400 - 1445 Myocardial Imaging and the William Boden COURAGE Trial

1445 – 1515 BREAK

1515 - 1630 Dual Imaging Modalities in Xiankai Sun, PhD Prostate Cancer

1630 - 1715 An Update on the State of Chet Matthis, PhD Emerging Radiopharmaceuticals for Dementia Imaging

1730 – 1830 Wine & Cheese Reception, Poster Viewing, Sponsor area

Saturday, October 18, 2008 – The Niagara Falls Conference Center

COMBINED SESSIONS

0700 - 0815 Registration, Continental Breakfast, poster viewing, Sponsor area

0800 0815 Welcome and Announcements Edward M Bednarczyk, PharmD

0815 – 0845 Society Update Dominique Delbeke, MD, PhD

1115 – 1200 USP <797> Neil A Petry, RPh, MS, BCNP, FAPhA

1200 - 1215 Meeting wrap-up Edward M Bednarczyk, PharmD

PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST SESSION

0845 – 0930 Dual Imaging Modalities Xiankai Sun, PhD 0930 - 1015 MicroPET insights into Tinnitus Edward Lobarainas, PhD

1015 – 1030 BREAK

1030 – 1115 Frontiers in Molecular imaging Shaker A Mousa, PhD, MBA, FACC, FACB

TECHNOLOGIST BREAKOUT The Niagara Falls Conference Center

0845 - 0930 Changes impacting the practice Elpida Crawford and education of NMT

0930 - 1015 State Licensure of NMT’s Robert Dansereau

1015 – 1030 BREAK

1030 – 1115 SPECT/CT Instrumentation Brad Hellwig Registration Due September 30, 2008

Physician/Scientist Technologist or Student Resident Full $200 $120 $35 1 day $125 $80 $20 AFTER SEPTEMBER 30 , 2008 Physician/Scientist Technologist or Student Resident Full $250 $150 $50 1 day $150 $100 $40

Hotel Information

Hotel accommodations are not included in the registration fee. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Registrants need to contact the hotel directly at 716-285-3361 or 800-2CROWNE.

Room Rates Single/Double $139.00 US/night

Please note: the cut off date to receive the conference rate for the Eastern Great Lakes Chapter Group block is September 15, 2008. Reservation requests made after this date will be subject to the availability and prevailing rate of the Crowne Plaza Hotel

Joint/Co-sponsorship application for AME and ACPE credit pending

Application for N hours of VOICE credits has been requested

Revised 26 August 2008, 15:35