59th Annual Meeting, Astor Crown Plaza, New Orleans, LA / March 7-9, 2014

59th Annual Meeting, Astor Crown Plaza, New Orleans, LA / March 7-9, 2014

By selecting the below, hyperlinked presentation titles, you will be able to access most of our 59th Annual Meeting speaker presentations as screen-resolution PDF files. These are full-page slides which provide excellent readability. The average file size is about 3MB, but a few are 9MB or larger.

Some presenters preferred to not make their presentations available through the website, and a few preferred to make only the slides they made available for the program book.

How a New Medical Model Will Change the Physician’s Traditional Role, John McCracken, PhD

The Use of Systemic I-131 MIBG for Treatment of Advanced Malignant Pheochromocytoma / Paraganglioma in Adults, Richard Campeau, MD

Is Appropriateness a Component of Quality: Implications for Nuclear Medicine, Peeyush Bhargava, MD

Strategies to Enhance Effectiveness in Nuclear Medicine Research, Nancy Wintering, CCRP

Molecular Imaging: Novel PET Probes, New Opportunities, New Challenges, Pradeep Garg, PhD

Fusion Imaging: SPECT/CT, PET/CT and PET/MR, Aaron Jessop, MD

Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid PET: Appropriate and Inappropriate Use, Kevin Donohoe, MD

Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid PET: Appropriate and Inappropriate Use (Part 2)Gary Dillehay, MD

Brain Imaging and SNMMI Update, Gary Dillehay, MD
(Select "Brain Imaging" for that portion of the talk and "SNMMI Update" for that portion)

Impact of PET on the Management of Patients with Cancer:  What We Have Learned from NOPR? Barry Siegel, MD

Advances in Pediatric Nuclear Medicine, Martin Charron, MD

Nuclear Cardiology: Radiopharmaceuticals, Ancillary Medications and Regulatory Considerations, Mark Soffing, PharmD

Imaging Prostate Cancer: Novel Nuclear Medicine Approaches, Andrei Iagaru, MD

What’s New and on the Horizon in Radiopharmaceuticals, Nicki Hilliard, PharmD

Unusual Radiation Safety Issues in Nuclear Medicine, Steven Lokitz, PhD

PET Imaging of Angiogenesis, Andrei Iagaru, MD

Principles and Considerations for Exercise Testing, April Mann, CNMT

The Utility of Advanced Imaging Modalities in Gynecologic Malignancy, Katherine Moxley, MD

Cardiac PET and Quantification of Absolute Myocardial Flow, Robert Bober, MD

History of the Southwestern Chapter, SNMMI, Vernon Ficken, PhD

Current Status and Future of the Southwestern Chapter, SNMMI, Amol Takalkar, MD