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MINUTES
OF
The
2nd Organizing Committee Meeting of the
ARCCNM
VENUE
: Holiday Inn Lahore, Pakistan
DATE
: 11th April, 2004. 9:00 A.M.
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Members
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Korea
June-Key
Chung, M.D. (Chairman)
Sang-Moo
Lim, M.D. (Secretary General)
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Bangladesh
Faridul
Alam, M.D.
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Pakistan
Muhammad
Numair Younis, M.D.
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China
Zuo-Xiang
He, M.D.
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Philippines
Jose
Eduardo Rondain, M.D.
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Vietnam
Mai
Trong Khoa, M.D.
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Observers
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Dr.
Myung-Chul Lee (Korea), Dr.
Felix X. Sundram (Singapore)
Dr.
Saeeda Asghar, Mrs. Areescha
Zaman, Mr. Khalid Masood, Dr.
Hameed Naseer, Mr. Zaheer, and
Mr. Qazi Asghar (all are from
Pakistan).
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1.
Opening remarks
Dr.
Chung Jun-Key (Chairman) officially called
the meeting to order. In his opening remarks,
he congratulated Dr. Saeeda Asghar, Dr.
Younis and others for successfully organizing
the “Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Conference”.
He conveyed his appreciation to ARCCNM members
for the informative lectures and for their
contributions. He placed the agenda before
the committee members for their recommendations.
The committee members recommended the agenda
without any amendment. He requested Dr.
Sang Moo Lim (Secretary General) to present
the report of 1st OCM.
2.
1st OCM report : Dr. Lim
presented a brief report of the 1st OCM.
3.
Strategy for the Promotion of Nuclear medicine
in Developing Countries
Dr.
Alam from Bangladesh gave a presentation
on ‘Strategies for the Promotion of Nuclear
medicine in Developing Countries’. In his
view, the general socio-economic conditions,
mass education, government commitment, health
policies, strong lobby groups and health
professional out look are the related factors
in the promotion of health sciences in a
country. He pointed out that developing
countries lack in many necessary factors
such as, government commitment, appropriate
plans, poor scientific background, etc.
and it is more essential to overcome these
problems for the promotion of nuclear medicine.
He emphasized that various bodies, associations
and groups should play vital roles for the
promotion of nuclear medicine in their country.
He believes that the national Society of
Nuclear Medicine should play an important
role in promoting the nuclear medicine in
their country as they know what is nuclear
medicine, what they can do for the society
and can persuade other bodies and groups
by organizing seminars, symposiums, training
programmes etc. He appreciated the support
of IAEA in promoting nuclear medicine activities
by giving projects, fellowships and helping
to organize seminars, symposiums, etc. He
also stressed that international organizations
like WFNMB, AOFNMB and ARCCNM can contribute
to improve the quality of nuclear medicine
in developing countries.
The
talk was opened for discussion.
• Dr.
Lee asked for any specific idea or suggestions
to ARCCNM, WFNMB and AOFNMB.
• Dr.
Alam answered that these societies can help
in organizing seminars, symposiums and can
provide financial assistance as fellowships
and to attend international seminars.
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Dr. Asghar appreciated IAEA for their kind
cooperation and support.
• Dr.
Lee intervened and said, “IAEA is an important
body but we cannot solely depend on IAEA
as even it doesn’t have enough funds and
projects.”
Dr.
He from China spoke on ‘Current Status
of Nuclear Medicine in China’. He presented
the facts and figures of nuclear medical
centers and PET/CT scanners in China. He
pointed out that limited funds and resources,
heterogeneity of nuclear medicine services,
high cost and advanced technology, and competition
from other modalities such as, MRI, CT and
ultra sound are the main challenges for
popularizing nuclear medicine in China.
He said that dissemination of nuclear medicine
information to public, education of referring
physicians, organization of national and
regional level symposiums, cooperation with
commercial companies and good relationship
with the government for licenses are the
prominent strategies to promote nuclear
medicine in his country.
Dr.
Younis from Pakistan gave a lecture on ‘Strategy
for the Promotion of Nuclear medicine in
Developing Countries’. He described issues
and factors related to nuclear medicine,
and role of ARCCNM in promoting nuclear
medicine in developing countries. He proposed
that management and sharing of resources
such as, manpower, academic programmes,
equipments and radiopharmaceuticals, scientific
activities and coordination with other organizations
are the strategies for the dissemination
of nuclear medicine in developing countries.
He emphasized that implementation of these
strategies is a task for ARCCNM.
Dr.
Rondain gave a talk on ‘Strategy for the
Promotion of Nuclear medicine in Developing
Countries’. In his view, strategies
like education, partnership with others
such as exchange programmes, inter-hospital
exchange of doctors, etc. publication of
news letters or gazettes and sharing marketing
strategies would help in dissemination of
nuclear medical activities in developing
countries. He also discussed issues and
obstacles for the promotion of nuclear medicine
in developing countries.
Dr.
Khoa from Vietnam gave a presentation on
‘Promotion of Nuclear Medicine Technology
in Vietnam’. He mainly focused on the current
problems for the promotion of Nuclear Medicine
in Vietnam as they do not have adequate
facilities like equipments, trained manpower,
locally produced radiopharmaceuticals and
moreover, there aren’t any university courses,
training and national examination for nuclear
medicine technologists. However, he revealed
the future plan to install new cyclotrons,
SPECTS, gamma counters and PET units across
the country. He believes that, strategies
such as education and training, local source
of radipharmaceuticals and collaboration
of hospitals with foreign companies to install
expensive equipments would somehow solve
these problems.
The
talk was opened for discussion.
• Dr.
Alam asked the opinion regarding accreditation
for the performance of society like seminars,lectures
etc..
• Dr.
Sundram replied that it is difficult as
they are already giving CME points.
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Dr. Chung intervened and said ARCCNM
can provide one or two lectures and a small
financial assistance.
• Dr.
Lee commented that communication to the
local society members is a problem. He emphasized
that communication is very important to
convey the information of the activities.
He requested all societies to provide their
database containing e-mail address, telephone
numbers or fax to the ARCCNM office so that
they can directly communicate to members.
He also revealed that when he became the
president of the WFNMB, he set up a global
network. (The delegates agreed to provide
the database.)
• Dr.
Lim, Dr. Sundram and Dr. Younis had a consensus
on giving CME points.
• Dr.
Younis wanted to know whether the funding
problem for the activity of ASNM was resolved.
• Dr.
Sundram replied that more funds are needed
to run ASNM and he usually asks for donations.
• Dr.
Lee intervened and said that when he meets
top business leaders in business meetings,
they promise to support. He said it is not
difficult to get funds. In this regard,
he promised to help if the societies come
up with the complete planning of their activities.
• Dr.
Lee commented that he would be happy if
the delegates would work to popularize PET
technology in developing countries.
4.
8th Congress of the AOFNMB
• Dr.
He gave brief information about 8th congress
of the AOFNMB. He asked the delegates to
collect the information sheets from Dr.
Chung. He informed that so far they had
received 266 abstracts and most of them
were from China. He also revealed that 24
abstracts were received for young investigator
award, 26 for popular poster and 39 for
ARCCNM respectively. He commented that even
if the participants are provided with financial
assistance, only 39 abstracts were received
for ARCCNM.
• Dr.
Younis commented that the March deadline
was too early to submit the abstracts and
now since the deadline was extended more
abstracts would be expected from Pakistan
also.
• Dr.
He said that immediately after the 8th congress,
there would be a 5 days training course
on ” Nuclear Oncology and Cardiology”.
He revealed that the training programmes
will be sponsored by ASNM, ARCCNM, CSNM
and the hosting institution. He also clarified
that the organizers would bear the expenses
of the participants.
• Dr.
Sundram commented that it would be difficult
to stay away for two weeks for participants
as well as delegates.
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Dr. Lee suggested that instead of having
many lectures, it is better to have 3 to
4 lectures on education programmes. (All
delegates welcomed the suggestion.)
• Dr.
Younis commented that 3 to 4 teaching sessions
would definitely help the participants from
the developing countries.
• Dr.
He agreed to arrange some teaching sessions
from local speakers.
• Dr.
Chung suggested that it would be more effective
if the participants are divided into small
groups for the teaching session.
• Dr.
Chung announced that the ARCCNM Delegate
Assembly will be held at Beijing on 10th
October 2004
5.
WFNMB Introduction : Myung-Chul
Lee, M.D., President, WFNMB
Dr.
Lee gave a presentation on ‘Strategic Action
for the Promotion of Nuclear Medicine in
Developing Countries’. He spoke on NM activities
in the developing countries, strategic directions,
activities of Korean Society and programmes
and activities of WFNMB. He emphasized that
NM needs more money and activities compared
to other disciplines. He insisted on more
cooperation and collaboration in government,
local, national and international levels
for the promotion of nuclear medicine. He
expressed his concerns about the decrease
in number of Nuclear Medicine institutes
in developing countries. He said that, IAEA’s
statutory functions, National Society of
Nuclear Medicine and government are the
responsible bodies for the promotion of
nuclear medicine in a country. In his view,
strong leadership, role of national society
of NM, collection of database, cooperation
and collaboration, etc. are essential to
promote nuclear medicine in developing countries.
He
gave a brief description about the structure
and programmes of Korean society, as it
could be a role model for the other developing
countries. He also explained about current
activities and programmes of WFNMB. According
to him, a strong co-operation from IAEA
is necessary for the promotion of nuclear
medicine.
He
announced that the 9th congress of WFNMB
will be held at Seoul in 2006 and requested
the delegates to collect the information
from the website. He announced some special
considerations for young researchers from
developing countries to participate in the
9th Congress. Finally, he urged the delegates
for their cooperation and to arrive at a
consensus to revamp the structure of WFNMB.
6.
Others
• Dr.
Lee suggested to organize the next General
Meeting of the ARCCNM in South East Asia.
• Dr.
Asghar thanked ARCCNM for the interesting
lectures. He especially thanked DR. Lee,
Dr. Chung and others for their kind cooperation.
• Mrs.
Areeza Zaman requested Dr. Asghar to present
the mementos and certificates to the delegates
as a token of appreciation and respect.
Dr. Asghar presented the mementos and certificates.
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