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The 1st Executive Board Meeting
February 9-11, 2001 Hong Kong, China
Executive Meeting
Minutes
(First session: Friday February
9th: 4PM.)
Attendants: Dr. Chung ; Dr. Karim;
Dr. Lee ; Dr. Liu ; Dr. Masjhur ; Dr. Sundram ,
Dr. Suzuki ; Dr. Tong .
Dr. Tong made a Welcome speech on behalf of the Hong Kong Society
of Nuclear Medicine.
Dr. Marchio From Cis Bio/Schering after being invited by Chairman
Dr. Lee; confirmed the commitment by his company to sponsor the
ARCCNM annual executive meeting until 2006.
Dr. Sundram acting as reporter; the meeting proceeded
according to the preliminary agenda prepared by Dr. Lee, Chairman.
At the unanimous proposal of members; Dr. Lee was confirmed as chairman
for 2 years; Dr. Sundram was confirmed as reporter for the same
period
At the motion of Chairman; it was unanimously agreed
that there should be an annual meeting of the council.
As CJK Conference will be held every 2 years; it was decided that
ARCCNM annual meeting would be held in conjunction with the CJK
Conference.
As for other years; Chairman proposed to have ARCCNM annual meeting
held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Japanese Society
of Nuclear Medicine and we need negotiation with Prof. Konishi and
members of Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine.
As for the executive committee; it was decided that
it should be held in a developing country; if possible on the occasion
of an annual meeting of National Society of Nuclear Medicine to
allow participants to make contributions.
It was decided that the name of the organization
would remain ARCCNM (Asian Regional Cooperation Council for Nuclear
Medicine). And the main objectives of this organization will be
Regional cooperation to promote nuclear medicine in Asian area,
particularly in developing and undeveloped countries.
Dr. Masjuhr commented on the risk of fragmentation
of existing organisations that should not be increased by the creation
of ARCCNM, All members agreed that ARCCNM should try to promote
nuclear medicine in Asian area and should be synergic to the activity
of AOFNMB or IAEA etc, not competitive.
Dr. Karim; proposed that in future; delegates to the ARCCNM should
be appointed by the respective national societies and not co-opted
as present.
This was unanimously approved.
It was decided that the present executive committee
would be maintained for 2001 and 2002.
The creation of 3 chapters was decided:
1.South East Asia Chapter:
Myanmar; Thailand; Cambodia; Vietnam; Malaysia;
Singapore; Indonesia; Philippines; Brunei. Laos
2.South Asia Chapter;
Maldives; Pakistan; India; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh , Nepal,
Butan.
3.Far East Asia: Chapter
China; Macao; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Korea; Japan, Mongolia.,
North Korea
One Vice Chairman was appointed for each chapter:
Dr. Masjhur for South East Asia; Dr. Karim for South Asia; Dr. Suzuki
for Far East Asia.
Dr. Sundram was appointed as a person in charge
of drafting the bylaws of the organization.
As the next CJK meeting will be held in CHINA (SHENIANG)
in May 2002; it was decided that the first ARCCNM scientific meeting
would be held in conjunction with.
(Second Session:
Saturday February 10th, 10:00AM -12:00 PM)
Discussion started on Composition of Working Groups.
It was decided that Vice Chairman could choose each working group
member from different countries.
The members of Working Group for future practical
action was organized as follows:
South Asia Chapter: Dr. Mizanul Hasan (Bangladesh),
Dr. Vikram Lele (India)
South East Asia Chapter: Dr. Obealdo (Philippines),
Dr. Subowo Sumewo (Indonesia) Dr. Anchali Krisnachinda (Thailand)
Far East Asia Chapter: Dr. Jia-He Tian (China), Dr.
Kenichi Nakajima (Japan)
Dr. Byung-Tae Kim (Korea)
Chairman then moved to the issue of Web site and
newsletter. It was agreed that while a web site was very important;
a newsletter was also indispensable as there was not yet widespread
access to Internet in developing countries.
At the suggestion of Dr. Liu and Dr. Masjuhr; it was decided that
Chairman would take care of this in cooperation with the Japanese
Society of Nuclear Medicine.
It was requested by Chairman to each chapter to provide addresses
of members for diffusion.These addresses will be made public only
after consent of the member.
Each Vice Chairman will decide the number of copies of newsletter
necessary to be printed for each chapter.
Chairman then moved to the issue of relation of
ARCCNM with established organizations; such as national atomic energy
commissions; REA; RERF, JRIA, NIRS; IAEA.
Everybody agreed that relation with these organizations were very
important.
It was decided that Chairman would be in charge of initiating contacts.
The agenda then moved to the issue of Scheduling future meetings
of ARCCNM.
While 2002 Meeting was decided in conjunction with CJK Conference;
in Sheniang China; no decision could be made as for 2003 and 2004.
Chairman proposal to hold the 2003 meeting in conjunction with the
annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine could
not be approved because the location not being known yet; it is
not yet possible to seek approval of the organization committee.
As for 2004; Dr. Sundram proposed to hold the meeting together with
the AOFNMB in China.
Dr. Liu proposed that 2003 meeting should be held in Korea.
Considering practical condition it was decided that location of
meetings after executive committee members would choose 2002 at
a later date.
Chairman then proposed to study the launching of volunteers group
made of Physicians from developed countries.
This idea was accepted.
The discussion then moved to the issue of regional training courses:
It was reminded to all that IAEA has 12 courses running already.
Dr. Sundram suggested that ARCCNM should no be involved.
Dr. Karim suggested bilateral actions instead.
These comments were unanimously agreed.
On the establishment of a Journal; the discussion was heated.
As AOFNMB will have its own journal soon; Chairman mentioned that
it is up to Dr. Liu to take care of that issue in order to avoid
conflicts.
Everybody agreed on the fact that no new publication was necessary
and that ARCCNM should use an existing journal. Dr. Lee proposed
to use Annals of NM and Radiation Medicine if possible by expanding
the editorial board. We need to talk about this issue with Editor-in-Chief
in Japan.
This proposal was agreed.
(Third Session:
Saturday February 10th; 1:00 PM -3:00 PM )
The first issue to be discussed was Exchange programs.
Chairman mentioned existing programs in Japan and Korea for one
year Scholarships. While in Japan there are public funds; In Korea
Dr. Chung mentioned that funding is private.
Dr. Karim mentioned that a problem remaining is for shorter visits,
which should be made easier, and to extend training to technologists
if possible.
Chairman proposed to exchange information on existing programs as
a first step
Chairman came back to an agenda item, which was
treated during the morning session:
Task groups:
As already agreed in Istanbul; it was confirmed that 6 or 6 task
groups should be created.
Dr. Lee requested further member proposal from countries that did
not propose candidates earlier.
The role of these task groups is to organize scientific activities
in the field.
It was agreed that Coordinator of Task Groups should be active and
politically connected.
The following coordinators were proposed:
NEUROLOGY: Dr. YONEKURA; Japan
CARDIOLOGY: Dr. HE; China and Dr. CHUA; Singapore.
ONCOLOGY: Dr. TONG; Hong Kong.
RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY: Dr. LIM; Korea
GENERAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE: Dr. KRISHNAN; India
BASIC SCIENCE: Dr. NAKAMURA ; Japan
Pursuing afternoon session agenda; Chairman opened
discussion on Joint research projects and grants.
Everybody agreed that, as this is a long way to go; it should be
first and further discussed by e-mail before coming to be discussed
by executive committee.
Agenda moved then to the key issue of Funding for
ARCCNM.
While Schering provides funding for executive meeting; Funding for
other activities and annual meeting is still unclear.
Chairman mentioned that he can obtain Korean Government funds (MOST)
and asked members for suggestions.
Dr. Sundram suggested getting in touch with charitable foundations
such as the Asian foundation or the bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
Chairman mentioned that he would get in touch with various developed
countries organizations for support.
Dr. Tong and Dr. Masjhur suggested that for managing fund; Treasurer
position should be created.
By unanimous decision; Dr. Chung was designated as Treasurer in
addition to being a Secretary General.
All members suggested Chairman to lobby international companies
for financial support.
Chairman agreed and asked members for support when they meet companies¡¯
representative.
Chairman then moved to the issue of Nuclear Medicine
Board examination and certification and the Asian School of Nuclear
Medicine by explaining the example of EANM.
Everybody agreed on the interest of having Asian curriculum and
certification but that more information on each country system is
necessary. And they agreed that this issue should be handled primarily
by the AOFNMB.
Chairman suggested having a survey on equipments,
man power, reagents used and general department data.
To be valuable; It was agreed that format should be uniform.
Dr. Tong suggested this to be made by a Task Group.
After debate; Dr. TONG was unanimously appointed to prepare a report,
as soon as possible, on: Past; Present and Future of Nuclear Medicine
in Members countries.
Before closing the meeting; the issues of clinical
trials protocols unification and lobbying for easy registration
of registration by local health authorities were raised as important
and to be discussed in future meetings.
Dr. Lee was given authority to organize another
executive meeting or Working Group Meeting this autumn to discuss
pending matters and detailed practical issues for future prompt
activity and members agreed also to informally meet in Toronto during
SNM meeting if possible, where Dr. Lee, Dr. Sundram, Dr. Karim,
Dr. Suzuki and Dr. Tong supposed to be appeared..
The meeting was then closed.
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