The 2nd Working Group Meeting


The 2nd Working Group Meeting of ARCCNM will be held in Manila, Philippine from 6 to 8 September 2002. At this meeting, the details for the preparation of the next Annual General Meeting of ARCCNM, to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 6 to 8 February 2003, and the establishment of Asian School of Nuclear Medicine(ASNM) will be discussed.

 

8 Working Group Members and 2 Task-Force Members will attend this meeting and will also participate in the international symposium to be held in conjunction with the Philippine Society Meeting of Nuclear Medicine. The scientific program of the international symposium and preliminary agenda of the working group meeting are as follows:


Philippine Society of Nuclear Medicine

National Symposium on Radionuclide Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
supported by the Asian Regional Cooperative Council for Nuclear Medicine
and the International Atomic Energy Agency
September 6, 2002

Philippine Heart Center

13:00 - 13:30

Registration

13:30 - 13:45

Opening ceremonies
Welcome remarks Orestes P. Monzon, MD
Head, Division of Nuclear Medicine
Ludgerio D. Torres, MD
Director, Philippine Heart Center
Alumanda M. Dela Rosa, PhD
Director, Philippine Nuclear Research Institute
Myung Chul Lee, MD
Chairman, ARCCNM

13:45 - 14:30

Current management of hepatocellular carcinoma(J. Raoul)

14:30 - 15:15

Dosimetry and radiation safety procedures for
radionuclide therapy of liver cancer using Re-188
(E. Valdezco)

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:30

Experience with I-131 Lipiodol for HCC (J. Raoul)

16:30 - 17:15

Korean experience in liver cancer radionuclide therapy
(J.D.Lee)

17:15 - 18:00

Emerging trends in radionuclide therapy - Advances in
radionuclides and carrier molecules (M. Venkatesh)

19:00 - 21:00

Philippine Society of Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Dinner

Philippine Society of Nuclear Medicine
Second National Symposium on Radioiodine Therapy for Thyroid Diseases
supported by the Asian Regional Cooperative Council for Nuclear Medicine
and the International Atomic Energy Agency
September 7, 2002
Manila Midtown Hotel

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
SESSION I - Moderators - E. Laureta, O. Monzon
09:00 - 09:40 Dose calculation schemes for RAI therapy of Graves'
hyperthyroidism (J. Obaldo)
09:40 - 10:20 Experience in treatment of hyperthyroidism with I-131:
Diagnosis, patient preparation and therapeutic procedure
(Z. Pan)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20 Radioiodine therapy and ophthalmopathy in Graves'
disease (Z. Pan)
11:20 - 12:00 Management of hypothyroidism after radioiodine
treatmentof hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer
(E. Barrenechea)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
SESSION II - Moderators - C. Obmerga, R. Ogbac
13:30 - 14:10 Post Surgical Management Protocol for Thyroid
Carcinoma (M. Hasan)
14:10 - 14:50 Radionuclide therapy for thyroid cancer with nervous
system metastasis (S.M. Lim)
14:50 - 15:10 Radioactive iodine therapy in pediatrics (Z.Pan)
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Panel Discussion - "The Changing Role of Medical
Imaging in the Management of Differentiated Thyroid
Carcinoma"
  - Whole body I-131 scan and Tc-99m thyroid scan(V. Lele)
  - PET and alternative agents for whole body scintigraphy
     (M.C.Lee)
  - Non-nuclear imaging modalities (E. Rondain)
18:00 - Dinner for Foreign Guests and PSNM Board



AGENDA
The 2nd Working Group Meeting of ARCCNM
September 8, 2002

1. Opening remark

2. Report of the Chairman
    a. Third Executive Board Meeting of ARCCNM in Dalian, May 31, 2002
    b. First Annual General Meeting in Dalian, June 1, 2002
    c. Asian School of Nuclear Medicine

3. Publishing papers from abstracts presented in the Annual
    General Meeting

    World journal of Nuclear Medicine or Asian J of Nuclear medicine

4. The Second Annual General Meeting in Dakar, February 6 -8,
     2003

    a. policy for choosing attendants and supporting
    b. time table of call for abstract, evaluation, preregistration

5. Asian School of Nuclear Medicine
    a. suggestion from Bankok
    b. IAEA and Dr. Padhy's opinion
    c. proposal from Korea to IAEA for Asian School of nuclear Medicine
    d. regional Training Centers of Asian School of Nuclear Medicine at
        Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, Mumbai etc.

6. Task Force Group for 2006 World Congress of Nuclear
    Medicine and Biology

    Asian Group for global harmonization
      - improving heterogeneity regulation of radioisotope utilization
        training
      - Asian School of Nuclear Medicine reimbursement from medical
        insurance supports from IAEA and developed countries

7. Others
    Newsletters
    World Congress of Nuclear Medicine in Chile, October 2002
    AOFNMB meeting in 2004, Beijing