2011 Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging News

Dr. Judy Nguyen, Nuclear Medicine resident, received the Norman D Poe Memorial Scholarship Award for MD In-Training at the Western Regional SNM 36th Annual Meeting held in Seattle for the research project "Clinical Utility of 18F FDG PET/CT and 99mTc MDP Bone Scintigraphy in Patients with Ewing's Sarcoma and Other Sarcomas" 
October 31, 2011

Congratulations, Dr. Nguyen!


Dr. Andrei Iagaru appointed as New Program Director for the Nuclear Medicine Residency Program, effective August 1, 2011

Congratulations, Dr. Iagaru!


New Nuclear Medicine Textbook released by Dr. Michael Goris
July 27, 2011

This book reviews the principal applications of nuclear medicine, specifically from the viewpoint of the mathematical and physical analysis that support the interpretation. In contradistinction to other approaches, the mathematics does not precede the applications in introductory chapters, but is presented in the application chapters with various degrees of granularity.


Dr. Guido Davidzon Received 2011 Nuclear Oncology Young Investigator Award

June 11, 2011

Dr. Guido Davidzon's abstract "Comparison of four different imaging response criteria in patients with Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma using PET/CT" received third place in the 2011 Nuclear Oncology Young Investigator Award Symposium competition.

Congratulations, Dr. Davidzon!


Dr. Andrei Iagaru Received 2011 Nuclear Oncology Young Investigator Award

June 11, 2011

Dr. Andrei Iagaru's abstract "Combined 18F Fluoride and 18F FDG PET/CT Scan for Evaluation of Malignancy: Initial Results of the International Multi-Center Trial", an international collaboration between Stanford and University Hospital (Aalborg, Denmark), Coimbra University Hospital (Coimbra, Portugal) and Pretoria University Hospital (Pretoria, South Africa) received second place in the 2011 Nuclear Oncology Young Investigator Award Symposium competition.

Congratulations, Dr. Iagaru!


SNM 2011 Image of the Year

June 10, 2011 

18F-NaF PET/CT evaluation of cervical spine fixation hardware

Andrew Quon, MD, assistant professor of radiology and chief of clinical PET/CT for theMolecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), and lead author of the study, "F18 NaF PET/CT of Cervical Spine Fixation Hardware," has received the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) 2011 Image of the Year Award. His image was selected from more than 1,800 studies presented at the 58th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Quon's 2011 Image of the Year came from a collaboration between Stanford and Dr. Clarice Sprinz at Hospital Mãe de Deus, Porto Alegre, Brazil and illustrates the ability of positron emission tomography/computer tomography (PET/CT) scans to "identify abnormal bone reaction in patients who have received spinal fixation hardware implants" (from the June 6, 2011 SNM press release: "SNM 2011 Image of the Year: F-18-NaF PET/CT Evaluation of Cervical Spine Fixation Hardware").

To read more, please access the following articles: "SNM's Image of the Year Highlights Non-Oncology Utility" and "SNM's Image of the Year: PET/CT of Cervical Spine Hardware."

Congratulations, Dr. Quon!

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Dr. Sam Gambhir Awarded SNM's 2011 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
June 9, 2011

Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir has been awarded the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2011 recipient of the Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his contributions to the nuclear medicine profession.

"'Dr. Gambhir has made extraordinary contributions to the field of molecular imaging,' said Dominique Delbeke, MD, PhD, 2010–11 president of SNM. 'He is leading the way in shaping the future of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.'"

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

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Dr. Andrei Iagaru Received the Best Presentation by a Young Professional at the 1st Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine
March 1, 2011

Dr. Andrei Iagaru received the Best Presentation by a Young Professional at the 1st Sino-American Conference on Nuclear Medicine for his talk "Combined F18 NaF and F18 FDG: Beyond the Results of the Pilot Study"

Congratulations, Dr. Iagaru!


Dr. Andrei Iagaru Received Best Essay Award at the 2011 Mid-Winter SNM/ACNM Annual Meeting

January 24, 2011 

Dr. Andrei Iagaru received the Best Essay Award at the 2011 Mid-Winter SNM/ACNM Annual Meeting for the abstract "Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma in First Complete Remission: Is There a Role for 18F FDG PET/CT Surveillance"

Congratulations, Dr. Iagaru!


 

Stanford Research Featured in Aunt Minnie and SNM Smart Brief

January 21, 2011

Aunt Minnie and SNM Smart Brief featured the work on "Prospective Comparison of Combined 18F FDG and 18F NaF vs. Conventional 18F FDG PET/CT Imaging for Detection of Malignancy," a collaboration between Apollo Gleneagles PET/CT Centre located in Hyderabad and Stanford Hospital.

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