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Minutes of the Organizing Committee MEDAMI 2024 Meeting
Date: Friday, June 14, 2024, 17:00-18:00 CEST
Place: Online
Present: John Prior, Harry Tsoumpas, Paul Lecoq, Peter Križan, Roger Lecomte, Stan Majewski, Nicola Belcari, Rok Pestotnik
Website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1290221/
Nicola Belcari’s Report:
- Workshop Conclusion: The MEDAMI 2024 workshop was successful.
- Final Budget: This will be available in a few days.
- Participation: 40 participants, 6 student grants awarded, and fees waived for some medical doctors.
- Speaker Coverage: Attendance costs for Ora Israel and Gudje are fully covered.
- Feedback: Positive feedback was received from a mixed audience of medical doctors and technical experts.
- Challenges: Increasing doctor involvement beyond giving talks remains difficult. Weekend scheduling was beneficial.
Key Points Discussed at the IAC meeting:
- Audience Involvement: How to increase participation and involvement of medical doctors.
- Session Content: Broad spectrum of medical topics with a balance between SPECT and PET talks.
- Learnings from Medical Doctors: Need for more radiotracers; existing technology devices are sufficient.
- PET Imaging: Limited to FDG radiotracer from a clinical perspective.
- Interdisciplinary Communication: We must establish a common language between medical doctors and technologists.
- Preference for SPECT: Due to its use with more tracers.
- Gut-Brain Connection: Emphasized by Paul Lecoq, requires a long axial field of view scanners.
- AI Limitations: AI not an answer to everything; recent studies showed AI increases false positive lesions.
Positive Feedback:
- Interaction with attendees was valuable.
Organization Notes:
- Attempt to organize two conferences sequentially.
- Proposal for a single communication channel for several conferences.
Possible Future Conference Topics:
Paul suggested in 2026 to address the issue of global dissemination of nuclear medicine.
Stan's suggestion for the title: "The strategy to lower global barriers to dissemination of nuclear medicine imaging using frugal innovation in development of new imaging apparatus and in radiopharmaceutical production and distribution".
Topics:
- Strategies for addressing the healthcare gap (2/3 population without access to technology).
- Cost of infrastructure and personnel training.
- Time of Flight information and its potential for a radiotracer production network.
- New cyclotron technologies and making radioisotopes accessible in low-income countries.
- Positive economic effects of medical imaging, especially in low-income countries (1 to 150 USD ratio).
WHO Resolution on the Access of low-income countries to medical imaging:
- Expected next year, focusing on spreading essential medical imaging and equipment.
- Emphasis on accessible technologies like Ultrasound, SPECT, and PET.
- Need for support from WHO Executive Board members (list available here). Your help would be appreciated.
- Resolution feedback is expected in three years.
Additional Suggestions:
- Authors to provide access to their presentations on the MEDAMI website for conference attendees.
- Publication of conference materials in a Frontiers journal: History of MEDAMI, book of abstracts, editorial statements by John Prior & Olivier, contributed talks, and a three-page medical summary.
Report from SNMI Conference:
- Ora Israel received a lifetime award and attended MEDAMI.
Meeting Adjourned at 18:00 CEST.
The next meeting in the fall of 2024 will be held together with the foreseen organisers from Valencia
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