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MEDAMI 2026 Valencia

from Friday, May 15, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Sunday, May 17, 2026 (6:00 PM)
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        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 15, 2026
May 16, 2026
May 17, 2026
AM
8:30 AM
Situation of Nuclear Medicine in Low- and Medium-Income Countries - Francesco Giammarile (until 9:30 AM)
8:30 AM Scaling Prostate Cancer Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Role of PSMA PET in the Era of Rising Incidence - Massimo Valerio  
8:50 AM Starting off Theranostics in small hospitals in developing countries - Bob Omondi  
9:10 AM Establishment of Local Production of 18F-Florbetapir for Cost-Effective Amyloid PET Imaging of Alzheimer’s Disease at Siriraj Hospital, Thailand - Tossaporn Siriprapa  
9:30 AM
Session 4: Nuclear Medicine Deployment in LMICs: Enabling Technologies - Antonio Gonzalez (until 10:40 AM)
9:30 AM Enabling Neuroimaging in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Development of a Compact, High-Performance DOI and TOF-Enabled Brain PET System - Qiyu Peng  
9:48 AM Toward More Accessible Brain PET: Initial Human FDG Imaging with the SmartBrain Wearable Dedicated PET - Qiyu Peng (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)  
10:06 AM Towards Equitable Cardiovascular Care: A High-Performance, Cost-Effective Cardiac-Dedicated TOF-PET System for Resource-Limited Settings - Qiyu Peng  
10:23 AM Potential Applications of Total-Body PET in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Qiyu Peng  
10:40 AM
Coffee Break (until 11:10 AM)
11:10 AM
Nuclear Medicine Deployment in LMICs: Enabling Technologies - Roger lecomte (until 12:30 PM)
11:10 AM Low-Cost BGO PET System with DOI Measurement for Small-Animal Imaging - Mr Xin Yu (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)  
11:30 AM Jagiellonian PET: Democratizing access to positron emission tomography with low-cost, modular, lightweight, and portable PET scanners based on plastic scintillators - Prof. Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)  
11:50 AM Design of Walk-Through PET-CT aiming for minimal motion and high throughput - Stefaan Vandenberghe  
12:10 PM Multiplexed SiPM Readout and Real-Time FPGA Processing for Pixelated BGO PET Detectors - Prof. Nicola Belcari (Department of Physics, University of Pisa)  
8:30 AM
Nuclear Medicine Deployment in LMICs: Enabling Technologies - Marta Freire (until 9:30 AM)
8:30 AM Compton cameras for medical imaging - Gabriela Llosá (IFIC, CSIC-UV)  
8:50 AM From ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET to ⁹⁹ᵐTc-PSMA SPECT: Learning Cross-Modality Harmonization for Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine. - Alejandro López Montes  
9:10 AM Lithium Neutron Cancer Therapy: A Paradigm Shift Beyond Boron-Based Therapy - Gil Gonçalves  
9:30 AM
Deployment of Nuclear Medicine in LMICs: Pitfalls & Opportunities - Willy Vangu (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Scaling Up Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in LMICs: IAEA Initiatives in Infrastructure, Training, and Sustainability - francesco Giammarile  
9:50 AM Enabling Global Access: Lessons in Universal Innovation and Deployment of X-ray in LMICs. - Dr Solomzi Makohliso (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)  
10:10 AM Expansion of Nuclear Medicine in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges - Salah Eddine Bouyoucef (Emeritus Professor Nuclear Medicine Faculty of Medicine/University Hospital Bab El Oued Algiers Algeria)  
10:30 AM
Coffee Break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Deployment of Nuclear Medicine in LMICs: Pitfalls & Opportunities - Salah Bouyoucef (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Nuclear Medicine in Côte d’Ivoire : operational status, strategic challenges, and perspectives of the Abidjan Nuclear Medicine Institute (IMENA) - Dr Nathalie KOUASSI-ABOUKOUA (Abidjan Institute of Nuclear Medicine (IMENA)) Prof. Annick Kouamé-Koutouan (Abidjan Institute of Nuclear Medicine (IMENA))  
11:20 AM Bridging the Gap: Building Sustainable Nuclear Medicine Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Dr Subhash Kheruka (Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Centre, UMC, Muscat, Oman)  
11:40 AM Nuclear Medicine in South Africa: Equity and Sustainability in an LMIC Context - Willy Vangu (CM Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand)  
PM
2:00 PM
Welcome - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (CERN) John Olivier Prior (until 2:20 PM)
2:00 PM Welcome to MEDAMI: Medical context & Practical information - John Prior & Paul Lecoq  
2:10 PM Official welcome from the Director Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency - Ms Abdel Wahab May  
2:15 PM Official welcome from the Director “People: Health and Society”, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission - Ms Pilar Aguar Fernandez  
2:20 PM
Session 1: Invited talks - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (CERN) (until 3:20 PM)
2:20 PM The WHA78.13 Resolution on strengthening medical imaging capacity: what it means for nuclear medicine globally - Prof. John O. Prior (Lausanne University Hospital)  
2:40 PM Nuclear medicine is a priority medical device required to strengthen medical imaging capacity. - Mrs Adriana VELAZQUEZ BERUMEN (Medical Devices expert)  
3:00 PM The role of the IAEA in supporting the implementation of the WHA78.13 Resolution: from policy to practical capacity building in medical imaging and nuclear medicine - Francesco Giammarile  
3:20 PM
Coffee Break (until 3:50 PM)
3:50 PM
Situation of Nuclear Medicine in Low- and Medium-Income Countries - John Olivier Prior (until 6:10 PM)
3:50 PM Assessment of Nuclear Medicine Infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Report of a IAEA Expert Mission - Renaud Guignard  
4:03 PM Development and implementation of nuclear medicine services at the university clinics of Kinshasa (2020–2025) - Renaud Guignard  
4:16 PM The current status and perspective of nuclear medicine in Burkina Faso in 2026: Challenges in technology deployment and sustainability. - Dr Renaud Guignard (Service de médecine nucléaire Montpellier)  
4:30 PM Bridging the Gap: The SFMN Francophonie Working Group’s Educational Initiative for Nuclear Medicine in LMICs - Renaud Guignard  
4:50 PM Bridging the Gap: Bringing Nuclear Oncology to the Heart of Central Africa A Cyclotron for Kinshasa — Opportunities and Challenges - Prof. Dr. Ken Kudura  
5:10 PM Dynamic Status of Nuclear Medicine in Africa - Salah Eddine Bouyoucef (Emeritus Professor Nuclear Medicine Faculty of Medicine/University Hospital Bab El Oued Algiers Algeria)  
5:30 PM Ten years of experience in developing medical imaging solutions for low-resource settings - Mr Merence Sibomana (MDS-Imaging srl)  
5:50 PM AI Inclusion in Nuclear Medicine to Strengthen Imaging Capacity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Kuangyu Shi (University of Bern)  
12:30 PM
Lunch Break (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Session 6: Deployment of Nuclear Medicine in LMICs: Enabling Technologies - Andrea Gonzalez Montoro (until 3:40 PM)
2:00 PM The 10 ps TOFPET challenge: A way to the deployment of PET imaging to LMICs - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq  
2:20 PM POSICS: A Handheld Gamma Camera for Real-Time Intraoperative Imaging and Augmented Reality Surgical Guidance - Domenico Della Volpe (Universitè de Genève)  
2:40 PM Versatile and Mobile DOI-TOF PET and SPECT for Diagnostic and Research Imaging - Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin)  
3:00 PM What PET Scanner Developers Should Do - and Can Do - to Promote Wider Adoption of PET - Dr Taiga Yamaya (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST))  
3:20 PM Sponsor Keynote: United Imaging: Engineered for Access: How Modular Design and Workflow Efficiency supports sustainable PET/CT implementation in LMICs - Stewart Young  
3:40 PM
Coffee Break (until 4:10 PM)
4:10 PM
Session 7: Deployment of Nuclear Medicine in LMICs: Enabling Technologies - Marco Paganoni TBD (until 6:10 PM)
4:10 PM Affordable crystals for PET technology - Rosana Martinez Turtos (Aarhus University)  
4:30 PM Emerging Scintillator Technologies Toward Cost-Effective TOF PET - Dr Sun Il Kwon (University of California, Davis)  
4:50 PM QATrack+: Enabling low-cost quality assurance for nuclear medicine in resource-constrained settings - Dr Matthew Strugari (Grupo de Investigación Biomédica de Imagen (GIBI230), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe (IIS La Fe), Avenida Fernando Abril Martorell, 46026, Valencia, Spain)  
5:10 PM High Performance, Cost-Effective Large Axial Field of View TOF-PET System Design - Joshua Cates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
5:30 PM High-Performance Modular TOF-PET Imager as an Enabling Technology for Affordable Nuclear Medicine in LMICs - Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
5:50 PM Democratizing Early Cancer Diagnosis in LMICs through a High-Efficiency, Low-Cost Enabling Technology: 3D-CBS Based on 3D-Flow - Dario Crosetto (Crosetto Foundation for the Reduction of Cancer Deaths)  
12:00 PM
Session 11: General Discussion and Conclusions - John Olivier Prior (until 1:00 PM)