E.S.N.M.S

ESNMS SECOND ANNUAL MEETING

16 –18 February, 2001

Luxor, Egypt

The Egyptian Society of Nuclear Medicine Specialists(ESNMS)announces with great pleasure and pride the success of its Second Annual Meeting that was held in Luxor ( the Land of civilization ) from 16 to 18 February, 2001.

The meeting consisted of 7 sessions dealing with the following subjects:

Friday 16/2/2001

Session I:

FDG - PET in Oncology – Established Indications.
Prof. Dr. P. Lind (Austria).

Evaluating Treatment Response in Oncology.
            Prof. Dr. H. Abdel-Dayem (U.S.A)
         Tumour Detection by SPET and Image Analysis.
            Prof. Dr. K. Britton (U.K).
         Lymphoscintigraphy in Oncology
            Prof. Dr. C. A. Hoefnagel (Netherlands).

Session II:

             The Potential Clinical Role for Perfusion Brain SPECT in the
             management of patients with Intractable Seizures.
                Prof. Dr. B. Van Heerden (South Africa)
             SPECT Imaging of the Dopaminergic System in Parkinsonism
                Prof. Dr. Ana M. Catafau (Spain).

Session III:

Coincidence Imaging.
Prof. Dr. H. Abdel-Dayem (U.S.A)

Uncommon Technical Developments.
Prof. Dr. A. H. Elgazzar (Kuwait).

Selection of Gamma Camera.
Prof. Dr. G. Ziada (Egypt).

Saturday 17/2/2001

Session IV:

Echocardiography in Cardiac Evaluation.
Prof. Dr. W. El-Arousi (Egypt).

Diagnostic Aspects of Cardiac Catheterization.
                Prof. Dr. M. El-Gindy (Egypt).
         Clinical Value of Gated SPECT for Combined Evaluation of
         Myocardial Perfusion and Left Ventricular Function.

Prof. Dr. R. Giubbini (Italy).

Session V:

Radioiodine Therapy in Thyroid Cancer Including The Use of Recombinant TSH.
Prof. Dr. P. Lind (Austria).

Therapy in Children with Neuroblastoma
Prof. Dr. C. A. Hoefnagel (Netherlands).

Palliation of Bone Pain with Radionuclides.
Prof. Dr. P. J. Panholzer (Austria).

Radiosynovectomy. Nuclear Medicine Contribution to Chronic Inflammatory Joint Disease.
Prof. Dr. P. J. Panholzer (Austria).

Sunday 18/2/2001

Session VI:

Uroradiology between the Present and the Past
               Prof. Dr. Ahmad Samy (Egypt).
         Ultrasonography in Renal Evaluation
              Prof. Dr. N. El Garem (Egypt)
        Nuclear Medicine Techniques in Renal Evaluation.
             Prof. Dr. K. Britton (U.K).

Session VII:

Basic Principles and Uses of Pediatric Nuclear Medicine.

Prof. Dr. A.H. Elgazzar (Kuwait).

Children are Different: Diuretic Renography for Dilated Upper Tracts. DMSA for Urinary Tract Infection. Milk Scans.

Prof. Dr. M. Mann (South Africa).

Following the state of the art lectures, a selected group of scientific
research work dealing with the same topic were presented.

As regards attendance, there were 116 delegates from all over the world distributed as follows:

Africa 92

           Egyptian                        90

          Non Egyptian                2

Asia                                                             6

Europe                                                        16

North America                                            2

There is no doubt that ESNMS Second Annual Meeting was successful. The best indications for this success are the enthusiastic reception of the attending nuclear medicine specialists as well as the nice letters of praise received from a great number of our guests after their return home.
         A sample of these remarks includes:

“I think the congress is one of the best of the smaller congresses I have attended. There was a good balance between invited talks and research presentations”.
    Prof. Michael Mann (South Africa)

“An excellent Meeting. The topics were very interesting. I also enjoyed the fruitful discussions”.
    Dr. Peter Panholzer (Austria)

“The program was well planned. The participants were enthusiastic”.
     Prof. Hussein Abdel-Dayem (USA)

“I was really impressed for the very high level of the meeting, both for the contents of the presentations and the quality of the discussion”.
     Dott. Raffaelle Giubbini (Italy)

   “I strongly encourage you to continue organizing such events”.
    Dr. Ana Catafau (Spain)

“I was impressed with the way the meeting was organized. The topics were relevant and speakers excellent.”
     Prof. Dr. Ben Van Heerden (South Africa)

   Let me take this opportunity to thank everyone who took part in making this meeting happen and succeed. In this connection, we cannot overlook the roles of the board of directors, the organizing committee and the secretarial group, as well as Intertours who handled the needed reservations and travel arrangements. Similarly, we cannot deny the donations offered by the banks and companies working in the field of nuclear medicine whether   representing   equipment   manufactures or radiopharmacentrical producers, and which helped us to have such a successful meeting.

The sponsors arranged in descending order of their contributions were:

First Category:

1. Gamma Trade Co.
           2. Maggie Medical.
           3. Arab Medical Supplies.
           4. Misr International Bank.
          5. International Electronics.

Second Category:

6. Quadri Pharma.
7. Egypt Air.

Third Category:

8. Foumedco.
9. Acapi.
10. T3A

Fourth Category:

11. Astra Zeneca.
           12. National Co. for Distribution.
           13. Arab Contractors for Maintainance
           14. Essex Chemie
           15. H. La Roche

Fifth Category:

16. Novartis.
17. International Trading Group.
18. Novo Nordisk.

We hope to enjoy your pleasant company as usual in our next meeting of 2002.

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdel-Razzak

President of ESNMS

Tel: +202 685 6560

Fax: +202 686 1624

Web Site: www.esnms.com

E-mail: esnms@esnms.com

The Third Annual Meeting
February 15-17,2002
Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt

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