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Book Launch - TJ Danaraj: Doctor and Teacher Extraordinaire, Medical Academies of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur – 5 May 2012 The book TJ Danaraj: Doctor and Teacher Extraordinaire was compiled, written and published by Puan Sri Dr Wong Hee Ong. The late Tan Sri Prof Emeritus Dr Thamboo John Danaraj (1914-1996) was the founding dean of University Malaya’s medical faculty and highly revered by those whom he taught. Many luminaries were his students including Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and former Director General of Health, Tan Sri Datuk Dr Ismail Merican. It was thus a fitting tribute to this great man of medicine when the launch was held on the 3rd floor of the Medical Academies of Malaysia, in the hall named Dewan TJ Danaraj. The launch was officiated by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
The AOSR Council Meets in Yokohama at the Japan Radiological Society Meeting – 12-15 April 2012 The Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology (AOSR) Executive Council held meetings facilitated and hosted by the Japan Radiological Society (JRS) in Yokohama during the cherry blossom season in Japan. The Exco met on the 13th April 2012, and also held an informal meeting with the European Society of Radiology (ESR). Representing the ESR were Dr Gabriel P. Krestin, Dr András Palkó and Dr Maximilian Reiser. The council will meet again at the 2012 AOCR in Sydney, 29 Aug to 2 Sep 2012.
College of Radiology (CoR) and Malaysian Society of Radiographers (MSR) Joint Scientific Meeting, Penang – 30 Mar to 1 Apr 2012 The Annual Scientific Meeting of the CoR was held in Equatorial Hotel, Penang and for the first time, it was a joint meeting with the Malaysian Society of Radiographers. There was a whopping 401 participants at the meeting. The faculty consisted of foreign and local speakers. There was also a Fellowship/Masters (Radiology) tutorial series. The pre-congress programme consisted of seminars in Head & Neck, Paediatrics, Musculoskeletal, Body Imaging and Interventional Radiology.
Prof Dr KH Ng on the Importance of Standardisation of Breast Density Measurement, The Lancet Oncology – 1 Apr 2012 Prof Dr KH Ng, PhD with the University Malaya Medical Centre has expounded on the importance of standardisation of breast density measurement. This was published in The Lancet Oncology Comment in the Vol 13, April 2012 Issue. Together with his co-authors Prof Dr CH Yip and Assoc Prof Nur Aishah Mohd Taib, the comment focussed on the need to establish and validate an international standard for clinical breast density measurement that assesses the breast volumetrically. This would reduce sources of error with visual assessment or semi automated computerised methods. Given the fact that breast density has been associated with increased risk of breast cancer, a more accurate density assessment would result in better prediction of risk. For the moment, physicians should be cautious about recommendations on breast cancer risk from breast density as seen on the mammogram to avoid false alarms and missed diagnoses.
CoR Meet the Expert Event Proves Exciting: Image Fusion and Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound – The New Tools in Interventional Ultrasound, Kuala Lumpur – 18 Mar 2012 The College of Radiology organised a “Meet the Expert” event at Sunway Putra Hotel, Kuala Lumpur where Dr Christian Pállson Nolsøe from Denmark spoke on Image Fusion and Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound – The New Tools in Interventional Ultrasound. Dr Nolsøe also did a live demonstration of how he used volume navigation image fusion and GPS on the LOGIQ® E9 ultrasound unit. Dr Nolsøe’s talk was followed by Mat Jones’s on Ultrasound Technology Trend – What’s Next? The technology driven trends included miniaturisation, reduced system cost, volume imaging, improved image quality, sophisticated real time image processing, contrast usage and DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) image storage. Read more here
“A Novel Approach of Gastrointestinal Transit Investigation Using SPECT and MR Image Fusion” Scientific Paper Wins Certificate of Merit at the ECR 2012, Vienna – March 2012 Malaysian medical physicist, Chai-Hong Yeong, reading her doctorate in medical physics at the Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur has won a Certificate of Merit for the scientific paper submitted to the 2012 European Congress of Radiology for which she was lead author. The scientific paper was “A Novel Approach of Gastrointestinal Transit Investigation Using SPECT and MR Image Fusion”. Congratulations to Chai-Hong and her co-authors. Prof Dr KH Ng, her mentor was very proud of this achievement.
First Asian Symposium on Breast Density, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur - 21 Feb 2012 The University Malaya Cancer Research Institute (UMCRi) in collaboration with the Biomedical Imaging Department of the University of Malaya organised the First Asian Symposium on Breast Density. Despite scientific publications showing the link between dense breasts on mammograms and the increased risk of breast cancer over the years (from 1976), it was only as recent as 2010 before it was widely accepted as an independent risk factor for breast cancer.
The 21st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Singapore Radiological Society and the College of Radiologists, Singapore – 11-12 Feb 2012 The theme of the meeting was “Breast and Thoracic Imaging: Where do we go from here?”. This meeting was well attended with an invited faculty of local and international speakers. Prof Shih-Chang Wang delivered the FY Khoo Lecture. His lecture entitled ‘Why Radiology Needs Philosophy” was intriguing with analogies made between philosophy and the practice of radiology. The meeting was preceded by a pre-congress workshop on Diagnostic Radiology Residency: Train the Trainers Workshop as well as breast and thoracic categorical sessions. Congratulations to Drs Richard Yeo and Gervais Wansaicheong and their organising committee on this successful meeting.
Seminar on Health Sector Reform and Financial Sustainability, Kuala Lumpur – 11 Dec 2011 The Ministry of Health, Malaysia in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, organised a 1-day seminar on Health Sector Reform and Financial Sustainability at the Institute for Health Management in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. The 2 speakers were Prof Peter Berman, Ph D (Public Policy) from Harvard School of Public Health and Paul Shaw, PhD (Economics). Paul Shaw is currently the Program Advisor of the World Bank Institute’s Flagship Program on Health Sector Reform and Financial Sustainability. Both speakers have had vast experience in their respective areas. The Ministry of Health has been assessing and reviewing various initiatives aimed at strengthening the national health sector in order to address emerging challenges and issues whilst aligning it with the country’s aspiration to become a high income economy by 2020.
College of Radiology’s Breast Seminar Goes East to Kota Kinabalu – 10-11 Dec 2011 In line with the College of Radiology’s (CoR) maxim to elevate and maintain the quality of mammograms and their interpretation, the annual breast meeting primarily to provide Malaysian radiologists, radiographers and medical physicists an opportunity to update and network went East, specifically to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, East Malaysia. There were 190 participants, nearly double that expected and for the radiographers’ hands-on workshops held in Hospital Likas and Hospital Queen Elizabeth II, there were 55 per hospital. Read more here
The Eleventh Asian & Oceanic Society of Paediatric Radiology (AOSPR) Congress in conjunction with the 3rd National Congress of Indonesian Society of Paediatric Radiology (PDSRAI), Bali, Indonesia – 10-12 Nov 2011 The 11th Asian & Oceanic Society of Paediatric Radiology (AOSPR) Congress in conjunction with the 3rd National Congress of Indonesian Society of Paediatric Radiology (PDSRAI) was held from 10-12 November 2011 in Kartika Plaza Discovery Hotel, Bali, Indonesia. The theme for the congress was “Update in Paediatric Radiology: Hand-in-Hand Facing the Future”. The congress was well attended by local participants together with a considerable number from overseas, including 5 delegates from Malaysia. Four posters were presented by the Malaysian delegates in the scientific meeting.
The AOSR Council Meets at the Sixty-Seventh Korean Congress of Radiology, Seoul, Korea – 27-29 Oct 2011 The Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology (AOSR) Executive Council held a meeting facilitated and hosted by the Korean Society of Radiology (KSR) at the 67th Korean Congress of Radiology (KCR2011) in late October 2011. The Exco met for 3 hours on 27th Oct 2011. The next big event of the AOSR will be the 2012 AOCR in Sydney, 29 Aug to 2 Sep 2012.
This year’s KCR 2011 was an outstanding success with at least 70% of the congress being conducted in English. There were 2,629 participants and 59 exhibitors at the Trade Exhibition. In addition, Dr Jianping Dai (China), Dr Antonio Rondo (Italy), Dr Philippe Devred (France) and Dr Michael Forsting (Germany) were conferred as KSR Honorary Members. Congratulations to the organising committee of the KCR 2011 and their president, Dr Dong Ik Kim.
Dr Chang Keng Wee is the new Master of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia and 14 new CoR members inducted, Kuala Lumpur - 22 Sep 2011 Congratulations to Dr Chang Keng Wee on being elected as the new Master of the Academy of Medicine (AMM) at the annual general meeting of the AMM on the evening 22 Sep 2011 in the Medical Academies of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Congratulations to the new College of Radiology members inducted at the Conferment & Induction Ceremony held in conjunction with the opening ceremony of the 9th Ministry of Health- Academy of Medicine of Malaysia Scientific Meeting (MOH-AMM).
EIT Breast –A painless way for early detection of breast cancer? Scientists/medical physicists are in the process of conducting clinical studies to solve quite a few issues regarding the use of impedance measurements in the breasts. What is EIT? Can it be used to detect early breast cancer?
How Safe is Radiofrequency? It is time to find out what RF can do FOR rather than TO people! Radiology Malaysia conducts an online with Prof C-K Chou, PhD, a multiple award-winning scientist and currently Motorola Chief EME Scientist, and the Director of Corporate EME Research Laboratory, responsible for RF product safety.
Is Maintaining Hope in the Face of Despair Possible? Hope cannot exist without despair and vice versa. How can one therefore re-ignite hope when all seems pointless or death and suffering seems imminent?
Tai Chi Chi Kung, Healing and Cancer? “….Tai Chi complements Chi Kung. Chi Kung provides the foundation like a tree's roots while Tai Chi is like the trunk of the tree…”
One-On-One with Prof Dr John R. Cameron: His Mission - Making a Difference to Society! Prof Dr John R. Cameron, a medical physicist who has devoted his life to the application of physics in the medical world.
Up Close with the Father of Spiral CT – Prof Dr Willi A. Kalender Willi Kalender pioneered spiral (volumetric) Computed Tomography (CT)catalysing the explosive development of multislice CT scanners.
15 Nov 2011: The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Paediatric Imaging and the Society for Nuclear Medicine’s joint campaign “Go with the Guidelines” launched. This is dedicated to radiation protection for children during nuclear medicine procedures. Get the North American Consensus Guidelines here.
14 Feb 2011: Pause and Pulse - Phase 4 of the Image Gently Campaign focuses on diagnostic fluoroscopic procedures. www.imagegently.org
Check it out now for materials with regard justification for procedures, selection of the appropriate examination, using techniques to reduce dose during x-rays and pulsing the x-ray in fluoroscopy as dose-saving measures.
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The benefits of ESR membership are as follows:
-free electronic access to European Radiology - free electronic access to EURORAD - free electronic access to EPOS™, the Electronic Presentation Online System - free electronic access to eECR - free electronic access to EDIPS Download, ECR's Digital Preview System - all activities of the European School of Radiology (ESOR) are offered exclusively to members of the ESR - free access to the online job forum
EDIPS Download is part of ECR’s Digital Preview System. It enables you to view and download Microsoft® Office PowerPoint Presentations of lectures from ECR 2006 to date, throughout the year. As an ESR member, enjoy browsing for free through 4,058 presentations covering a wide variety of radiological topics, and provided by the most esteemed scientists from all over the world.
International Society of Radiology Imaging of Tropical Diseases DVD
This book developed into DVD form has been made available by its authors (Philip Palmer and Maurice Reeder) and publisher (Springer) free of charge to members of the ISR. If you are a CoR member, access this DVD at www.isradiology.org
Other Resources Available from the International Society of Radiology (ISR): 1. GoRad: Monthly Compendium of practice-related articles selected from 16 leading radiology journals 2. Virtual Congress 3.Other educational contents and reference materials
The BIIJ is a new peer-reviewed open access e journal. It is a multidisciplinary journal covering imaging, nuclear medicine, RT, informatics, molecular imaging, medical physics, biomedical engineering etc. Contributions are welcome and strongly encouraged.
IAEA Calls for Enhanced Radiation Protection of Patients
Advances in medical imaging techniques are allowing doctors to detect hidden diseases and make ever more accurate diagnoses. But radiation safety experts at the IAEA say that overuse of high-tech scanning procedures may unnecessarily expose patients to increased radiation levels. Click here for video
For information about the Safe Use of ionising radiation for patients and health professionals, go to: http://rpop.iaea.org
QA in Mammo: CoR Survey in Malaysia
Quality assurance is crucial in Radiology and particularly so in mammography where poor quality films can mean a higher miss rate for breast cancers. The results of the CoR’s survey of QA in Mammography in Malaysia can be viewed in a poster that summarises the salient points.
The Art of Being Breast Aware: It is Everyone’s Business to be Breast Aware: This is a handy book to learn the basics of being breast aware. This 2nd edition (2009) has updates to relevant sections and a new chapter. Contact the College of Radiology Secretariat for a copy of the book. The book is also available at the Breast Cancer Welfare Association.
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The 21st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Singapore Radiological Society and the College of Radiologists, Singapore – 11-12 Feb 2012
College of Radiology’s Breast Seminar Goes East to Kota Kinabalu – 10-11 Dec 2011
The AOSR Council Meets at the Sixty-Seventh Korean Congress of Radiology, Seoul, Korea – 27-29 Oct 2011
Is Maintaining Hope in the Face of Despair Possible?
Up Close with the Father of Spiral CT – Prof Dr Willi A. Kalender
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) – the ultimate in imaging?
FAQ on Common Radiological Procedures
