ORNL Nuclear Medicine Staff Organize and Participate in International Symposia (September 1998)

Members of the ORNL Nuclear Medicine Program (Life Sciences Division, Assessment Technology Section) participated in major international congresses during August and September. Saed Mirzadeh presented an invited paper at the American Chemical Society Meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts on August 23-27. F. F. (Russ) Knapp organized two international symposia in association with the World Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (WFNMB/EANM), which was held in Berlin, Germany, on August 30-September 4, 1998. He organized the "Symposium on Radiopharmaceuticals and Radiopharmacy," held on September 2, which encompassed a half-day session with six invited speakers reviewing the state of the art and future perspecitives of radiopharmaceuticals for a number of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. He also chaired three technical sessions and made four presentations at the WFNM/EANM Congress. In conjunction with J. H. Kropp, M.D., he also organized the "4^th International Symposium on Radioiodinated Fatty Acids for Cardiac Imaging," which was held as a Post-Congress Meeting on September 5-6, in Dresden, Germany. The proceedings will be published in a special issue of the journal Nuklearmedizin. Dan McPherson presented an invited paper at the WFNMB/EANM Congress symposium, and he also presented invited lectures in Frankfurt and Bonn, Germany, and Stockholm, Sweden, in conjunction with this trip. (Contact: Russ Knapp, jkp@ornl.gov, 574-6225; Funding Source: DOE-OBER)