RANZCR 2008 ASM

16-19 October 2008
Call for Abstracts: Now Closed
Abstract Submission Deadline: 09 May 2008
Abstract Notification of Acceptance:End June 2008
Registration Opens:Now Open
Author Registration & Early Bird Deadline: 15 July 2008
Standard Registration: After 15 July 2008

Radiology International Guest Faculty
Professor Howard A. Rowley - Carestream ProfessorProfessor of Radiology, Neurology & Neurosurgery; Chief of Neuroradiology; Joseph Sackett Professor of Radiology.
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Professor Rowley is board-certified in Radiology, Neurology, and Neuroradiology. His interests include stroke imaging, epilepsy and functional imaging.


Dr James SmirniotopoulosProfessor and Chair of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at the Uniformed Services University (USUHS), Washington, DC.
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Dr Smirniotopoulos is also Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics. He was formerly Senior Scientist and Chief of Neuroradiology at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC. Dr. S - as he likes to be called - is the Chief Editor and inventor of MedPix - the largest peer-reviewed online teaching file for Radiology.



Professor Lawrence GinsbergProfessor of Diagnostic Radiology and Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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Special areas of interest include head & neck cancer and skull base tumor Imaging, imaging of perineural tumor spread in head and neck cancer, pitfalls in head and neck imaging, and particularly, imaging of the post treatment head and neck cancer patient, including complications of therapy.



Professor David M HansellProfessor of Thoracic Imaging, National Heart & Lung Institute and Division of Investigative Sciences, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, England.
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Professor Hansell is a consultant radiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London with a particular interest in the investigation of diffuse lung disease. He has published 200+ papers, written numerous book chapters and is lead author of a standard textbook (Imaging of Diseases of the Chest, 4th Edition Elsevier Mosby 2005).



Professor Patrik RogallaDepartment of Radiology, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Professor Rogalla’s areas of focus include body CT, interventional CT, cardiac CT and three dimensional postprocessing techniques.




Assistant Clinical Professor Phillip F. J. TirmanAssistant Clinical Professor - University of California San Francisco, Dept of Radiology.
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Formerly Medical Director- National Orthopedic Imaging Associates and Musculoskeletal MRI Director - California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco, CA

Associate Professor Christine M. GlastonburyAssociate Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor Glastonbury’s subspecialty focus is in Head and Neck imaging with particular interest in the imaging of H&N tumors and of hearing loss.

Radiation Oncology International Guest Faculty
Dr Prabhakar Tripuraneni – ASTRO SpeakerHead of Radiation Oncology and Chief of Staff at the Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California.
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Prabhakar Tripuraneni, M.D. graduated from Guntur Medical College in South India and did his residency at both the University of Alberta and the University of California at San Francisco. He has been at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California for 25 years, where he is currently the head of radiation oncology and Chief of Staff of the hospital. Dr. Tripuraneni is a pioneer in coronary vascular brachytherapy, using radiation to prevent coronary in-stent restenosis, having done the first case in North America.


Professor Vincent GregoireDirector of the Centre for Molecular Imaging and Experimental Radiotherapy, Professor in Radiation Oncology, and Head of Clinic in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Academic Hospital of the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels (Belgium).
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Prof. Vincent Gregoire graduated as a Medical Doctor (MD) in 1987 from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He was board certified in Radiation Oncology in Belgium in 1994 and obtained his PhD in Radiation Biology in 1996 after a fellowship at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (USA).
Since his return from the USA, Prof. GREGOIRE was appointed at the Academic Hospital of the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels (Belgium) where he is currently Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging and Experimental Radiotherapy Professor in Radiation Oncology, and Head of Clinic in the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Dr. Michael Milosevic MD, FRCPCAssociate Professor – Department of Radiation Oncology – University of Toronto
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Dr. Milosevic is a Clinician Scientist in the Radiation Medicine Program (RMP) at Princess Margaret Hospital, and Director of Research in the Radiation Medicine Program. He is also the President of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (CARO). His clinical interests are in gynaecologic and genitourinary malignancies, and he is the RMP gynaecologic oncology site leader.


RANZCR 2008 ASM – Radiology Program
WEDNESDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2008
1230 Registration Desk opens
1330 – 1700 Business Meetings
1900 – 2300 International Speakers’ and Sponsors’ Dinner**Invitation Only

THURSDAY 16th OCTOBER 2008
0700 Registration Desk opens
0800 Exhibition opens
0815 – 0845 Welcome to RANZCR 2008 ASM – Combined Welcome Address
0845 – 1000 Categorical Course – Neuroradiology / Head & Neck
1. Stroke imaging 1: CT protocols – Howard Rowley (25)
2. Stroke – clinician’s perspective – Jim Jannes (20)
3. Stroke imaging

2: MRI protocols – Howard Rowley (25)

1000 – 1030Morning Tea / ExhibitionThoracic Imaging
1. HRCT – A clinician’s perspective – Paul Reynolds (20)
2. HRCT of small airways disease – David Hansell (30)
3. ABC’s of HRCT - Sharyn MacDonald (30)
4. HRCT of pulmonary vasculopathies – David Hansell (30)

1030 – 1230
Body Imaging1. Oesophageal cancer staging – Richard Mendelson (30)
2. Useful signs in GI imaging – Patrik Rogalla (30)
3. Coronary CT – Ruben Sebben (30)
4. 12 years of CT colonography – Patrik Rogalla (30)

1230 – 1330 Lunch / ExhibitionNeuroradiology / Head & Neck1. Imaging in epilepsy – Howard Rowley (30)
2. A Review of Demyelinating States – Sandy Patel (30)
3. Functional imaging: applications in neuro-oncology – Howard Rowley (30)

1330 – 15001330 – 13401340 – 13501350 – 14001400 – 14101410 – 14201420 – 14301430 – 14401440 – 14501450 – 1500

Proffered Papers
1. The Assessment of the Loop-Snare Technique when Standard Retrieval of Inferior Vena CavaFilters Fails – Orla Doody
2. Drug Eluting Beads in the Treatment of Hepatic Malignancy – Manfred Spanger
3. First pass PET CT guided biopsies & fnac’s; Comparisson with routine CT guided Biopsies –Swapnil Bhagat
4. Cost-benefit analysis of the use of DynaCT in the pre-interventional assessment of hepatocellularcarcinoma – John Magnussen
5. Sonoenteroclysis- A new technique for evaluation of small bowel tuberculosis – Birinder Nagi
6. CT of inguinal canal lipomas; frequently seen, but rarely diagnosed – Shadley Fataar
7. Epidemiology of thoracic spine fractures in trauma: identifying high-risk patients who may benefitfrom CT screening – Ranjit Singh
8. The MRI appearances of medial head of gastrocnemius tendinopathy and its associated findings –Daren Gibson
9. An Evaluation Of Referral Patterns For Shoulder Ultrasound – Ganesh Ramaseshan

1500 – 1530 Afternoon Tea / Exhibition

1530 – 1600 RANZCR Forum – AGMNeuroradiology / Head & Neck
1. Intraaxial tumors - Jim Smirniotopoulos (50)

1600 – 1700Interventional / CT Angiography
1. CT angiography of aortic endoluminal grafts – Will Thompson (20)
2. Carotid Imaging – Comparison of Modalities – Ruben Sebben (20)
3. CT Ultra low dose imaging – Patrik Rogalla (20)

1700 – 1830 RANZCR 2008 Welcome Reception (Radiology Trade Exhibition, Adelaide Convention Centre)



1830 Exhibition close1900 – 2300 Past President’s Dinner*
1930 – 2300 Trainee (Junior) Radiologists’ Reception*Invitation Only

FRIDAY 17th OCTOBER 2008

0630 Registration Desk opens0
800 Exhibition opensNeuroradiology / Head & Neck
1. Oral cavity, Oro pharynx Ca – What the clinician needs to know – Larry Ginsberg (30)
2. FDG PET in head and neck cancer – Christine Glastonbury (30)
3. Perineural tumour spread – Larry Ginsberg (30)
0830 – 10000830 – 08400840 – 08500850 – 09000900 – 09100910 – 09200920 – 09300930 – 09400940 – 09500950 - 1000

Proffered Papers
1. Christoph Stippich WITHDRAWN
2. MRI Findings in Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy of Childhood – Liqa Rousan
3. Whole Brain Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Adults with Phenylketonuria – Laughlin Dawes
4. Density Heterogeneity and Shape Irregularity as CT Growth Predictors in Intracerebral Hemorrhage– Christen Barras
5. Reproducibility and utility of linear (2D) measurements of cerebral atrophy in clinical cranial MRI -Lawrence Josey
6. Variation in cranial MRI protocols for demyelination in Australia - Lawrence Josey
7. DTI and MAG transfer in the assessment of optic nerve demyelination on 3 TESLA MRI –JogaChaganti
8. Can measurements from Lumbar Spine MRI scans predict the outcome of Selective Lumbar NerveRoot Blocks? – Iain Doherty
9. Memory performance patterns in screening mammography readers: 'highlighters' and 'memorisers'– Phebe Kok
1000 – 1030Morning Tea / ExhibitionNeuroradiology / Head & Neck
1. Extraaxial tumors – Jim Smirniotopoulos (30)
2. Post op complications in head and neck Ca patients – Larry Ginsberg (30)
3. Imaging of cholesteatoma – Andy Whyte (30)
4. Imaging in Paediatric Hearing Loss – Sandy Patel (30)

1030 – 1230Obstetric and Gynaecology
1. The fetal heart at morphology – Peter Muller (30)
2. Fetal doppler and growth – Chris Wilkinson (30)
3. Multiple pregnancy- what the obstetrician needs to know– Peter Muller (30)
4. MRI of cervical cancer – Kirsten Gormly (30)

1230 – 1330 Lunch / ExhibitionRouse Fellow’s, Baker Fellow’s and Bill Hare Luncheon*

Thoracic Imaging

1. Imaging of overlap lung disease – David Hansell (30)
2. HRCT of interstitial pneumonias – Sharyn MacDonald (30)
3. HRCT borderlands of normal – David Hansell (30)

1330 – 1500Breast Imaging

1. Does breast screening work? A review of performance in South Australia – Peter Downey & GelarehFarshid (30)
2. Digital breast imaging – Dilemmas and opportunities – Liz Wylie (30)
3. Breast MRI – Shih-chang Wang (30)1500 – 1530

Afternoon Tea / Exhibition1530 – 1700

Neuroradiology / Head & Neck

1. Imaging of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer – Larry Ginsberg (30)
2. Imaging in HIV/AIDS – Jim Smirniotopoulos (30)
3. Imaging of basal ganglia disorders– Howard Rowley (30)

1700 Exhibition close
1800 – 1930 Annual Ceremony and Nisbet Oration
1930 – 2300 President’s Reception


0630 Registration Desk opens

0800 Exhibition opens
Musculoskeletal
1. Shoulder instability – Phillip Tirman (30)
2. Shoulder US and MR correlation – Bill Breidahl (30)
3. Shoulder biceps internal impingement and microinstability - Phillip Tirman (30)

0830 – 1000
Paediatrics
1. Plain x-ray interpretation of a child presenting with a limp – Rebecca Linke (30)
2. CT in children – Patrik Rogalla (30)
3. Imaging of the Phakomatoses – Jim Smirniotopoulos (30)

1000 – 1030
Morning Tea / Exhibition

Neuroradiology / Head & Neck
1. Spinal Neoplasms – Jim Smirniotopoulos (30)
2. Imaging of the cranial nerves – Christine Glastonbury (30)
3. An Approach to the Orthopantomogram - Rudolf Boeddinghaus (30)
4. Imaging of the facial nerve – Andy Whyte (30)

1030 – 1230
QUDI / Nuclear Medicine

1. QUDI. Where to focus our efforts– Stacy Goergen (30)
2. Risk management for Radiologists - why bother! – Mandy Anderson (30)
3. SPECT / CT – Clinical Applications – Ghee Chew (30)
4. PET in Australia 2008 – Barry Chatterton (30)

1230 – 1330
Lunch / ExhibitionPresidential Lunch*Musculoskeletal

1. Imaging of the wrist and hand – Phillip Tirman (30)
2. Spectrum of MRI findings in the chronically painful sprained ankle– James Linklater (30)
3. Post-Op knee – Phillip Tirman (30)

1330 – 1500
Oncology
1. Reporting the oncology CT – Kirsten Gormly (30)
2. Imaging of the prostate gland – Stefan Heinze (30)
3. MRI of rectal cancer – Kirsten Gormly (30)

1500 – 1530 Afternoon Tea / ExhibitionMusculoskeletal / Neuroradiology
1. Imaging of anterior knee pain – Shaun Fowler (30)
2. New tricks with old sequences – Lynette Masters (30)
3. Coiling vs Clipping – Where are we at? – Geoff Parker (30)

Proffered Papers
1. Comparing CT Minimal Luminal Area Measurements of Intermediate Coronary Artery Stenosis withIntravascular Ultrasound – Mark Hansen
2. CT coronary angiography in the assessment of acute chest pain – Mark Hansen
3. The Value Of Low Dose HRCT In Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Caroline Judy Westerhout
4. Taking MDT To Heart: Models For Utilising Radiologist Expertise in Patient Treatment Decisions –Derek Weir
5. Review of Patients with Intravenous Contrast Extravasation with CT Studies 2004 – 2008. – RogerKingston
6. Feasibility of biomedical spectroscopic x-ray imaging with Medipix – Anthony Butler
7. Construction of a MARS scanner- a 3D spectroscopic x-ray imaging device - Anthony Butler
8. A quality improvement project in a public hospital radiology department: increasing patient throughputby improving the processes in the CT department – Pam Buckley
9. Non-compliance with diagnostic imaging pathways: can information-communication technologyhelp? – Jennifer Persaud
1530 – 17001530 – 15401540 – 15501550 – 16001600 – 16101610 – 16201620 – 16301630 – 16401640 – 16501650 – 1700
Trainee (Junior) Radiologists’ Forum1700
Exhibition close1900 – 2345
RANZCR Annual Awards Gala Dinner


SUNDAY 19th OCTOBER2008
0800 Registration Desk opens
0800 Exhibition opens0830 – 1000

Workshops and Special Interest Group Meetings

0830 – 0930 Resuscitation Session - Alex Pitman, Neil Cunningham & Julian Van Dijk

0930 – 1000 Radiology Integrated Training Initiative (R-ITI) - David Lindsell & Alan Ryan

Description of session: With workforce shortages, an inadequate number of training positions andpressures to reduce training time and increase trainee productivity, the College and training departments are now facing major challenges in the delivery of quality and efficient training programs.R-ITI is an innovative award-winning e-learning resource for trainee radiologists which is assisting in addressing these challenges in the UK. R-ITI was developed as a collaborative project between theRCR, the Department of Health (England) and the NHS.

1000 – 1030Morning Tea / Exhibition
1030 – 1200 Workshops and Special Interest Group MeetingsExhibitor’s De Brief
(1100 – 1200)1230 – 1330 Lunch / ExhibitionASM Committee Meeting De Brief*

1330 Exhibition close1330 – 1530
Workshops and Special Interest Group Meetings
1530 Meeting ClosePlease
Note: The above program is current as of 10 August 2008 and is subject to change.