NMISTC Report October 25, 2008

Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences

Technical Committee

Report to NPSS AdCom

Charles WatsonOctober 25, 2008

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NMISC actions

3 NMISC motions are on the November ballot for TABARC; TAB in Feb 09: Increase IEEE Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award to $1500

Increase The Edward J Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award to $3000

Rename the YI award in honor of Bruce Hasegawa

Sub-Committe Chairs/Officers NSS/MIC Oversight: Tom Lewellen to replace Craig Woody

AdCom Representative: Tom Lewellen to replace Ron Jaszczak

Awards/Fellows: Anna Celler to replace Paul Kinahan

Communications: Ron Huesman to remain

Secretary/Nominations: Steve Meikle to remain

A summary of the Oversight Committee’s work on NSS/MIC site selection for 2012, prepared by Craig Woody and Tom Lewellen, was circulated to NMISC for comment

NMISC annual meeting was held Oct 23, 2008; will report on this at next AdCom

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NMISC elections

Five new members have been elected to NMISC (thanks to Steve Meikle) Ron Jaszczak (Duke University)

Irene Buvat (CNRS, France)

Kris Inewski (Redlen Technologies, Canada)

Georges El Fakhri (Massachusetts General Hospital)

Ray Muzic (Case Western Reserve University)

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MIC status

2007, Honolulu (Benjamin Tsui, General Chair; Eric Frey, MIC Program Chair) Defer to Craig Woody for financial status

$246k out of $1236k total budget returned to IEEE

2008, Dresden (Uwe Bratzler, General Chair; Wolfgang Enghardt, MIC Program Chair) Defer to Uwe Bratzler for status

2100 abstract submissions (total) from nearly 60 countries, 207 rejected (9.9%)

Over 2000 registered

10 special-focus workshops on site

2 satellite workshops with IEEE technical co-sponsorship:

Joint Workshop on Detector Development (DESY, Hamburg), Oct 16 – 17

Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich), Oct 27 – 28

2009, Orlando (Richard Lanza, General Chair; Ramsey Badawi, MIC Program Chair) Defer to Dick Lanza for details

The MIC deputy chair will be Craig Levin

Martin Tornai will be co-chair for MIC workshops.

Will submit an R13 to NIBIB for support of MIC 2009, limit is $10,000.

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MIC status continued

2010, Knoxville (Ron Keyser, General Chair; David Townsend, MIC Program Chair) First meeting of the Organizing Committee was held Thurs Oct 23

Defer to Ron Keyser for details The contract for the convention center and the hotels has been signed and a deposit given

The convention center deposit covered by the City of Knoxville – to be repayed with advance from IEEE

2011 (David Townsend, General Chair) Will be in Valencia, Spain (Spain’s third largest city, on the eastern Mediterranean coast)

Valencia Conference Center and the neighboring Sorollo and Hilton Hotels

Defer to Craig Woody for additional details

2012 (Tom Lewellen, General Chair) Considered several sites on the West coast of North America

Albuquerque, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane, Anaheim, Reno or San Diego

Four additional site visits made

Anaheim was chosen by vote of Oversight Committee

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To be done

Reconcile RITC and NMISTC bylaws: The term of office of the Chairperson of the Oversight Subcommittee shall be one

year, but the Chairperson may be re-appointed to the same position for no more than one additional term.

Provide NMISTC guidance to Oversight sub-Committee on location and growth of NSS/MIC