Patient Education Day Schedule
9:30 am - McCormick Place Convention Center - Lakeside Building, 3rd Floor
Registration Opens (outside Room E353c)
10:00 - 11:30 am CDT
General Sessions (available both in-person and virtually) - Room E353c
Online audience: View here on YouTube
- What is Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging? / Radiation Safety
John Sunderland, PhD, MBA, Director of PET Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa
- How to Understand and Evaluate Clinical Trials
Thor Halfdanarson, MD, Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
11:30 am - 12:45 pm CDT
FREE Luncheon (available in-person only) - Room E353c
- Speaker: Comedian Steve Mazan, a patient with Neuroendocrine Tumors and subject of the documentary Dying to Do Letterman
1:00 - 1:45 pm CDT
Exhibit Hall/Poster Session Tour (available in-person only)
2:00 - 3:30 pm CDT
Breakout Sessions (available both in-person and virtually)
- Breast Cancer- Room E353b
Online audience: View here on YouTube
- Welcome and Patient Perspective - Jeri Francoeur, Chair, SNMMI Patient Advocacy Advisory Board, and Advocate, Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation
- Imaging Tools for Finding, Staging, and Characterizing Breast Cancer - David Mankoff, MD, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Radiology Department, University of Pennsylvania
- Molecular Breast Imaging for Dense Breasts - Bital Savir-Baruch, MD, FACNM, Professor of Radiology, Division Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Radiology Fellowship Program; Director, Department of Medical Imaging, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Arizona, Banner University Medical Center
- Treating Metastatic Breast Cancer: Current Practice and Future Directions - Patricia Robinson, MD, Hematologist/Oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center
- Prostate Cancer - Room E353c
Online audience: View here on YouTube
- What the Heck is Nuclear Medicine (in Prostate Cancer)? - Jan Manarite, Executive Vice President, Cancer ABCs
- Using PSMA and other Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Therapy Procedures for Prostate Cancer - Gholam Berenji, MD, Nuclear Medicine
Physician, University of California Los Angeles and VA Greater Los
Angeles Healthcare System; and Hiten Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology, Northwestern University
- Prostate Cancer Risk and Care for Veterans - Mike Crosby, Founder, Veterans Prostate Cancer Awareness Inc.
- Neuroendocrine Tumors - Room E353a
Online audience: View here on YouTube
- Welcome and Introductions - Josh Mailman, MBA, President, NorCal CarciNET Community, Ripon, CA (moderator)
- Advances in NETs and Pheo/Para Diagnosis and Therapy: Nuclear Medicine Perspective - Dan Pryma, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Therapy, and Director, PET Center, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
- Advances in NETs Diagnosis and Therapy: Oncology Perspective - Thor Halfdanarson, MD, Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- A Day in the Life of a Patient Receiving PRRT - Adam Brown, BS, NMTCB (CNMT) (CT) (PET), RT(N), Manager, CT and Molecular Imaging & Therapy, Oregon Health and Science University.
3:45 - 5:00 pm CDT
Reception - Room E353c
Registration is now closed.
In Person Registrants: Please note that parking for this event is available at McCormick Place Lot C on Fort Dearborn Drive. Patient Education Day staff will validate your parking, so there will be no cost to park in the lot for the day.