AANMS Registrar Research Award

The Award is open to advanced trainees in nuclear medicine who are enrolled in a training programme approved by the Joint Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR). Recently qualified specialists may enter, provided the work for the presentation was carried our during the period of advanced training and is presented at the first Annual Scientific Meeting after completion of training.

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2020 AANMS Registrar Research Award
 
The AANMS would like to congratulate Dr Shyam Sankaran on winning the 2020 AANMS Registrar Research Award for his presentation
Excellent suppression of physiological myocardial FDG activity in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis prepared with a 24-hour high fat very low carbohydrate diet and prolonged fasting. 

Dr Sankaran undertook the research for this presentation while completing his first year of nuclear medicine training at The Alfred Hospital in 2019,
and is currently completing his advanced training at Monash Health in Melbourne.
The AANMS would like to congratulate all the Award Entrants and acknowledge their work in applying and presenting. Thank you to the judging panel and all others involved.
The AANMS would also like to thank ANZSNM in providing the platform for the Awards and presentations, and in making the Annual Scientific Meeting possible via the online platform.
 
2020 Annual Scientific Meeting AANMS Registrar Award Presenters:

Dr Sally Ayesa
The diagnostic value of 67Ga-citrate in the evaluation of patients with a suspected site of infection

Dr Melissa Cheng
The value of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT in assessing treatment response in men with oligometastatic prostate cancer treated with stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR)

Dr Bridgid Connolly
Quantitative MRI and FDG-PET/CT Imaging of Tumoural Heterogeneity in cervical carcinoma

Dr Shyam Sankaran
Excellent suppression of physiological myocardial FDG activity in patients with known or suspected cardiac sarcoidosis prepared with a 24-hour high fat very low carbohydrate diet and prolonged fasting


Watch the 2020 Presentation Below

 

 
 
Past Award Winners:

2019

Dr Felix Paterson, Dr Jones and Partners Medical Imaging
Comparing PSMA PET/CT and MRI with biopsy findings in the initial diagnosis of prostate malignancy

2018

Dr Robert Khor
Non-Invasive Assessment of Acute Graft vs Host Disease of the Gastrointestinal Tract Following Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Using FDG PET


Refer to the Society Archive page HERE to read more on past award winners and their abstracts