Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee Report to NPSS AdCom Dimitris Visvikis 19 July 2014
General NMISC issues: Elections 1 Joint Oversight Subcommittee (JOS) responsible for NSS/MIC site selection: Ramsey Badawi (elected member for ) NMISC membership (8 candidates) Nicola Belcari (University of Pisa) Volkmar Schulz (RWTH Aachen University) Jae Sung Lee (Seoul National University College of Medicine) Joyita Dutta, (MGH, MA) Kris Thielemans (UCL, Londres) Chi Liu, (Yale, CT) Paul Vaska (Stony Brook University, NY) Dimitra Darambara (ICR, Londres) 19 July 2014
General NMISC issues: Elections 2 NPSS ADCOM representative: (3 candidates) Steve Meikle (University of Sydney) Magnus Dalhbom (UCLA, CA) Tim Turkington (Duke, NC) 19 July 2014
General NMISC issues: PSMR 2015 Request for technical co-sponsorship of PET-MR/SPECT-MR (PSMR) 2015 meeting The PSMR 2014 was technically co-sponsored by IEEE (~200 attendees, IEEE membership desk: 18 new members (9+9)) Paper submissions to IEEE TNS-NMIS NMISC voted in favor of technical co-sponsorship for PSMR 2015 Members of NMISC in the organizing committee: Paul Marsden, George Loudos, Dimitris Visvikis 19 July 2014
2014, Seattle, WA: Tony Lavietes is General Chair; Georges El Fakhri is the MIC Program Chair 646 submissions (118 orals, 461 posters) for the MIC part Entire day of joint sessions: NSS/MIC, NSS/RTSD, NSS/RTSD/MIC 3 short refresher courses (lunchtime) Extensive short courses program Program should be released soon Paperless! 19 July 2014 NSS/Medical Imaging Conference
A working group jointly appointed by RISC and NMISC to investigate how to handle the upcoming changes in terms of conference proceedings for the NSS/MIC. First draft report to be discussed in Seattle (Nov 2014) Members: Dimitris Visvikis, Paul Marsden, George Loudos, Dennis Schaart Chiara Guazzoni, Lorenzo Fabris, Patrick Le Dû, Tony Lavietes 19 July 2014 NSS/Medical Imaging Conference
NSS/Medical Imaging Conference (status and plans) 2015: Vesna Sossi is General Chair; Adam Alessio will be the MIC Program Chair. 2016, Strasbourg, France: Maxim Titov is General Chair (CC contract signed, most of the committee members appointed, Dimitris Visvikis proposed as the MIC Program Chair) 2017, North America: Chattanooga, Atlanta, Ottawa (reports submitted from JOS, 1 st round of votes already in, decision before the Seattle meeting). Program chair should be from NMIS 2018: Proposals from Australia, Japan, UK 19 July 2014