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BNMS Awards & Prize Winners 2024
 
President's Medal 2024
Dr John Buscombe
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust

 

 

Norman Veall 2024
Dr Glenn Flux
Royal Marsden Hospital

 

 

Radiographers, Technologists & Nurses Group Award 2024
Professor Emeritus Peter Hogg
University of Salford

 

Roll of Honour 2024
Dr Bev Ellis
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

Honorary Membership 2024
Mr Stephen Anderson
Bright Technologies

 

POSTER PRIZES SPONSORED BY National Physical Laboratory
 
3rd Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Amit Parekh, Peter Jarvis, Tristan Richardson, Jennifer Downs, Abigail Evans, Tony Skene
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Poole, United Kingdom
No. P30 “Markers that predict localisation of parathyroid adenomas on Sestamibi SPECT-CT”

 
2nd Poster Prize of £200 awarded to:
Iris Hardewig1, Ute Hegenbart2, Paco Bravo3, Pablo Garcia-Pavia4, Norman Koglin1, Andrew Stephens1, Ashutosh Wechalekar5
1Life Molecular Imaging GmbH, Berlin, Germany. 2Amyloidosis Center University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. 4Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain. 5National Amyloidosis Center, London, United Kingdom
No. P046 “Phase 3 Clinical Trial on the Efficacy of [18F]florbetaben PET for diagnosis of cardiac AL amyloidosis.”

 
1st Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Alex McClement, Helen Pearce, George Petrides, Tamir Ali
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
No. P027 “Evaluation of LVAD infections with [18F]FDG PET-CT”
  
RTNG PRIZES SPONSORED BY CURIUM
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Carolina Rodrigues, Ana Moura, Amy Eccles, Vimal Gokani, Neil Soneji
Imperial College Healthcare NHS, London, United Kingdom
No. P008 “How to solve a problem: An unusual case for lymphoscintigraphy”

 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Sinéad Donnelly1, Kathryn Adamson1, Claire Jerrom2
1Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation trust, London, United Kingdom. 2Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. 37 “Inclusive Pregnancy - Improving the experience for gender non-conforming patients”

  
RADIOPHARMACY ORAL PRIZE SPONSORED BY ALLIANCE MEDICAL
 
£250 awarded to:
Anet Paul
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
No. 54 “Radiolabelling of Leucocytes in the Radiopharmacy – a Service Evaluation Study”

 
SAUL HERTZ RADIOTHERAPY PRIZES SPONSORED BY AN ANONYMOUS DONOR
 
 
Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Vineet Pant, Faisal Naeem, Sadia Salam, Amrith Chamnan, Sobhan Vinjamuri
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
No. P063 “Real world experience of patients referred for [177Lu]Lu-PSMA treatment in a UK teaching hospital: Importance of patient selection”

 

 
Oral Prize of £250 awarded to:
Amy Eccles1, Valerie Lewington1, Constantine Alifrangis2, Rebelidad Leshen1, Nishanth Dharmarajah1, Richard Meades1, Lovelyn Colcol1, Yolande Theys1, Neil Davis1, Katharine Piggott2, Heather Payne2, Angelito Vicente1, Christian Brown2, Ranju Dhawan1
1Hybrid Imaging & Therapy Unit, The Wellington Hospital, HCA Healthcare UK, London, United Kingdom. 2The Prostate Centre, HCA Healthcare UK, London, United Kingdom
No. 28 “Compassionate Use [177Lu]Lu-PSMA Therapy for castrate resistant prostate cancer - An early adopter preliminary experience (Oct 2019-Jan 2024)”

  
ORAL PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Neil Davis, Ann-Marie Quigley, Richard Meades
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. 64 “Does ChatGPT have the potential to improve the readability of patient information leaflets?”

 
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Katie Slade, Darren Morgan
Churchill Hospital Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
No. 56 “The safe and effective development and implementation of a novel [131I]metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) administration set following the withdrawal of the GE 131I MIBG giving set.”

 
1st Prize of £300 + President’s Cup awarded to:
Heather Polydor1, Marcus Bradley2
1University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT, Bristol, United Kingdom. 2North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom
No. 71 “Image processing of split-dose same-day Acetazolamide challenge SPECT for neurovascular
disease”
 
YOUNG INVESTIGATORS PRIZE SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
Clinical Prize £250 awarded to:
Pairavi Gnanananthan1, Kate Houghton1, Priten Khagram1, Riwa Meshaka2, Amy Eccles1, Sairah Khan1, Sameer Khan1, Mitesh Naik1, Neil Soneji1, Henry Tam1, Tara D Barwick1
1Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom. 2Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom 
No. 4 “Evaluation of the impact of novel digital PET-CT reconstructions in Herder score calculations for the evaluation of solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN) on [18F] FDG PET-CT”

Scientific Prize £250 awarded to:
Jack Johnson
University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
No. 6 “Exploration of a Neural Network Approach to Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimation”

 
STUDENT PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
Joint 2nd Prize of £150 awarded to:
Xhoana Gjini1, Simon Hughes2
1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 2University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
No P062 - “A descriptive study of the patterns of nodal metastases seen on the [ 68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TOC PETCT scans of 198 neuroendocrine tumours with abdominal primary aetiology”

 
Joint 2nd Prize of £150 awarded to:
Benjamin Yi Hong Tse1,2, Andy Welch1, Roger Staff2
1University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. 2Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
No P036 – “A systematic review of [68Ga]68Ga-FAPI in breast cancer”

 
1st Prize of £300  awarded to:
Rucha Ronghe1, Karla J. Suchacki2, David Dye3, Catriona Wimberley3,4, Simon Cherry5, Ramsey Badawi5, Lorenzo Nardo5, Elizabeth Li5, Benjamin Spencer5, Adriana A.S Tavares3,6
1The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 2Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 3Edinburgh Imaging, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 4Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Imaging, United Kingdom. 5EXPLORER Molecular Imaging Center, Davis, USA. 6University/British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
No 10 – “Total-body PET imaging to study bone metabolism at systems level in health and in lung cancer”

 
BNMS Lee Jenkins Memorial Prizes sponsored by Hermes
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Gemma Lewis1, Amit Nautiyal1, Kim Orchard1, Frederick J. Wilson2, Matthew Guy1, Sofia Michopoulou1 
1University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom. 2Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
No. 24 “Feasibility of Single-Time-Point Imaging for Organ Dosimetry in [90Y]Anti-CD66 Therapy”

 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Alisia Maldon-Stanley
Kings College London, London, United Kingdom. Queens Hospital, Essex, United Kingdom
No. P075 “The technical setup and experimental validation of quantitative SPECT-CT in [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE therapy monitoring”

 

Preclinical Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Mario Malinconico1, Lorenzo Isolan2, Marco Testa1, Alessandro Brunetti1, Francesca Boschi1, Marco Sumini2
1Comecer, Caste Bolognese, Italy. 2University of Bologna, Industrial Engineering Department, Montecuccolino Laboratory, Bologna, Italy
No. 13 “Development of Solid Target Technologies for [225Ac] Production with Proton Bombardment"

 

Physics Prize Sponsored by IPEM
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Lenka Vávrová1,2,3, Jan Taprogge2, Dominic Rushforth2, Glenn Flux2, Iain Murray2
1St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting, United Kingdom. 2Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom. 3King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
No. 60 “Machine learning for the prediction of radioiodine ablation outcome in differentiated thyroid cancer"

 

Ignac Fogelman Memorial Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Ian Armstrong, Rakesh Sajjan, Banu Sathyamurthi, Sivakumar Muthu
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
No. 49 “Developing semi-quantitative SPECT-CT for assessment of condylar hyperplasia"

 

Muriel Buxton-Thomas Memorial Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Kanzi Ahmad, Jim Birchall, Robert Radcliffe, Julie Speakman, Elaine Hamer, Nick Storry, Simon  Williams
Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, United Kingdom
No. 51 “An audit of our accuracy of [99mTc] Sestamibi SPECT-CT imaging in characterisation between renal cell cancer and oncocytoma "

 

POSTERS AWARDED CERTIFICATES OF MERIT 2024

P003  Exploring the Journey of Dementia Patients having an Amyloid Scan in a PET-CT Department
Amanda Walsh1, Hayley Greenaway2
1Life Molecular Imaging, Lytham, United Kingdom. 2PET-CT Unit Manager, Preston, United Kingdom
 
P008 How to solve a problem: An unusual case for lymphoscintigraphy
Carolina Rodrigues, Ana Moura, Amy Eccles, Vimal Gokani, Neil Soneji
Imperial College Healthcare NHS, London, United Kingdom
 
P017 ‘Sudden Collapse of the Radiopharmacy: Lessons Learned in Crisis
Amanda Isherwood, Jo Bevan, Lisa Bourne, Ann Hogan
Torbay Hospital, Torbay, United Kingdom
 
P021 ‘Hot Patella- an important sign not to be missed on triple phase bone scans
Mariyah Selmi1, Min Yen Wong1, Kennis Leung1, Mehvish Khatoon2, Umar Hanif1, Vladimir Popa-Nimigean1
1Russells Hall Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 2New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
 
P027 Evaluation of LVAD infections with [18F]FDG PET-CT
Alex McClement, Helen Pearce, George Petrides, Tamir Ali
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
 
 
P030 Markers that predict localisation of parathyroid adenomas on Sestamibi SPECT-CT
Amit Parekh, Peter Jarvis, Tristan Richardson, Jennifer Downs, Abigail Evans, Tony Skene
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, Poole, United Kingdom
 
P033 Unknown Primary- Usefulness of [18F]FDG PET-CT beyond diagnostic yield, a clinical outcome-based review from a UK teaching hospital
Vineet Pant, Faisal Naeem, Jose Carlos Chanyungco, Sadia Salam, Amrith Chamnan, Sobhan Vinjamuri
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
P042 Audit of [123I]DaTSCAN Reports across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) – frequency of 
follow-up imaging requests
Bryony Lumb Morollon1, Alison Bolster1,2, Gillian Ainslie-McLaren1,2, David Colville2,3

1Department of Clinical Physics and Bioengineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, North-East Sector, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 3College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, 
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

 
P046 Phase 3 Clinical Trial on the Efficacy of [18F]florbetaben PET for diagnosis of cardiac AL amyloidosis
Iris Hardewig1, Ute Hegenbart2, Paco Bravo3, Pablo Garcia-Pavia4, Norman Koglin1, Andrew Stephens1, Ashutosh Wechalekar5

1Life Molecular Imaging GmbH, Berlin, Germany. 2Amyloidosis Center University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. 4Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain. 5National Amyloidosis Center, London, United Kingdom

P054 FDG-PET-CT in suspected vasculitis: How to evaluate clinical usefulness
Faisal Naeem, Vineet Pant, Jose Chanyungco, Sadia Salam, Amrith Chamnan, Sobhan Vinjamuri

Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

P055 [18F]FDG Dose and Image Quality: Digital vs. Analogue PET-CT – Initial Experience from SQCCCRC, 
Oman
Khulood Al-Riyami, Sofiullah Abubakar, Anjali Jain, HajarAl Marzouqi, NouraAl Makhmari, NaemaAl Maymani, 
Asiya Al Busaidi, Sharjeel Usmani

SQCCCRC, Muscat, Oman

P057 Optimizing Diagnostic Algorithms for Lobular Breast Cancer: Rethinking the Utility of [18F]FDG 
PET-CT for Evaluation of Bone metastasis
Sharjeel Usmani, Khulood Al Riyami, Anjali Jain, Vipin Jayakrishnan, Adil Aljarrah alajmi, Paul Dumasig
Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Centre, Muscat, Oman

P058 Assessment of Residual Tumor After Resection of high grade Glioma: [68Ga]Ga-PSMA PET-CT a imaging biomarkers for target delineation prior to radiotherapy
Sharjeel Usmani, Khulood Al Riyami Al Riyami, Syed Furqan Hashmi, Anjali Jain, Zamzam AlHashami
Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Center, Muscat, Oman

P066 Case report: Practical experience and lessons learned from treating a radioiodine ablation patient 
who dialyses at home
Ceri Copestake1, Emily Brown1, Philip Anderson1, Gus Zabierek2

1Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 2RRPPS, Birmingham, United Kingdom

P067 Let’s Get Physical: Why half-life matters in the development of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals
Nathaniel Scott1,2, Ben Fongenie2, Dan Stevens2

1Blue Earth Diagnostics, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2Blue Earth Therapeutics, Oxford, United Kingdom

P069 Investigation of methods of management of radiopharmaceutical extravasation
Chris Pickles, David Wallace, Oludolapo Adesanya, Lisa Rowley

University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom

P081 Utilising multiple pass CBM acquisition for image optimisation in FDG PET-CT
Ian Armstrong

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

P083 Developing and Performing an Acceptance Testing Programme for a Novel 12-headed CZT 
SPECT-CT system
Jed Freeman, William Morton

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS FT, Sunderland, United Kingdom

P088 Incidence of Abnormal Measured GFR in Patients with High Muscle Mass and Low Estimated GFR
Lauren Conway, Neil Heraghty

King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

P092 Comparison of Cu liner with Cu dipper for dose calibrator measurements of 123I
Tom Sanderson, Fiona Pearce

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom

P102 Identification and removal of radioactive contamination – quantitative verification of an existing mode
Katarzyna Tallat-Szczotka1,2, Patrick Begley1

1University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom. 2King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

P103 A Survey of Staff Perceptions of a skin dose of 500mSv from either a 99mTc source or an alpha source
Bill Thomson1, Joseph O’Brien1, Joseph Burminston1, Jenny Thompson-Peters1, Jilly Croasdale2

1City Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 2University Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom

P104 Online patient guidance for VQ imaging – UK wide inconsistencies
Carolyn Paterson1,2, Rebecca Gillen1,2,3, Alison Bolster1,2,4

1Department of Clinical Physics and Bioengineering, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, North East Sector, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 3Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 4College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

 

 

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