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BNMS Awards & Prize Winners 2025
 
President's Medal 2025
Dr Mary Prescott
Retired

 

 

Norman Veall 2025
Mr Nigel Williams
University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire

 

 

Radiographers, Technologists & Nurses Group Award 2025
Dr Christopher Mayes
Royal Liverpool University Hospital

 

Roll of Honour 2025
Dr Maggie Cooper
King's College London

 

 

 

POSTER PRIZES SPONSORED BY Light Medical
 
3rd Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Masoumeh Hakiminejad, Haseeb Ahmed, Nicolas Eftychiu, Celia Mills, Fahim Ul Hassan
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom
No. P096 “Optimization of Follow-up In Long-term Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients In Remission”

 

2nd Poster Prize of £200 awarded to:
Chelsey Turner1, Jim McGarvie1, Ewan McKay2, Shahid Rasul3
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, United Kingdom. 
2Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Ayr, Ayr, United Kingdom. 3Department of Medical Imaging, University Hospital Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, United Kingdom
No. P010 “Identification of Cardiac Amyloidosis on Bone Scintigraphy – a streamlined approach”

 
1st Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Shuaib Siddiqui, Misha Kathirgamanathan, Fahim Ul-Hassan
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom
No. P093 “Retrospective Analysis of Sentinel Lymph Node Identification in Melanoma of the Head and Neck by Single-Photon Emission Computerised Tomography (SPECT-CT)”
  
RTNG PRIZES SPONSORED BY CURIUM
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Aimee Pearson, Stefan Voo, Catherine Scott, Rahul Murali, Hamid Ullah, Chaithanya Theja, 
Saima Riaz, Ramya Balachandar, Dimitris Priftakis, Arash Latifoltojar, Rayjanah Allie, Jamshed Bomanji, Irfan Kayani
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. P103 “The feasibility of Ultra-Fast [18F]FDG PET-CT imaging in paediatric patients: Image quality and quantitative PET parameters in a second-generation digital 32cm PET scanner”

 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Hannah Chandler1,2,3, Carolina Rodrigues1,4
 1London Imaging Academy, London, United Kingdom.  2London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.  3University of The West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. 4Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. 34 “The impact of the practice educator role in Nuclear Medicine”

  
RADIOPHARMACY ORAL PRIZE SPONSORED BY ALLIANCE MEDICAL
 
£250 awarded to:
Tom Haywood, Maddie Woodward, Erin Holland, Robert Annewandter, Mahmoud Bakr, Tom Wallace Smith, Talmon Firestone
Astral Systems, Bristol, United Kingdom
No. 43 “Domestic Fusion Production of Therapeutic Isotopes”
 
 
SAUL HERTZ RADIOTHERAPY PRIZES SPONSORED BY AN ANONYMOUS DONOR
 
 
Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Lucy McAreavey-Wraith, April-Louise Smith, Catherine J Scott, Lily Carnegie-Peake, Cameron Anderson, Athira Roy, Saima Riaz, Dimitris Priftakis, Stefan Voo, Jamshed Bomanji, John Dickson
University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
No. P065 “Setting up the Phase I CITADEL-123 Trial: A Physicist’s Perspective”

 
Oral Prize of £250 awarded to:
Kate Houghton, Chloe Bowen, Kuldip Nijran, Kate Murphy, Christina Fotopoulou, Mitesh Naik, Sairah Khan
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. 47 “Early experiences of intraperitoneal α-emitting radionuclide therapy (Radspherin®) in patients with primary advanced epithelial cancer with peritoneal metastasis; a physicist’s perspective”

  
ORAL PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Jesus Perdomo Lampignano1, Mary-Frances Dempsey2, Alice Nicol3, Sai Han2,4, Natasha E. Fullerton1,4
1Neuroradiology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2West of Scotland PET Centre, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 3Nuclear Medicine, Department of Clinical Physics and Bioengineering, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 4University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
No. 76 “Optimising Epilepsy Imaging: The Impact of Revised Epilepsy PET-CT Protocols in Glasgow”

 
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Minal Padden-Modi1,2,3, Peter Dutey-Magni3,  Matthew D. Blackledge1,2, Hoda Abdel-Aty1,2, 
Iain Murray1,2, Jan Taprogge1,2, Nabil Hujairi2, Nina Tunariu1,2, Nick James1,2
1Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom. 2Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom. 3MRC Clinical Trials Unit University College London, London, United Kingdom
No. 14 “Whole Body Diffusion Weighted MRI (WB-DWMRI) and PSMA PET-CT in [177Lu]-PSMA-Therapy for metastatic prostate cancer (mPC): A Retrospective Single Centre Study.”
 
 
1st Prize of £300 + President’s Cup awarded to:
Kirsty Jackson, Chris Pickles, Olu Adesanya, Lisa Rowley
University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom
No. 32 “A Technologist’s guide for the practical implementation of an intraoperative PET-CT specimen scanner”

 
YOUNG INVESTIGATORS PRIZE SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
Clinical Prize £250 awarded to:
Albert Ang1, Shady AbdElMoneim1,2, Sharjeel Usmani1,3, Glenn Woolley1, Najeeb Ahmed1
1Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, United Kingdom, 2Hull York Medical School, Hull, United Kingdom. 3Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Centre, Muscat, Oman
No. 8 “Imaging Differences Between Sarcoidosis and Lymphoma on [18F]FDG PET-CT: A  Retrospective Analysis”

Scientific Prize £250 awarded to:
Darah Swinscoe, Gregory James, Stephen Dainty
Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
No. 11 “Modelling a 10R Schott vial in Geant4 for skin dose calculations”

 
STUDENT PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
Joint 2nd Prize of £150 awarded to:
Yan Jie Lee1, Xina Huang1, Mary-Frances Dempsey1,2, Sai Han1,2
1University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2West of Scotland PET-CT Centre, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
No P048 - “Clinical impact of [18F]FDG PET-CT in the management of patients with infection”

 
Joint 2nd Prize of £150 awarded to:
Anggraini Rizkita, Ivandi Pratama
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
No P121 – “Enhancing Correction Accuracy in Bremsstrahlung Dosimetry for 90Y-Ibritumomab Tiuxetan Therapy Using Machine Learning-Based Algorithms”
 
 
1st Prize of £300  awarded to:
Zahra Haq, Fawziah Alorfi, Dimitrios Priftakis, Stefan Voo, Karen De Souza
University College London, London, United Kingdom
No 17 – “[18F]FDG PET as early prognosticator of response to treatment: spying on hormone receptor positive breast cancer under CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment with serial [18F]FDG PET imaging reveals patterns of response and failure”

 
BNMS Lee Jenkins Memorial Prizes sponsored by Hermes
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Daniel Sinclair1,2, Anne-Marie Stapleton1
1Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, United Kingdom. 2King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
No. 49 “Impact of Intensity Threshold Structure Segmentation Methodology upon Yttrium-90 Bremsstrahlung SPECT-CT Dosimetry”
 
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Alastair Gemmell1,2,3, Colin Brown1,2, Surajit Ray4, Sandy Small1,2
1Nuclear Medicine, Gartnavel General Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2Department of Clinical Physics & Bioengineering, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
No. P082 “Investigation of the Tumour Sink Effect in 99mTc EDDA/HYNIC-TOC quantitative SPECT-CT”

 

Preclinical Prize Sponsored by MD Catapult
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Amin Choudhury, Paul Adlem, Dave Barker, Samuel Rawlinson
Cyclife Aquila Nuclear, Winchester, United Kingdom
No. P166 “Conceptual design for [212Pb] Hotcells for UK Clinical trials, a Medical Radionuclide Innovation Programme (MRIP) Project"

 

Physics Prize Sponsored by IPEM
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Jan Walukiewicz1,2, Peter Julyan1, Jose Anton-Rodriguez1
1The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom. 2The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
No. 05 “Theory and validation of a novel sampling method for SUV-peak calculation"

 

Ignac Fogelman Memorial Prize
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Anuj Jain
Vijaya Diagnostic Centre, Hyderabad, India
No. P004 “Imaging spectrum of intraarticular osteoid osteoma: Role of F18 bone scan"

 

Muriel Buxton-Thomas Memorial Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Rahul Murali, Hamid Ullah, Aimee Pearson, Chaithanya Theja, Saima Riaz, Ramya Balachandar, 
Irfan Kayani, Dimitris Priftakis, Arash Latifoltojar, Rayjanah Allie, Jamshed Bomanji, Stefan Vöö
University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
No. 58 “Does Hyperglycaemia in Fasting Condition Affect the Incidence of False-Negative [18F]FDG PET-CT Studies in Patients Evaluated for Cancer? The Effect of Blood Glucose Level on [18F]FDG Uptake in Normal Organs and Tumours: a Systematic Review and Single Centre Experience"

 

POSTERS AWARDED CERTIFICATES OF MERIT 2025

P004 Imaging spectrum of intraarticular osteoid osteoma: Role of F-18 bone scan
Anuj Jain
Vijaya Diagnostic Centre, Hyderabad, India
 
P010 Identification of Cardiac Amyloidosis on Bone Scintigraphy – a streamlined approach
Chelsey Turner1, Jim McGarvie1, Ewan McKay2, Shahid Rasul3
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, United Kingdom. 
2Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Ayr, Ayr, United Kingdom. 3Department of Medical Imaging, University Hospital Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, United Kingdom
 
P034 Can CT texture analysis assist in the identification of parathyroid adenomas?
 Lauren Yeung, Faisal Naeem, Vineet Pant, Amrith Chamnan, Ian Hufton, Sadia Salam, Sobhan Vinjamuri
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
P053 When the clot thickens: Decoding perfusion defects in V/Q Scans
 Anna Hughes1, Alec Wolinski1, Mariyah Selmi1, Min Yen Wong1, Peter Strouhal1,2
1Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, United Kingdom. 2Alliance Medical, Warwick, United Kingdom
 
P062 Coordination is key! A research nuclear medicine technologist’s perspective of implementing complex radionuclide therapy trials
Edith Gallagher
Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, United Kingdom
 
P065 Setting up the Phase I CITADEL-123 Trial: A Physicist’s Perspective
 Lucy McAreavey-Wraith, April-Louise Smith, Catherine J Scott, Lily Carnegie-Peake, Cameron Anderson, 
Athira Roy, Saima Riaz, Dimitris Priftakis, Stefan Voo, Jamshed Bomanji, John Dickson
 University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
 
P076 The value of multi-tracer multimodality imaging in the diagnosis of atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APS): an educational case report and literature review
Chamani Punchihewa1, Nondini Fithraat2, Eleonora Manca1, Nitasha Singh1, Sara Amro1, Sabina Dizdarevic1,2
1University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom. 2Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom
 
P103 The feasibility of Ultra-Fast [18F]FDG PET-CT imaging in paediatric patients: Image quality and quantitative PET parameters in a second-generation digital 32cm PET scanner
Aimee Pearson, Stefan Voo, Catherine Scott, Rahul Murali, Hamid Ullah, Chaithanya Theja, Saima Riaz, Ramya Balachandar, Dimitris Priftakis, Arash Latifoltojar, Rayjanah Allie, Jamshed Bomanji, Irfan Kayani

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

 
P107 Supporting the nuclear medicine Technologist workforce - A local experience of developing pathways into the profession
Damion Bailey, Richard Fernandez, Eugene Lee

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

P131 Quality Control Protocols for Adjuvant CT: The Case for a Bespoke Approach
Carol Mattison1, Rabia Ahmed1, Rithika Jain2, Elizabeth Bennett1

1North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Carlisle, United Kingdom. 2North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Whitehaven, United Kingdom

P143 System-specific quality control limits for improved gamma camera uniformity artefact detection
David Roddy1, Andrew Robinson1, Andrew Fenwick1, Kelley Ferreira1,2,3, Daniel Deidda1, Ana Denis-Bacelar1, 
James Scuffham1,4

1National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom. 2Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 3Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom. 4Department of Medical Physics, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, United Kingdom

P161 Establishing radiation protection advice for a colostrum harvesting patient post lung perfusion 
imaging
Jonathan Price
 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Southend-On Sea, United Kingdom

P165 Sterility testing of an automatic infusion system for extension of multi-dose vial lifespan
Alastair Gemmell1,2, Sylvain Eschenlauer2,3, Jolene Richardson1,2, Scott Smith1,2, Jonathan Owens2,3, 
Sandy Small1,2
1West of Scotland PET Centre, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2Department of Clinical Physics & Bioengineering, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 3Radiopharmaceutical Production Unit, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

 

 

 

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