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BNMS Awards & Prize Winners 2026
 
President's Medal 2026
Prof Isky Gordon
Retired
Citation written and presented by Sabina Dizdarevic
 

 

Norman Veall 2026
Prof Andy Irwin
Singleton Hospital, Swansea
  

 

Radiographers, Technologists & Nurses Group Award 2026
Miss Carla Abreu
Perceptive Imaging
Citation written by Jo Weekes and presented by Monica Martins
 

 

Roll of Honour 2026
Dr Charlotte Fowler
St Thomas' Hospital
Citation written and presented by Sabina Dizdarevic
 

 

Honorary Member 2026
Dr John Buscombe
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust
Citation written and presented by Sabina Dizdarevic

 

 

Honorary Member 2026
Dr David Williams
Retired
Citation written and presented by Sabina Dizdarevic
 

 

POSTER PRIZES SPONSORED BY Light Medical
 
3rd Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Aaron Morjaria, Chaw Khine, Dipanjan Banerjee, Anna Ffrench-Constant, James Korolewicz, Amarnath Challapalli, Randeep Kulshrestha
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom
No. P076 “PSMA PET-CT: Added Value Over Conventional Imaging in Metastatic Prostate Cancer at low PSA levels”

 

2nd Poster Prize of £200 awarded to:
Nicole Finn, Armidita Jacob, Gary Cook
Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
No. P068 “Performing Dynamic [18F]DCFPyl PSMA PET Scans in Patients with Prostate Cancer Recurrence”

 
1st Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Jamie Grey
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom
No. P011 “Ready, Steady, Code! Using Generative AI for the Efficient Development of Bespoke Nuclear Medicine Teaching Tools”

  
RTNG PRIZES
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Joana Rodrigues1, Daniel McGowan1,2, Kevin Bradley1,3 
1Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 3Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
No. P112 “Optimising DaTscan Acquisition: Shorter Scans, Sharper Insights”

 

 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Lisa Brennan-McFarlane
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Truro, United Kingdom
No. 59 “Genitally Does it- Suitable Pain Relief in Sentinel Node Studies”
  
RADIOPHARMACY ORAL PRIZE SPONSORED BY ALLIANCE MEDICAL
 
£250 awarded to:
Hishar Hassan1, Muhamad Faiz Othman2, Nur Nadhira Jafperi2, Wan Hamirul Bahrin Wan Kamal3, Saifullizan Mohamad3, Anee Suryani Sued3, Siti Aminah Muhamad3, Hairil Rashmizal Abdul Razak4
1Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia. 2Universiti Teknologi MARA, Bandar Puncak Alam, Malaysia. 3Malaysian Nuclear Agency, Bangi, Malaysia. 4University of Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
No. 45 “In Vivo Biodistribution of [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-FAPI-46 in a FAP-negative Breast Cancer Model”

 
 
SAUL HERTZ RADIOTHERAPY PRIZES SPONSORED BY AN ANONYMOUS DONOR
 
 
Poster Prize of £100 awarded to:
Natalie Smith, James Ahlquist, Eve Passey
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
No. P023 “Success Rate of [131I]Sodium Iodide Therapy for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: A 15‑Year Retrospective Study”
 
 
Oral Prize of £250 awarded to:
Stefan Voo1, Jamshed Bomanji1, Scott Tagawa2, Neeraj Agarwal3, David Cade4, Oliver Sartor5
1University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. 2Weill Cornell, New York, USA. 3University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. 4Telix Pharmaceuticals, North Melbourne, Australia. 5LCMC Health, New Orleans, USA
No. 61 “ProstACT Global: A Phase 3 Study of [177Lu]Lu-rosopatamab Tetraxetanplus Standard of Care vs Standard of Care Alone in Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer”

 
  
ORAL PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Amy Bishop
Hywel Dda University Health Board, Haverfordwest, United Kingdom. Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
No. 25 “Outreach Methods to Engage Schools and Colleges: Experiences and Insights from a Rural Hospital”
 
 
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Vanessa Nadig1, Daniel Darian1, Josh Schaefferkoetter2, Jorge Cabello2, Paul Schleyer2
1Siemens Healthcare Limited, Camberley, United Kingdom. 2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Knoxville, USA
No. 43 “Organ Location and Associated Performance Metrics Across the aFOV in Patients Scanned on the Biograph Vision Quadra in High-sensitivity and Ultra-high-sensitivity Mode.”
 
 
1st Prize of £300 + President’s Cup awarded to:
Petros Fessas1, Karen Desouza1,2, Emma Spurrell2, Elisavet Papadimitraki1, Fharat Raja1, Rebecca Roylance1, Diego Ottaviani1, Joanna Franks3, Dibendu Betal3, Mahwash Babar3, Irene Athanasiou3, Massimiliano Cariati3, Neill Patani3,4, Sirwan Hadad3,2, Yusuf Kayani5, Darren Walls5, Catherine Scott5, Marilena Rega5, Mubarik Arshad5, Jamshed Bomanji5, Stefan Vöö5
1Cancer Division, Department of Oncology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), London, United Kingdom. 2Surgery and Cancer Integrated Clinical Service Unit, Whittington Health NHS Trust., London, United Kingdom. 3Department of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery, Women's Health Division, UCLH., London, United Kingdom. 4Institute of Women's Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 5Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCLH, London, United Kingdom
No. 63 “Ultra-low-dose FDG-PET Imaging in Pregnancy-associated Breast Cancer: Expanded UK Tertiary Centre Experience”

 
 
YOUNG INVESTIGATORS PRIZE SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
Clinical Prize £250 awarded to:
Amy Rose Sharkey1,2, Sofia Pereira3, Rizwan Farooq2, Teresa GuerreroUrbano1, Lewis Davies2, Laurence Vass2, Margaret Cooper2, Tim H Witney2, Gary Cook3
1Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. 2King's College London, London, United Kingdom. 3King's College London & Guy’s and St. Thomas’ PET Centre, London, United Kingdom
No. 13 “Improving Treatment Response Assessment in Head and Neck Cancer through [¹⁸F]FSPG PET Measurement of Cellular Redox Status”
 
Scientific Prize £250 awarded to:
Hajara Abdel-Majeed, Mohamed El-Sayed
University hospitals Birmingham NHS trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
No. 17 “The MAP-Check framework: A Novel Clinical Quality Assurance Framework for Detecting SPECT-CT Misalignment”

 
 
STUDENT PRIZES SPONSORED BY BNMS
 
3rd Prize of £100 awarded to:
Tengku Mohammad Yoshandi1,2, Hairil Abdul Razak1, Nick Stone3, James Davies4
1Medical Imaging Programme, Department of Health and Care Professions, Faculty of Health and Life Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom. 2Awal Bros University, Pekanbaru, Indonesia. 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Environment, Science, and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom. 4Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
No P103 - “The development of calibration curve of [18F]FDG using Gafchromic LD-V1 Film: A source-matched calibration approach”

 
 
2nd Prize of £200 awarded to:
Abigail Yun Hui Tan1, Leroy Akeru1, Aarushi Bahuguna1, Raaga Ritika Devabaktuni1, Mitesh Naik2
1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. 2Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
No 34 – “The role of [18F]FDG PET/CT in managing patients with suspected infective endocarditis: a retrospective study”

 
 
1st Prize of £300 awarded to:
Momna Arshad1, Chamani Punchihewa2, Patrick Begley2, Nitasha Singh2, Sara Amro2, Sabina Dizdarevic2
1Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom. 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
No 74 – “The clinical value of dual tracer multi-modality DaTSCAN and FDG-PET-CT imaging in the assessment of parkinsonism: a single centre study”

 
BNMS Lee Jenkins Memorial Prizes sponsored by Hermes
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Imogen Handford1, Darren Morgan1, Daniel McGowan1,2
1Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
No. 49 “Voxel-Based Dosimetry in 90Y SIRT: Effects of Reconstruction Parameters”

 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Kelley M. Ferreira1,2,3, Andrew P. Robinson3, Kevin M. Bradley4,1, Daniel R. McGowan1,2
1Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 3National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom. 4Wales Research and Diagnostic PET Imaging Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom
No. P058 “Specific Binding Ratio (SBR) in 123I-FP-CIT SPECT-CT – Can Uncertainty Help Diagnosis?”

 

Preclinical Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Maddie Woodward, Tom Haywood, Ram Mullur, Tom Wallace-Smith, Talmon Firestone
Astral Systems, Bristol, United Kingdom
No. 46 “Advancing the Domestic Production of Copper Radioisotopes, 64Cu and 67Cu, for Copper-based Radiopharmaceutical Development"

 

Physics Prize 
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Laurence Vass1, Amy Sharkey1, Sofia Periera1, Farooq Rizwan1, Teresa Guerrerourbano2, Lewis Davies1, Margaret Cooper1, Gary Cook1, Paul Marsden1, Tim Whitney1
1King's College London, London, United Kingdom. 2Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
No. 41 “Initial Evaluation of Compartment Models for Total-Body Dynamic  [18F]FSPG PET-CT Kinetics in Head and Neck Cancer Patients"

 

Ignac Fogelman Memorial Prize
 
Poster Prize of £300 awarded to:
Neil Lenus, Aaron Morjaria, Ayah Nawwar, Randeep Kulshrestha
Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, United Kingdom
No. P004 “SPECT-CT in Unilateral Condylar Hyperplasia. Clinical Outcomes Following Quantitative Assessment on SPECT-CT – A Local Audit"

Muriel Buxton-Thomas Memorial Prize
 
Oral Prize of £300 awarded to:
Brian Shuch1, Karolien Goffin2, Thomas Wagner3,4, Francesco Ceci5, Steven Raman1, Jeremie Calais1, Nicholas Donin1, Steven Joniau2, Maarten Albersen2, Axel Bex3, Miles Walkden3, Faiz Mumtaz3, Franco Orsi5, Genaro Musi5, Michael Ferris6, David Liu6
1UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. 2University Hospital of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. 3Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. 4Centre for Medical Imaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 5European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. 6Telix Pharmaceuticals, North Melbourne, Australia
No. 62 “Impact of 89Zr-girentuximab PET Versus Conventional Imaging on Clinical Decision-making in Patients with Indeterminate Renal Masses (ZIRCON-X)"

                                      

POSTERS AWARDED CERTIFICATES OF MERIT 2026

P011 Ready, Steady, Code! Using Generative AI for the Efficient Development of Bespoke Nuclear Medicine Teaching Tools
Jamie Grey
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, United Kingdom 
 
P028 Comparison of Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma versus Non-Microcarcinoma; Implications for Risk-based Management
Anjali Jain1, Avni Mittal2, Subhash kheruka1, Khulood Al Riyami1, 
Sharjeel Usmani1, Asiya Al Busaidi1, Rashid Al Sukaiti1
1Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Center. University Medical City, Muscat, Oman. 2University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom 
 
P037 Something to Digest: Optimising the Timings of Static 
Gastric Emptying Images
James Gray1, Lisa O'Brien2, Sameer Gangoli2, Waseem Mazrani2
1Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, United Kingdom. 2University 
Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Chichester, United Kingdom 
 
P041 Pelvic BCGitis Incidentally Identified on [18F]FDG PET-CT Following Treatment of Urothelial Carcinoma
Adam Andreani, Humayun Bashir, Gordon Ellul
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Canterbury, United Kingdom
 
P058 Specific Binding Ratio (SBR) in 123I-FP-CIT SPECT-CT – Can Uncertainty Help Diagnosis?
Kelley M. Ferreira1,2,3, Andrew P. Robinson3, Kevin M. Bradley4,1, Daniel 
R. McGowan1,2 
1Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 3National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom. 4Wales Research and Diagnostic PET Imaging Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom 
 
P059 [¹⁸F]-FDG PET-CT Spectrum of CNS Involvement and 
Neurolymphomatosis in Lymphoma: A Case Series
Saleh Kanaan, Saqib Mehmood, William Spiller, Banu Sathyamurthi, 
Sivakumar Muthu, Rakesh Sajjan
Nuclear Medicine Department, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom
 
P070 Do New Guidelines Enable a More Accurate 
Comparison of [18F]FDG PET-CT Features with Histopathology 
in Primary Breast Cancer?
Amy R Sharkey1,2, Hiu Yeung Chen2, Cynthia Funso-Fayomi1, Gary 
Cook2,3
1Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. 2School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom. 3London & Guy’s and St. Thomas’ PET Centre, London, United Kingdom 
 
P076 PSMA PET-CT: Added Value Over Conventional Imaging in Metastatic Prostate Cancer at low PSA levels
Aaron Morjaria, Chaw Khine, Dipanjan Banerjee, Anna Ffrench-Constant, 
James Korolewicz, Amarnath Challapalli, Randeep Kulshrestha 

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United 
Kingdom

 
P081 Utility of [18F]FDG-PET-CT to Predict Residual Disease in Post-Treatment Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer
Tom Tie-Gill, Deepak Subedi

NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 

 

P087 An Audit of Sentinel node SPECT-CT Reporting in Malignant Melanoma
Susan Geary, Sophie O'Dowd, Helena Paninho, Angus O'Connor

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom 

 

P092 [18F]FDG PET-CT Paediatric Scans Under General Anaesthetic: Practice Comparison Between GE Discovery 710 and Siemens Quadra Scanners
Indre Vaitkute, Giorgio Testanera, Charlotte Stopher, Armidita Jacob 

King's College London, London, United Kingdom 

 

P094 Retrospective, Single-centre Analysis of Individualised 
Contact Restrictions for [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE Patients
Valerie Gouldie, Darren Morgan, Daniel McGowan 
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

 

P127 Clinical Evaluation of Whole-body SPECT Bone Scans Using General-purpose Collimators with Reduced Acquisition Time
Jack Woodhead, Jonathan Taylor, Gayle Rutherford, Eleanor Lorenz
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom 

 

P141 Extravasation in PET-CT: A Retrospective of Three Years of Data
Tamar Willson 
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom 

 

P147 Comparable Performance Between AI-generated and CT 
Attenuation Maps for DaT SPECT Image Reconstructions
Zoe Wilson 1, Antti Sohlberg2, Johan Lilja2, Kevin Bradley1, Daniel McGowan1,3 
1Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2Hermes Medical Solutions, Stockholm, Sweden. 3University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 

 

 

 

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