During the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of 1983 the BNMS Secretary reported that council had decided to set up Travelling Scholarships with the sum of £3,000 which it had been agreed at last year’s Annual General Meeting should be set aside to further Nuclear Medicine.

The proposal is to make these awards annually and that the recipients of the awards should report on their experiences at the following Annual Meeting, or through Nuclear Medicine Communications.

BNMS Travelling Fellowship Award Winners

2017        Dr Amit Parekh (Southmead Hospital, Bristol)     

The society has agreed to award £1000 to support a two week observorship at the Memorial S19oan Ketting Cancer Centre in New York, USA

2016        Not awarded                                                               

2015        Not awarded                                                               

2014        Elizabeth Uglow (Barts Health NHS trust)             

The society has agreed to award £1000 to visit to the European Conference of Radiology 2014 in Vienna.

2013         Not awarded                                                               

2012         Dr Alexis Corrigan (University of Bath)                   

Awarded £1,000 to travel to University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, PET-CT fellowship

2012         Dr Jennifer Davidson (Southampton)                     

Awarded £1,000 to travel to University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland in respect of PET-CT

2012         Dr Chen Low (Birmingham)                                      

Awarded £1,000 to travel to Massachusetts General Hospital International Visiting Fellowship

2011         Dr Ruth Macpherson (Churchill Hospital, Oxford)     

Awarded £1,000 visit the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA where she would be exposed to new techniques particularly those utilizing Pet tracers.

2010         Dr Chirag Patel (Churchill Hospital, Oxford)          

Awarded £1,000 to visit Dr Sam Gambhir’s Stanford University.

2009          Not awarded                                                               

2008          Not awarded                                                         

2007          Dr H Bashir (Canterbury)                                           

Awarded £1,500

2006          Dr V Warby (Royal Free)                                      

Awarded £1,500

2006          Dr A Scarsbrook (John Radcliffe)                         

Awarded £1,500

2005          Mr J Reid                                                             

Technologist Chair, to attend the SNM meeting in Toronto allocating some of the travelling fellowship to the trip. Total Awarded £500.

2004          Dr Patrick Fielding (University of Wales)                   

Awarded £1,500 – a 6th year trainee to enable him to attend a one week intensive course on PET at the University of California Los Angeles

2003          Dr John Dickson (Royal Free)                                 

Awarded £1,200 to visit Ghent, primary research interest quantitative brain imaging

2003          Dr Jonathan Harris (Manchester Royal Infirmary) 

Awarded £200 towards his visit to Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.

2002          Dr James Anderson (Ninewells Hospital)                  

Awarded him £1,500 to gain experience of PET imaging by visiting UCSC Stanford Hospital and VA Hospital Palo Alto, USA. 

2001          Dr Rakesh Ganatra                                               

Enabled him to visit Guys and St Thomas, Southampton and Free Hospital of Amsterdam to observe isotope imaging, therapy and PET.

2000          Not awarded                                                         

1999          Not awarded                                                         

1998          Dr Maggie Cooper                                                

Awarded £1,200 towards her trip to visit China to carry out research into the radiolabelling of peptides targeted to somatostatin and somatostatin-type receptors. 

1997           Not awarded                                                         

1996           Dr Balan                                                                

1995           Dr Rebecca Stringer (Royal Liverpool Hospital)   

Awarded £1,000 in order to develop her interest in the technique of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Dr Stringer would be visiting centres in Belgium and Rotterdam.

1994           Sarah Allen (Guy’s Hospital)                                 

Awarded £600

1994           Alice Cluckie (King’s College)                                

Awarded £1,000

1993           Dr Gacinovic (Yugoslavia)                                     

Awarded £1,800 to work and train at the Middlesex Hospital

1992            Dr P Jeffry (Lecturer Radiological Sciences, UMDS) 

Awarded £1,100

1992            Dr A Notghi (Senior Registrar, Birmingham)          

Awarded £810

1992            Dr P Ryan (Senior Registrar, Guy’s Hospital)        

Awarded £730

1992            Miss B Ellis (PHD Student, Chelsea School of Pharmacy) 

Awarded £355   

1991            Dr R Corbett (Royal Marsden Hospital                   

Awarded £700

1991            Dr M J O’Doherty (St Thomas’ Hospital)                 

Awarded £700

1991            Dr Q Siraj (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Rawlpindi, Pakistan) 

Awarded £900

1991             Mr J Watkinson (Guy’s Hospital)                             

Awarded £700

1990             Not awarded                                                            

1989             Dr C H Green (University of East Anglia)                

Awarded £1,000

1989             Dr M L Hall (Inst. Of Nuclear Medicine, UCL and Middlesex School of Medicine) 

Awarded £1,000

1989             Dr J Moyes (Royal Marsden Hospital)                     

Awarded £500

1988             Not awarded                                                             

1987             Dr Khalil (Groby Road Hospital, Leicester)              

Proposed to visit Boston, JSA for a period of 10 days.

1986             Dr D Campos Costa                                                 

Awarded £1,000

1986             Miss Patricia Wright                                                 

Awarded £1,000

1986             Dr Khalil                                                                    

Awarded £500

1985             Not awarded                                                             

1984             Dr Wyeth                                                                   

Awarded £500

1984             Dr M J Nimmo                                                           

Awarded £500

1984             Dr A J B McEwan                                                      

Awarded £1,250.00 towards the cost of his proposed visit to the United States

1983             Miss A Ritson                                                            

To enable her to study the labelling of monoclonal antibodies at the University of Kentucky.

Changes over time

In 1996 the Honorary Secretary noted that it had been decided to change one of the rules for the travelling fellowship, namely that members would have to be members for twelve months in order to be eligible for an award.

In 2005, in an effort to encourage colleagues to apply for these fellowships, the Hon Secretary proposed that they be open to Associate Members who have been members for one full year.

In 2001, it had been drawn to our attention that there was discrimination in the application criteria i.e. under 35 years of age, it was agreed that this be removed.