The 2018 ACPSEM QLD annual branch meeting will be held on Friday, December 14th in conjunction with the PRIMPS 26, at Biomedical Technology Services (450 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill). The AGM will be held between 3:00 and 3:30 PM, and is open to all members of the branch. PRIMPS will be run directly after, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM. Please RSVP your attendance to either (or both!) events to branch chair Scott Crowe, and indicate if you are interested in presenting work.
The 2017 ACPSEM QLD Branch AGM will be held in conjunction with the PRIMPS 23, at Biomedical Technology Services (450 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill). The AGM will be held between 4:30 and 5:30 PM, and is open to all members of the branch. PRIMPS will be run directly after, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM. Please RSVP your attendance to either (or both!) events to branch secretary Emma Spelleken, and indicate if you are interested in presenting work. This information is also available in the flyer.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital hosted the 27th ACPSEM Queensland branch symposium.
The day started with the 4th ACPSEMQ winter school, with DIMPs learning about recent innovations in mammography and ROMPs learning about image guided radiation therapy. Speakers included Tale Liiv, Elaine Ryan, Jack Svenson, Michael Bleazard, Samuel Peet, Patrick O’Connor, John Baines and Davide Fontanarosa, and our sponsors Hologic Australia. The school programs were organised by Mikey Bernado, Scott Crowe and Nancy Yu; and were attended by more than 50 physicists.
The symposium began after lunch with an invited presentation on mammography by Dr. Thomas Lloyd (on behalf of Dr. Janet Gray). Proffered presentations were given by Kyle Ewart, Hang Min, Emma Whittle, Scott Crowe and Michael Roche.
The 27th annual ACPSEM QLD Branch Winter School and Symposium will be held on September 29th at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. The winter school topic for the diagnostic imaging medical physicists will be recent innovations in mammography. The winter school topic for the radiation oncology medical physicists will be image guided radiotherapy. The symposium will consist of an invited presentation from BreastScreen Queensland State Radiologist Dr. Janet Gray, providing a radiologist’s perspective on recent innovations in mammography; and profferred presentations.
If you wish to attend the winter school and/or symposium; or present on recent activity in your department (an excellent opportunity for those presenting at EPSM later this year!), please RSVP with either Mikey Bernardo (DIMP) or Scott Crowe (ROMP).
A flyer for the event is available here; and programs for the winter schools are also available for DIMPs and ROMPs.
PRIMPS 22 will be held at ROC Redlands, Bayside Business Park, 16-24 Weippin Street, Cleveland on the 26th May, from 3 to 5 PM. If you are interested in attending or making a presentation, please RSVP your attendance to Rebecca Murry. The flyer for the event is available here.
The Progress and Research in Medical Physics Series turned 21 on the 3rd March. The meeting, held at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, featured presentations from:
There was a impressive turnout with students from the QUT Masters course; and clinical physicists coming from the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba and even Rockhampton (over 500 km away) Discussions continued over drinks at the Normanby.
PRIMPS 21 will be held on the 3rd March, from 3-5PM, at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Education Centre. We already have registered presentations from RBWH and BTS, but it would be great to get updates from as many centres as possible. So if you have been doing some work and want to share it with your peers or get a discussion started, please let us know when you RSVP your attendance with the branch secretary, Emma Spelleken. The flyer for the event is available here.
After PRIMPS we will be migrating to the Normanby Hotel for some lively scientific discussion.
The Department of Nuclear Medicine, RBWH, has approval, and is in the planning stage, for an expansion of our TGA licensed Radiopharmaceutical laboratory that supplies PET tracers to a number of PET facilities in Queensland. This expansion includes a new Clean Room for sterile manufacture, additional hot cells and synthesis modules.
In 2016 we added 68Ga-Dotatate and 68Ga-PSMA-HBED to FDG to the compounds we distribute to other hospitals, as well as supporting a substantial increase of the in-house demand. A number of new tracers also came online for clinical and research use, including 18F-GE-180 (neuroinflammation), 18F-GE216 (Alzheimer’s disease), nucleophilic 18F-DOPA, 68Ga-pentixafor (overexpression of CXCR4 receptors).
Our State-wide 177Lu-TATE therapy service expanded by 50%, increasing the availability of radionuclide therapy to patients suffering neuroendocrine tumours. This coupled with production of 177Lu-PSMA617 for prostate therapy should lead to a very exciting 2017.
Our Research Radiochemist, Melissa Latter (pictured), won a very prestigious Churchill Fellowship. She will be visiting overseas centres to gather expertise which will allow us to establish a premier manufacturing and training site for translational radiopharmaceutical science. We also have 4 staff starting on their TEAP journey; Soren Lummis and Dominique Scott in Radiopharmaceutical Science and Orrie Dancewicz and Shaun Patford in the DIMP program.
The ACPSEM QLD Branch AGM will once again be combining with the final PRIMPS of the year in 2016. This year, PRIMPS 20 and the AGM will be held at GO Lounge, Greenslopes, on Friday December 2nd. See the attached flyer for the event timetable.
The 2016 ACPSEM QLD branch AGM will run from 2 – 2:30pm, and will include election of the 2017 ACPSEM QLD branch committee. All members are invited to attend the AGM. The AGM will be followed by PRIMPS 20, 2:30 – 3:30pm.
All members and guests will have free, exclusive access to all board games at GO Lounge between 2 – 5pm. Before you land on Mayfair one too many times, the festivities will continue on to Stones Corner Hotel.
We hope you can all join us to help celebrate another year of medical physics.
Please RSVP presentations and attendance to Bess Sutherland at secretary@acpsemq.org.au.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital hosted the 26th ACPSEM Queensland branch symposium.
The day started with the 3rd ACPSEMQ winter school, on the use of MRI-PET in radiotherapy treatment planning. The school was facilitated by local experts Katrina Biggerstaff, George McGill, and Emma Inness, in addition to invited speakers A/Prof. Gary Liney and Prof. Peter Greer (visiting from New South Wales). A cohort of 30 interested physicists were split into 3 groups, provided with radiation phantoms, and asked to describe what tests would be required to allow MRI-PET planning to be performed safely.
The symposium began after lunch with the invited speakers Gary Liney and Peter Greer. The proferred presentations started after afternoon tea, with Tanya Kairn awarded the Symposium prize for best presentation, Luke Webb awarded the best student presentation prize, and Orrie Dancewicz winning the ‘best kept to time’ prize. Other presenters included Scott Crowe, Patrick O’Connor, Catherine Jones, Deborah Tout and Andrew Fielding.
Scott Crowe received the 4th Bob Fitchew award, for his contributions to the college and his research track record.
