Event Details

Date:    Friday, 26 June 2015
Time:    7.00 am - 10.30 am
Venue: GE Healthcare - 572 Swan St, Burnley VIC
RSVP:   Friday, 19 June 2015
Each attendee will receive a certificate of attendance for lodgement for College CPD points.

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Dr. Robert Princenthal - GE Prostate Cancer EventDr Robert Princenthal
Robert Princenthal, MD is a board certified radiologist with more than 25 years of expertise in diagnostic medical imaging. Dr. Princenthal is president and founding partner of Rolling Oaks Radiology, a network of outpatient imaging centers in Ventura County, California, where he has been instrumental in bringing some of the most advanced, cancer detecting technologies to patients and referring physicians. Dr. Princenthal also serves as the medical co-director for RadNet’s Prostate MRI Program.

Currently, Dr. Princenthal is a consultant to GE Healthcare to improve their prostate MRI 3T imaging protocols.

Exploring Imaging Options for
Prostate Cancer

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Due to the overwhelming interest around prostate imaging and the many pathways for diagnosis and staging within the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine community, GE Healthcare is delighted to invite you to an exclusive seminar.  Dr. Robert Princenthal from the US and Associate Professor Michael Hofman from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre will present this multi-modality event to explore and share advanced prostate imaging techniques for MR, PET/CT and PET/MR, followed by an MR workshop on ways to better investigate the prostate.

Agenda

07:00 am   Welcome and introduction
07:05 am   Exploring imaging options for Prostate cancer
                    and developing outstanding 3T MRI imaging protocols:
                  - How and why to perform MP prostate MRI at 3T
                    - Why prostate MRI makes sense to enhance cancer screening
                    and detection in conjunction with PSA
08:00 am   Gallium PSMA overview, clinical findings and
                    PET/MR future with Gallium PSMA
08:35 am   Break & refreshments
08:50 am   Developing outstanding 3T MRI imaging protocols
                    and open case review:
                    - Evaluation of the post op patient for cancer recurrence detection,
                    post radiation and ADT effects on the gland
                    - Interesting clinical case review, discussions and Q&A
10:30 am   Program concludes

Dr. Michael Hofman - GE Prostate Cancer EventAssoc Prof Michael Hofman
Associate Professor Michael Hofman is a nuclear medicine physician and Director of Training for Molecular Imaging at the Centre for Cancer Imaging at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia's only public hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research and education. He previously completed a PET/CT and research fellowship at Guy's & St Thomas' in London.

He has an interest in training the next generation of nuclear medicine specialists and currently serves as the RACP representative on the Joint Specialty Advisory Committee in Nuclear Medicine and is an associate editor for several international journals.

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