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Mark your calendar: 11-12 Feb 2012: Singapore Radiological Society & College of Radiologists, Singapore Annual Scientific Meeting: Breast & Thoracic Imaging. CoR members will enjoy the same rates as Members of the Singapore radiology bodies.
21 Feb 2012: 1st Asian Symposium on Breast Density Venue: UMMC, Kuala Lumpur organised by UMMC, BIIJ and UMCRI.
CoR members Prof Dr KH Ng and Prof Zulfiqar Muhamed Annuar are amongst the speakers at this inaugural event. Go to Eventspage to download the flyer.
30 Mar – 1 April 2012: 2012 CoR Annual Scientific Meeting, Equatorial Hotel, Penang.
Member Details Update- Please update the College of Radiology Secretariat with your latest contact details, so that information can be sent to you more efficiently via email!
From The President's Desk - Click here to read the message from the President.
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Seminar on Health Sector Reform and Financial Sustainability, Kuala Lumpur – 11 Dec 2011 The Ministry of Health, Malaysia in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, organised a 1-day seminar on Health Sector Reform and Financial Sustainability at the Institute for Health Management in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. The 2 speakers were Prof Peter Berman, Ph D (Public Policy) from Harvard School of Public Health and Paul Shaw, PhD (Economics). Paul Shaw is currently the Program Advisor of the World Bank Institute’s Flagship Program on Health Sector Reform and Financial Sustainability. Both speakers have had vast experience in their respective areas. The Ministry of Health has been assessing and reviewing various initiatives aimed at strengthening the national health sector in order to address emerging challenges and issues whilst aligning it with the country’s aspiration to become a high income economy by 2020.
College of Radiology’s Breast Seminar Goes East to Kota Kinabalu – 10-11 Dec 2011 In line with the College of Radiology’s (CoR) maxim to elevate and maintain the quality of mammograms and their interpretation, the annual breast meeting primarily to provide Malaysian radiologists, radiographers and medical physicists an opportunity to update and network went East, specifically to Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, East Malaysia. There were 190 participants, nearly double that expected and for the radiographers’ hands-on workshops held in Hospital Likas and Hospital Queen Elizabeth II, there were 55 per hospital. Read more here
The Eleventh Asian & Oceanic Society of Paediatric Radiology (AOSPR) Congress in conjunction with the 3rd National Congress of Indonesian Society of Paediatric Radiology (PDSRAI), Bali, Indonesia – 10-12 Nov 2011 The 11th Asian & Oceanic Society of Paediatric Radiology (AOSPR) Congress in conjunction with the 3rd National Congress of Indonesian Society of Paediatric Radiology (PDSRAI) was held from 10-12 November 2011 in Kartika Plaza Discovery Hotel, Bali, Indonesia. The theme for the congress was “Update in Paediatric Radiology: Hand-in-Hand Facing the Future”. The congress was well attended by local participants together with a considerable number from overseas, including 5 delegates from Malaysia. Four posters were presented by the Malaysian delegates in the scientific meeting.
The AOSR Council Meets at the Sixty-Seventh Korean Congress of Radiology, Seoul, Korea – 27-29 Oct 2011 The Asian Oceanian Congress of Radiology (AOSR) Executive Council held a meeting facilitated and hosted by the Korean Society of Radiology (KSR) at the 67th Korean Congress of Radiology (KCR2011) in late October 2011. The Exco met for 3 hours on 27th Oct 2011. The next big event of the AOSR will be the 2012 AOCR in Sydney, 29 Aug to 2 Sep 2012.
This year’s KCR 2011 was an outstanding success with at least 70% of the congress being conducted in English. There were 2,629 participants and 59 exhibitors at the Trade Exhibition. In addition, Dr Jianping Dai (China), Dr Antonio Rondo (Italy), Dr Philippe Devred (France) and Dr Michael Forsting (Germany) were conferred as KSR Honorary Members. Congratulations to the organising committee of the KCR 2011 and their president, Dr Dong Ik Kim.
Dr Chang Keng Wee is the new Master of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia and 14 new CoR members inducted, Kuala Lumpur - 22 Sep 2011 Congratulations to Dr Chang Keng Wee on being elected as the new Master of the Academy of Medicine (AMM) at the annual general meeting of the AMM on the evening 22 Sep 2011 in the Medical Academies of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Congratulations to the new College of Radiology members inducted at the Conferment & Induction Ceremony held in conjunction with the opening ceremony of the 9th Ministry of Health- Academy of Medicine of Malaysia Scientific Meeting (MOH-AMM).
Heartiest Congratulations to CoR Member - Dr CR Beena Devi!! The College of Radiology again has the great pleasure of congratulating Dr. Beena Devi for being selected for the Paul Calabresi award for 2011 by the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). SIOG is a professional oncology society based in Genolier, Switzerland championing the course of treatment of cancer in the elderly. This year its 11th annual meeting will be held on 4-5 of October in Paris, France. During this auspicious occasion a prominent world expert in the field of Geriatric Oncology will receive the Paul Calabresi Award, named after its first president: Dr Paul Calabresi.
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) awarded Dr Beena Devi the BEST POSTER in the category of Prevention & Screening during the 35th ESMO Congress, Milan, Italy held from 8-12th October 2010. Dr Beena presented a poster on “Early Detection Program Focusing on Primary and Secondary Health Care Providers Achieved Major and Sustainable Reduction of Late Stage Diagnosis of Breast Cancer”.
Philips iU22 xMATRIX for Premium Performance Ultrasound, Kuala Lumpur – 29 July 2011 The radiology community was “wow-ed” at a presentation of the iU22 xMATRIX at KL Hilton, Kuala Lumpur. Ultrasound technology was show cased at its best when Dr Nitin Chaubal from Thane Ultrasound Centre, India (and also President of the Indian Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology), shared his experience using this state of the art ultrasound system.
Radiation Protection Seminar in conjunction with CoR 2011 Annual General Meeting, Kuching, Sarawak - 28 May 2011 The seminar was attended by 34 participants held at Four Points by Sheraton, Kuching Sarawak. Speakers were Prof Dr Ng Kwan Hoong, a medical physicist from University Malaya and Dr Noriah Jamal who is the National Coordinator for IAEA with Agensi Nuklear Malaysia, Bangi. The theme was “Good Practice Guidelines”. After tea break, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) commenced with a quorum of 23 members. Read more here
Seminar on Oncologic Imaging, Medical Academies Building, Kuala Lumpur – 17 May 2011 The College of Radiology (CoR) organised a one day seminar on oncologic imaging, featuring Dr Chaan Ng from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. There were 98 participants at the seminar, made up of radiologists, post graduate radiology trainees and radiographers. Topics were on CT Urography, Staging of Renal Cancer, Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer and Multimodality Imaging for Metastatic Melanoma. Dr Zaleha Abdul Manaf spoke on Imaging of Common Paediatric Tumours and Assoc Prof Dr Abdul Jalil Nordin focussed on PET-CT.
Heartiest Congratulations to CoR Member - Prof Dr KH Ng The Singapore Medical Association (SMA) presented an award to Prof Dr KH Ng on the 14th May 2011 in their Annual Dinner held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore. Prof Ng was recognised for his major contributions to the “Effective Medical Writing” Series published in the Singapore Medical Journal for the past 2½ years.
Radiology: Beyond Image Interpretation, Kuala Lumpur – 9-10 April 2011 Hosting the Radiological Society of North America speakers from the RSNA Visiting Professor Programme, boasting a wide range of topics which included “Maximising Effectiveness” and a track on “Radiology Means Business” as well as an inaugural quiz for Radiology trainees – the Dato’ Abdul Samad Sakijan Challenge Trophy were amongst some of the highlights in the 2011 College of Radiology’s (CoR) Annual Scientific Meeting. The event was officiated by Yg Bhg Dr Zaridah Hambali, Director of Academic Development, Ministry of Higher Education.
EIT Breast –A painless way for early detection of breast cancer? Scientists/medical physicists are in the process of conducting clinical studies to solve quite a few issues regarding the use of impedance measurements in the breasts. What is EIT? Can it be used to detect early breast cancer?
How Safe is Radiofrequency? It is time to find out what RF can do FOR rather than TO people! Radiology Malaysia conducts an online with Prof C-K Chou, PhD, a multiple award-winning scientist and currently Motorola Chief EME Scientist, and the Director of Corporate EME Research Laboratory, responsible for RF product safety.
Is Maintaining Hope in the Face of Despair Possible? Hope cannot exist without despair and vice versa. How can one therefore re-ignite hope when all seems pointless or death and suffering seems imminent?
Tai Chi Chi Kung, Healing and Cancer? “….Tai Chi complements Chi Kung. Chi Kung provides the foundation like a tree's roots while Tai Chi is like the trunk of the tree…”
One-On-One with Prof Dr John R. Cameron: His Mission - Making a Difference to Society! Prof Dr John R. Cameron, a medical physicist who has devoted his life to the application of physics in the medical world.
Up Close with the Father of Spiral CT – Prof Dr Willi A. Kalender Willi Kalender pioneered spiral (volumetric) Computed Tomography (CT)catalysing the explosive development of multislice CT scanners.
9-15 Sep 2012: Australia and Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development Workshop (ACORD) 2012 Workshop, Sunshine Coast, Australia. Held every 2 years since 2004, the ACORD Workshop is designed as a week-long intensive training program focused on the essentials of clinical trials design for cancer researchers in all oncology subspecialties from Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Up to 60 participants are selected through a competitive application process to join in the Workshop. Participants represent a wide range of oncology backgrounds, with specialities including Medical, Surgical and Radiation Oncology, Haematology and Palliative Care. Each participant receives individual guidance and assistance from the faculty with the protocols they are selected to develop at the Workshop, and work collaboratively with their international peers.
Fellowships covering fees, travel expenses, accommodation and meals are available to successful applicants. Applications are open online at www.acordworkshop.org.au from 7 November 2011 through to 27 February 2012.
AIRP’s Radiologic Pathologic Correlation Course is available for booking online now: The American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP) is now a program of the American College of Radiology (ACR). www.airp.org
Continuing Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Education programme, UMMC, Malaysia is now available. http://radiology.um.edu.my/cbie The Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM)– get the latest updates on programmes www.asum.com.au The Asian-Oceanian Textbook of Radiology - find out more at www.asianradiology.com
EDIPS Download is the European Congress of Radiology’s “free education” highly valued e-learning tool - enabling visitors to download PowerPoint Presentations of lectures given at the last ECR Meeting in March 2006. Over 530 presentations are currently available for download free of charge. This new tool complements ECR’s established e-learning tools EPOS™, eECR and EURORAD.
The Imaging of Tropical Diseases by Philip Palmer & Maurice Reeder has been made available by its authors and the publisher, Springer, for distribution in a DVD form to national member societies of the International Society of Radiology and to their individual members. CoR is a member society of the ISR.
Please visit the Events Calendar page for the complete listing.
”Seeing with Heart” ”We are the CoRe of Quality”
Dr Evelyn Ho Radiology Malaysia Editor January, 2012
14 Feb 2011: Pause and Pulse - Phase 4 of the Image Gently Campaign focuses on diagnostic fluoroscopic procedures. www.imagegently.org
Check it out now for materials with regard justification for procedures, selection of the appropriate examination, using techniques to reduce dose during x-rays and pulsing the x-ray in fluoroscopy as dose-saving measures.
If you are a CoR member, you have been granted free corresponding membership to the ESR. The CoR submits a list of the membership to the ESR periodically to enable them to register you as a corresponding member for free. Please inform us if you have not been contacted by the ESR or have just joined as a CoR member.
The benefits of ESR membership are as follows:
-free electronic access to European Radiology - free electronic access to EURORAD - free electronic access to EPOS™, the Electronic Presentation Online System - free electronic access to eECR - free electronic access to EDIPS Download, ECR's Digital Preview System - all activities of the European School of Radiology (ESOR) are offered exclusively to members of the ESR - free access to the online job forum
International Society of Radiology Imaging of Tropical Diseases DVD
This book developed into DVD form has been made available by its authors (Philip Palmer and Maurice Reeder) and publisher (Springer) free of charge to members of the ISR. If you are a CoR member, access this DVD at www.isradiology.org
Other Resources Available from the International Society of Radiology (ISR): 1. GoRad: Monthly Compendium of practice-related articles selected from 16 leading radiology journals 2. Virtual Congress 3.Other educational contents and reference materials
The BIIJ is a new peer-reviewed open access e journal. It is a multidisciplinary journal covering imaging, nuclear medicine, RT, informatics, molecular imaging, medical physics, biomedical engineering etc. Contributions are welcome and strongly encouraged.
IAEA Calls for Enhanced Radiation Protection of Patients
Advances in medical imaging techniques are allowing doctors to detect hidden diseases and make ever more accurate diagnoses. But radiation safety experts at the IAEA say that overuse of high-tech scanning procedures may unnecessarily expose patients to increased radiation levels. Click here for video
For information about the Safe Use of ionising radiation for patients and health professionals, go to: http://rpop.iaea.org
Ministry of Health, Malaysia’s MyHealth Portal
A service provided under the MSC Malaysia Telehealth Flagship Programme
Quality assurance is crucial in Radiology and particularly so in mammography where poor quality films can mean a higher miss rate for breast cancers. The results of the CoR’s survey of QA in Mammography in Malaysia can be viewed in a poster that summarises the salient points.
This is where you will have your say in Radiology Malaysia. Whether it is for advice, or just an expression of opinion, the Radiology Malaysia Forum is the place to be!
Breast Health Info Centre
The Art of Being Breast Aware: It is Everyone’s Business to be Breast Aware: This is a handy book to learn the basics of being breast aware. This 2nd edition (2009) has updates to relevant sections and a new chapter. Contact the College of Radiology Secretariat for a copy of the book. The book is also available at the Breast Cancer Welfare Association.
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Radiation Protection Seminar in conjunction with CoR 2011 Annual General Meeting, Kuching, Sarawak - 28 May 2011
Is Maintaining Hope in the Face of Despair Possible?
Up Close with the Father of Spiral CT – Prof Dr Willi A. Kalender
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) – the ultimate in imaging?
FAQ on Common Radiological Procedures
