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| 2012 College of Radiology (CoR) and Malaysian Society of Radiographers (MSR) Joint Scientific Meeting, Penang 30 Mar-1 Apr 2012 By Dr Abdul Rahman Mohamad The Annual Scientific Meeting of the CoR was held in Equatorial Hotel, Penang and for the first time, it was a joint meeting with the Malaysian Society of Radiographers. There was a whopping 401 participants at the meeting. The faculty consisted of foreign and local speakers. There was also a Fellowship/Masters (Radiology) tutorial series. The pre-congress programme consisted of seminars in Head & Neck, Paediatrics, Musculoskeletal, Body Imaging and Interventional Radiology. |
| CoR Meet the Expert Event Proves Exciting: Image Fusion and Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound – The New Tools in Interventional Ultrasound, Kuala Lumpur 18 March 2012 By Dr Evelyn Ho The College of Radiology organised a “Meet the Expert” event at Sunway Putra Hotel, Kuala Lumpur where Dr Christian Pállson Nolsøe from Denmark spoke on Image Fusion and Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound – The New Tools in Interventional Ultrasound. Dr Nolsøe also did a live demonstration of how he used volume navigation image fusion and GPS on the LOGIQ® E9 ultrasound unit. |
| “A Novel Approach of Gastrointestinal Transit Investigation Using SPECT and MR Image Fusion” Scientific Paper Wins Certificate of Merit at the ECR 2012, Vienna March 2012 By Dr Evelyn Ho Malaysian medical physicist, Chai-Hong Yeong, reading her doctorate in medical physics at the Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur has won a Certificate of Merit for the scientific paper submitted to the 2012 European Congress of Radiology for which she was lead author. The scientific paper was “A Novel Approach of Gastrointestinal Transit Investigation Using SPECT and MR Image Fusion”. Congratulations to Chai-Hong and her co-authors |
| First Asian Symposium on Breast Density, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur 21 Feb 2012 By Dr Evelyn Ho The University Malaya Cancer Research Institute (UMCRi) in collaboration with the Biomedical Imaging Department of the University of Malaya organised the First Asian Symposium on Breast Density. Despite scientific publications showing the link between dense breasts on mammograms and the increased risk of breast cancer over the years (from 1976), it was only as recent as 2010 before it was widely accepted as an independent risk factor for breast cancer. |
| The 21st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Singapore Radiological Society and the College of Radiologists, Singapore – Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. 11-12 Feb 2012 By Dr Evelyn Ho The theme of the meeting was “Breast and Thoracic Imaging: Where do we go from here?”. This meeting was well attended with an invited faculty of local and international speakers. Prof Shih-Chang Wang delivered the FY Khoo Lecture. His lecture entitled ‘Why Radiology Needs Philosophy” was intriguing with analogies made between philosophy and the practice of radiology. The meeting was preceded by a pre-congress workshop on Diagnostic Radiology Residency: Train the Trainers Workshop as well as breast and thoracic categorical sessions. Congratulations to Drs Richard Yeo and Gervais Wansaicheong and their organising committee on this successful meeting. |
| Seminar on Health Sector Reform and Financial Sustainability, Kuala Lumpur 11 Dec 2011 By Dr Evelyn Ho 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, PhD (Public Policy) from Harvard School of Public Health and Paul Shaw, PhD (Economics). |
| College of Radiology’s Breast Seminar Goes East to Kota Kinabalu 11-12 Dec 2011 By Dr Evelyn Ho & Jessie Fung 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, get training support 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.. |
| The 11th 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 By Assoc Prof Dr Azian Abdul Aziz The congress was well attended by local participants together with a considerable number from overseas, including 5 delegates from Malaysia. Four posters were presented from the Malaysian delegates. |
| The 67th Korean Congress of Radiology, Seoul, Korea & the AOSR Council Meets at the KCR2011 27-29 Oct 2011 By Dr Evelyn Ho 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. 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. |
| Dr Chang Keng Wee is the new Master of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 22 Sep 2011 By Dr Evelyn Ho Congratulations to Dr Chang Keng Wee on being elected as the new Master of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (AMM) at the annual general meeting of the AMM on the evening 22 Sep 2011 in the Medical Academies of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. |
| “Equity in Healthcare Unites the Nation”, 9th MOH-AMM Scientific Meeting, Kuala Lumpur 22-23 Sep 2011 By Dr Evelyn Ho The 9th Ministry of Health-Academy of Medicine of Malaysia Scientific Meeting was held in Medical Academies of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur from 22-23 September 2011. The theme was “Equity in Healthcare Unites the Nation”. |
| Announcement: Dr Beena Devi, the First Recipient of the Prestigious Paul Calabresi Award outside of Europe or the USA, Paris (France) 4-5 Oct 2011 The College of Radiology again congratulates 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. |
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