30th Annual Meeting and Educational Symposium Set for October 3-5, 2008 in Omaha, NE

MVC 2008 Annual Meeting

October 3-5, 2008

Omaha , NE

Friday PM

10/03/08            

5-7   PM             Registration and Ice Breaker
7-8   PM            MVCTS Executive Board Meeting
8-10 PM            MVC Council Meeting

Saturday AM

10/04/08            
0700-0800         MVCTS Sub-Chapter Presidents
                        Breakfast
0700-0745         Registration & Continental
                        Breakfast
0745-0800         Welcome, Announcements, and
                        Introductions
0800-0900         Lymphoma Update – A Clinician’s
                        View
0900-1000         The Role of PET/CT in Head & 
                        Neck Cancer
1000-1030         AM Break
1030-1130         MI Research and Development – 
                        What’s New & How Soon Will It
                        Impact You? 
1130-1200         Abstracts
1200-1300         Lunch and MVC Business Meeting

Saturday PM 

10/04/08         PM Session I – Physician/Scientist:
1300-1400      Reimbursement – The New Reality
1400-1500      Reducing Risk Due to Poor          
                     Communication & Documentation
1500-1530      Break
1530-1630      Legal Risks in Daily
                     Practice  
                             
                       PM Session II – Technologists:
1300-1500     Mock Scenario – Responding to an 
                    Emergency Involving RAM
1500-1530     Break
1530-1630     Reinventing Yourself - Alternative 
                    Career Paths  (RSO, HP, Educator, 
                    Corporate Rep., Researcher)

                      PM Session III – Students:
1300-1500    Welcome and Introduction
                   Icebreaker
                   Alphabet Soup – What Do All Those
                   Letters Mean?
                   What Employers Want
1500-1530    Break
1530-1630    Training vs. Real World Reality
                   Past, Present, and Future or Where 
                   Are We Going From Here?

Sunday AM

  10/05/08 
0700-0745         Continental Breakfast
0745-0800         Announcements and Introductions
0800-1000         Imaging with the Experts – Panel 
                        Discussion
                        Camera QC, Tips and Current
                        Techniques, Errors And Artifacts, 
                         Interpretation, Correlative 
                         Imaging   
1000-1015         Break                                     
1015-1115         USP 797 – Impact on Nuclear 
                        Medicine and Pharmacy 
                        Practice        
1115-1215         Wide Beam Reconstruction
1215-1230         Closing and Final 
                        Announcements