PET Foundations

PET ChampionsSM

PET Home Study CD

Home Study

Now Available! - Cardinal Health's PET Home Study CD - new Cardiology Edition, which offers 7 VOICE credits.

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Expert In Your Office

PET Expert

Participate in a one-on-one web confer-ence with a leading PET expert in the convenience of your own office.

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Our Experts

Personalized web conferences are delivered by these leading PET Champions:

Harry Agress, Jr. , MD
Hackensack University Medical Center

Tim Bateman, MD
Mid America Heart Institute
University of Missouri — Kansas City

Kevin Berger, MD
Michigan State University
Medical Center

Todd Blodgett, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center

Jackie Brunetti, MD
Holy Name Hospital — NJ

Michael Kipper, MD
Pacific Imaging and Treatment Center

Homer Macapinlac, MD
University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Patrick Peller, MD
Mayo Clinic — Minnesota

Daniel Silverman, MD, PhD
UCLA Medical Center

Barry Siegel, MD
Washington University
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

Alan Waxman, MD
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Jack Ziffer, MD, PhD
Baptist Hospital of Miami

Educational Programs for Referring Physicians

Become more confident in your ability to successfully grow patient volumes and improve the quality of the PET services you provide by participating in a unique educational program offered through the PET Champions Series.

As a special feature of PET Foundations, the PET Champions Series gives PET interpreting physicians the opportunity to learn from the country’s top PET experts. These leading PET physicians can assist you in building a successful PET practice by helping you to:

  • Continue to build your PET skills with case reviews, pitfalls, and normal variants of various, reimbursable indications
  • Build patient volumes through high-quality service delivery
  • Market PET effectively in the professional environment

Cardinal Health brings the experts to you through unique learning opportunities offered through the PET Champions Series. These multi-format programs help you to increase awareness of PET's value within your local community, and maximize your PET imaging service capabilities.

Expert in Your Office

Bring an expert into your practice to discuss a specific area of your choice, selected from a list of timely, relevant topics. Personalized education is delivered through a highly interactive and effective web conference format in the convenience of your own conference room or office.

Clinical PET Reviews

  • PET in Lung Cancer
  • PET in Lymphoma
  • PET in Breast Cancer
  • PET in Head/Neck Cancer
  • PET in Cardiology
  • PET in Melanoma
  • PET in Thyroid Cancer
  • PET in Gynecologic Cancer
  • PET in Esophageal Cancer

Special PET Topics

  • Introduction to PET
  • PET in Radiation Planning
  • Quantification/SUVs
  • Quality Report Writing
  • Diabetic Patient Prep

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Case-by-Case Home Study Program

Refine your skills by reading cases with leading PET Champions using highly-interactive learning tools that allow you to study at your own pace and convenience.  This 3-part series provides a comprehensive review of the benefits of PET in Oncology, Neurology, and Cardiology.

New! Announcing the new PET Champions Series Home Study CD - Cardiology edition - featuring:

Oncology Home Study
  • Quantitative and clinical information combined with visual analysis - designed to emphasize understanding of why and when PET is appropriate in the evaluation of patients with heart disease.
  • Well developed case studies - Compare images obtained for the evaluation of both perfusion and viability of tissue.
  • Expert Contributors - edited by Timothy Bateman, M.D. and includes comprehensive technical notes the nation's leading cardiologists and PET experts in such areas as the role of PET in Cardiology, the benefits of quantitative analysis and understanding reimbursement.
  • Continuing Education Credits - CD includes up to 7 VOICE credits. For your copy, contact your local Cardinal Health PET Sales Specialist or request the Home Study CD - Cardiology Edition online.

PET Champions Series Home Study CD - Oncology Edition featuring:

Oncology Home Study
  • Affordable, Practical Continuing Education Credits — With over 60 case reviews and technical notes, this unique CD-based learning environment can be worth up to 30 CE VOICE credits for physicians and technologists.
  • Expert Contributors — edited by R. Edward Coleman, M.D., with all cases and related discussions contributed by the Champions Series directors.
  • Case Review — for real-life decision making and expert commentary on your personal decisions.
  • Random Image Review — to test quick recognition of abnormalities.
  • Literature Reference — for all cases with Quick Links to online abstracts.
  • Each oncology case review on our Home Study CD includes decision making as it pertains to patient presentation, correlative images, PET images, image interpretation, other findings, patient management, case summary and references. For your copy, contact your local Cardinal Health PET Sales Specialist or request the Home Study CD - Oncology Edition online.

PET Champions Series Home Study CD - Neurology edition - featuring:

Neurology Home Study
  • Quantitative and clinical information combined with visual analysis — designed to emphasize understanding of why and when PET is appropriate in the evaluation of patients with cognitive impairment, as well as honing brain PET interpretive skills for specifically identifying Alzheimer's Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.
  • Well developed case studies — Compare images obtained for the evaluation of cognitive/behavioral symptoms with comprehensive medical histories, for conditions as common as Alzheimer's Disease and depression, to those as rare as progressive supranuclear palsy or Hallervorden-Spatz Disease.
  • Expert Contributors — edited by Daniel H. Silverman, M.D., and including best practice tips by PET experts in such areas as the role of PET in Neurology, building a PET Neurology practice and understanding reimbursement.
  • Continuing Education Credits — CD includes up to 5 VOICE credits. For your copy, contact your local Cardinal Health PET Sales Specialist or request the Home Study CD - Neurology Edition online.

CE Details

Cardinal Health is pleased to provide continuing CE opportunity for PET Champions Series participants:

  • Up to 5 VOICE credits are available through the PET Champions Series Home Study CD - Neurology Edition.
  • Up to 7 VOICE credits are available through the PET Champions Series Home Study CD - Cardiology Edition.
  • Up to 30 VOICE credits are available through the PET Champions Series Home Study CD - Oncology Edition.
  • Additional CE program are available through our CE solutions program.

The PET Champions Series is a special feature of the PET Foundations program from Cardinal Health.

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