PET Home Study
NEW! - PET Champions Series' Home Study CD --
available now!



 
2004 WorkshopSchedule
DallasMarch 6th
Speakers: Lowe, Peller
MiamiMarch 13th
Speakers: Siegel, Bridwell
New Jersey April 3rd
Speakers: Wahl, Bridwell
MemphisApril 24th
Speakers: Siegel, Peller
PhiladelphiaMay 1st
Speakers: Macapinlac, Agress
Los Angeles May 15th
Speakers: Coleman, Peller
Baltimore/Wash.DC May 22nd
Speakers: Lowe, Bridwell
St. Louis September 11th
Speakers: Waxman, Kipper
Boston September 18th
Speakers: Coleman, Peller
Seattle October 9th
Speakers: Wahl, Ziffer
Tampa October 16th
Speakers: Lowe, Peller
Cincinnati November 6th
Speakers: Siegel, Peller
Minneapolis November 20th
Speakers: Waxman, Ziffer
New York, NY January 22, 2005
Speakers: Macapinlac, Agress
 
Our Distinguished Presenters

Workshops designed and delivered by these leading PET Champions:

Harry Agress, MD
Hackensack University Medical Ctr
Robert Bridwell, MD
Alpha Imaging LLC

R. Edward Coleman, MD
Duke University Medical Center

Michael S. Kipper, MD
Pacific Imaging & Treatment Center
Val Lowe, MD
Mayo Clinic
Homer Macapinlac, MD
University of Texas,
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Patrick Peller, MD
Woodburn Nuclear Medicine &
Metro Region PET Center

Barry Siegel, MD
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Richard Wahl, MD
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
Alan Waxman, MD
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Jack Ziffer, MD, PhD
Baptist Hospital of Miami



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:
  Establish a network of expert peers
  Market PET effectively in the professional environment
  Build patient volumes through high-quality service delivery


The Champions Series offers four learning opportunities for you to increase awareness of PET’s value within your local community, and maximize your PET imaging service capabilities.
  Face-to-Face, Case-by-Case, Regional Workshops
  Champions Series Breakfasts
  Case-by-Case Home Study Program
  PET Champions Online Town Hall Meetings


Face-To-Face Regional Workshops
Meet face-to-face with leading PET experts at 14 different regional workshops. Champions Series workshops use a fun, highly interactive environment with remote voting technology to explore the key factors and critical knowledge required to establish and maintain a successful PET practice. Get valuable insight on how to identify artifacts, avoid common pitfalls, and understand the importance of quantification and correlation with anatomic imaging. Plus confidentially assess your current skill level against the room via remote voting group reports.

This full-day educational program includes the
following:

     Building a Successful PET Practice:
  Building patient volumes
  Delivering a high quality service
  Educating your community
 

Managing financial drivers

 
Clinical and Volume Growth Considerations for Lung, Lymphoma, Colorectal and Breast Cancer.
  Promoting PET through core knowledge and case review
 
Advanced Applications, Pitfalls, Artifacts and Limitations of PET in Lung, Lymphoma, Colorectal and Breast Cancer.
  Promoting PET with credibility and accuracy
 
Additional Indications

  
Champions' Breakfasts
The Cardinal Health 2004 PET Champions' Series Breakfasts are designed for you to network with expert peers and discuss the current state of clinical PET. Refine your thinking by talking face-to-face with a PET Champion in a small group discussion. No formal program will be presented. This is an opportunity for informal conversation and best practice sharing.
 
 

 
  Case-by-Case Home Study Program
Refine your skills by reading cases with a leading PET Champion using highly-interactive learning tools that allow you to study at your own pace and convenience. This tutorial includes:
  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 CME or 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.
  Technical Notes
from PET Champions Series experts on current hot topics.
   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 case review 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 representative or request one online.


Champions’ Online Town Hall Meetings
A vehicle that allows you to validate your ideas and learn interactively by talking online with experts in the field.


CE Details
Cardinal Health is pleased to provide continuing CE opportunity for PET Champions Series participants:
     Up to five (5) CE VOICE credits will be available to 2004 regional workshop participants.
  Up to 30 VOICE credits are available through the New Home Study CD Program.
  Up to 30 ACCME Category 1 CME credits are available through the New Home Study CD Program..


The 2004 PET Champions Series is a special feature of
the PET Foundations program from Cardinal Health.

 
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