Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee Report to NPSS AdCom

1. Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee Report to NPSS AdCom • Charles Watson • October 25, 2008

2. NMISC actions • 3 NMISC motions are on the November ballot for TABARC; TAB in Feb 09: • Increase IEEE Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award to $1500 • Increase The Edward J Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award to $3000 • Rename the YI award in honor of Bruce Hasegawa • Sub-Committe Chairs/Officers • NSS/MIC Oversight: Tom Lewellen to replace Craig Woody • AdCom Representative: Tom Lewellen to replace Ron Jaszczak • Awards/Fellows: Anna Celler to replace Paul Kinahan • Communications: Ron Huesman to remain • Secretary/Nominations: Steve Meikle to remain • A summary of the Oversight Committee’s work on NSS/MIC site selection for 2012, prepared by Craig Woody and Tom Lewellen, was circulated to NMISC for comment • NMISC annual meeting was held Oct 23, 2008; will report on this at next AdCom

3. NMISC elections • Five new members have been elected to NMISC (thanks to Steve Meikle) • Ron Jaszczak (Duke University) • Irene Buvat (CNRS, France) • Kris Inewski (Redlen Technologies, Canada) • Georges El Fakhri (Massachusetts General Hospital) • Ray Muzic (Case Western Reserve University)

4. MIC status • 2007, Honolulu (Benjamin Tsui, General Chair; Eric Frey, MIC Program Chair) • Defer to Craig Woody for financial status • $246k out of $1236k total budget returned to IEEE • 2008, Dresden (Uwe Bratzler, General Chair; Wolfgang Enghardt, MIC Program Chair) • Defer to Uwe Bratzler for status • 2100 abstract submissions (total) from nearly 60 countries, 207 rejected (9.9%) • Over 2000 registered • 10 special-focus workshops on site • 2 satellite workshops with IEEE technical co-sponsorship: • Joint Workshop on Detector Development (DESY, Hamburg), Oct 16 – 17 • Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich), Oct 27 – 28 • 2009, Orlando (Richard Lanza, General Chair; Ramsey Badawi, MIC Program Chair) • Defer to Dick Lanza for details • The MIC deputy chair will be Craig Levin • Martin Tornai will be co-chair for MIC workshops. • Will submit an R13 to NIBIB for support of MIC 2009, limit is $10,000.

5. MIC status continued • 2010, Knoxville (Ron Keyser, General Chair; David Townsend, MIC Program Chair) • First meeting of the Organizing Committee was held Thurs Oct 23 • Defer to Ron Keyser for details • The contract for the convention center and the hotels has been signed and a deposit given • The convention center deposit covered by the City of Knoxville – to be repayed with advance from IEEE • 2011 (David Townsend, General Chair) • Will be in Valencia, Spain (Spain’s third largest city, on the eastern Mediterranean coast) • Valencia Conference Center and the neighboring Sorollo and Hilton Hotels • Defer to Craig Woody for additional details • 2012 (Tom Lewellen, General Chair) • Considered several sites on the West coast of North America • Albuquerque, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane, Anaheim, Reno or San Diego • Four additional site visits made • Anaheim was chosen by vote of Oversight Committee

6. To be done • Reconcile RITC and NMISTC bylaws: • The term of office of the Chairperson of the Oversight Subcommittee shall be one year, but the Chairperson may be re-appointed to the same position for no more than one additional term. • Provide NMISTC guidance to Oversight sub-Committee on location and growth of NSS/MIC