TECHNOLOGIST NEWS

Registration

You may register for the meeting and reserve your hotel through our website at www.snm.org/am. The Society asks that all attendees who need hotel accommodations reserve their rooms through us. By participating in our housing arrangements, you give us the buying power to negotiate lower rates not only for hotels but also for the use of the convention center, which helps keep your registration fees low. We also use this buying power to provide free (as in, really free, not just tacked on to your room rate as some associations have been known to do) shuttle service.

Exhibit Hall

You won’t want to miss an opportunity to see and talk with vendors from the companies that are developing the newest innovations in your field. Our exhibit hall will be open Saturday from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm during the welcome reception, Sunday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Monday and Tuesday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

With over 140 vendors coming, you may want to develop a strategic plan for your trip to the exhibit hall. Be sure that you don’t miss a vendor that you particularly want to see or wind up lost in an area devoted to technologies that aren’t relevant to your practice. The Virtual Exhibit Hall, online now in the Annual Meeting section of our Web site (www.snm.org/am), lets you walk through a virtual version of our exhibit space. Click on any booth and get details about the company.

The Virtual Exhibit Hall is a great way to plan your trip to the real exhibit hall. Of course, just wandering around is also fun. For anyone who can’t make it to the meeting, the Virtual Exhibit Hall is the next best thing. For those who can come, be sure to attend the welcome reception, hosted by our exhibitors, Saturday 6:00 to 8:00 pm. And don’t miss Amersham Health’s Happy Hour on Monday from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.

Sessions of Special Interest to Technologists

A technologist certification exam review and mock certification exam class will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 19–20. Designed as a review for students and technologists preparing to sit for the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB) examination, the study session is not included in the meeting registration fee. You may register for this class when you register for the meeting.

Three joint plenary sessions are scheduled in addition to the Technologist Section plenary on Tuesday morning. Monday’s joint plenary session will include a keynote address by Valentin Fuster, MD, and Carlo M. Croce, MD, on “New Directions in Coronary Artery Disease and Cancer.”

A brunch for technologists attending their first SNM annual meeting will be held Sunday morning from 10:30 to 11:30 am. The brunch will feature a presentation on the educational and social programs available at the annual meeting that should be very useful in getting the most out of your trip to Philadelphia. The Technologist Section leaders usually drop by the First-Timer’s Brunch so this is a great place to get to meet the people that are guiding your organization as well as other techs.

Be sure to plan to attend the Technologist Section business meeting and scientific awards presentation at the end of the technologist educational program on Tuesday afternoon. SNMTS President Lyn Mehlberg, BS, CNMT, FSNMTS, will report on the current status and future direction of the SNMTS. Other topics will include the presentation of the Technologist Section awards and the installation of Nanci Burchell, CNMT, FSNMTS, as SNMTS President.

After the business meeting, what else? … a party, of course. A band, DJ, dancing, great food, and a final opportunity to socialize with your fellow techs makes the annual Technologist Section party a great way to wind up the annual meeting. Beginning at 8:30 pm Tuesday night at the Philadelphia Marriott, the tech party is sponsored by all exhibitors and planned with care by the SNM Meetings Department.

The annual meeting will end, as it has for the past 27 years, with the Annual Meeting Highlights Lecture presented by Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD, of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. On Wednesday morning, Dr. Wagner will share his views of the papers presented at the annual meeting and announce his choice for the Image of the Year.

Multiple Navigational Schemes

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Additional New and Redesigned Areas

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• Rebuilt CE online examinations process

• Revamped committee, councils, and centers of excellence pages

• Minutes from governance meetings (available to members only)

• All-new Scientific Abstracts Archive with search features

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• Redesigned, easily navigated Job Bank

• Overhauled Calendar with search function

Flexibility

The new website’s strongest feature is its flexibility. The cutting-edge tools and web applications we use in the background to run snm.org allow an infinite number of manipulations, revamps, and build-ons. We can keep improving and modifying the website and its features to stay ahead of the curve for years to come.

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