International Conference on Radiation Medicine:
Clinical Applications and Innovative Approaches
KFSH&RC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 1-4, 2010

Scientific Program-at-a-Glance

  Sunday, 28 February 2010
  IAEA Course TRS 457: Joint KFSHRC/IAEA Advanced School on Dosimetry in Diagnostic Radiology and its Clinical Implementation
  (Venue: Prince Salman Auditorium)

Time

8:00 - 8:45

8:45 - 9:30

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:40

10:40 - 11:20

11:20 - 12:00

Lunch Break

13:30 -14:10

14:10 - 14:50

14:50 - 15:30

Coffee
Break

16:00 - 16:40

16:40 - 17:30

Course Title
Venue:
RC-304

C-L. Chapple:
Introduction to Radiological Dosimetry

A. Al-Haj:
Dosimetric Quantities and Units Introduction

Opening Ceremony

 

C.Hourdakis:
Dosimetry Framework, Formalism Including Uncertainties

A. Al-Haj:
Dosimetry for General Radiology and Clinical Uncertainty

C.Hourdakis:
Selection of Instrumentation

C.Hourdakis:
Dosimetry for Fluoroscopy - Basics

C-L. Chapple:
Patient Dose Audit Methods and Results

D. McLean:
DRL Determination

D. McLean:
Phantoms, Dose and Image Quality

Tutorial 1 [choose 1]
C.Hourdakis:
Uncertainty in Instrumentation Measurement
C-L. Chapple:
Uncertainty in Clinical Measurment

 DAY 1 (Monday, 01 March 2010)

TIME

7:00 AM

On-Site Registration
Venue:  Prince Salman Auditorium and Norh Tower Exhibition Hall

7:30–8:30AM

Breakfast
Venue:  North Tower Exhibition Hall

8:30–9:30AM

Session 1:  Continuing Education Courses (Part I)              

Course No

RO-CEC1

RO-CEC2

RO-CEC3

RO-CEC4

RO-CEC5

DI-CEC1

DI-CEC2

DI-CEC3

DI-CEC4

RBRP-CEC1

RM-CEC1

Course Title

IMRT IGRT

Breast

SRS

Brachy

IAEA TRS398

Adv Nuc Med Tech

Mol Func Imaging

IAEA
TRS457

Radiophar
maceuticals

Radiobiology and Radiation Protection

Int to Radiation
Medicine

Venue

Prince Salman Auditorium

Oncology Lecture Hall

Oncology Conference

RT Conf

PGC #7

PGC Auditorium

PGC1

RC-304

PGC 4

BMP Meeting Room

PGC 3

Coordinator

N. Al-Rajhi

M. Alshabanah

A. Hebshi

K. Balaraj

B. Moftah

O. Demirkaya

M.G. Sayed

A. Al-Haj

M. Vora

G. Alsbeih

R. Al-Mazrou

Chairperson

M. Al-Othman

M. Alassiri

A. Al-Zahrani

M. Mansour

K. Al-Yahia

A. Alenezi

M.G. Sayed

D. Mclean

S. Bouhumaid

M. Al-Johani

E. Mattar

 CEC Lecture 1
8 :30-9:00AM

G. Ibbott: Introduction, Practice Guidelines  and Evaluations for IMRT

A. Alsayed:
A Review of All Female Breast Cancer Cases from the Saudi Cancer Registry

W. Al-Najjar: Physics Aspects of SRS

F. Khan:
Brachytherapy: The Rules of Implantation

S. Huq:
Primary and Secondary Standards
of Air-kerma and Absorbed Dose to Water

O.Demirkaya:
Introduction to PET Physics and Image Formation in PET/CT

P. Kinahan: PET/CT and Molecular Imaging

A. Al-Haj:
Dosimetry in Interventional Radiology

M. Vora:
Overview of FDG
in PET

G. Alsbeih:
Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation

M. Abdelsattar: History of Medical
Imaging

 CEC Lecture 2
9:00-9:30AM

J. van Dyk: Image-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy (IGART)

D. Ajarem: Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Management: KFSH Experience

R. Mackie:
SRS with Tomotherapy

Z. Hassan:
Physics Aspects of Brachytherapy

S. Huq:
Cavity Theory and Absorbed Dose to Water Based
Formalism

R. Al Mazrou: Introduction to SPECT/CT Physics

A. Al-Sugair: Molecular Imaging with PET/CT: Clinical Overview

C.Hourdakis:
Calibration at an SSDL Facility

I. Al-Jammaz:
KFSH&RC
Experience

E.H. Zubizarreta:
IAEA QUATRO Program

A. Aboussekhra:
Introduction to Non-ionizing Radiation

9:30-10:00 AM

Coffee Break

10:00-10:30 AM

Session 2:   ICRM 2010 Opening Ceremony
Venue:  Prince Salman Auditorium
Prodcast to PGC Auditorium and Research Centre 1st Floor Lobby

Recitation of the Holy Quran:                 Dr. Mohammed Samman, Scientist, Research Centre

Opening Remarks:                                    Dr. Belal Moftah, Chairman, ICRM Organizing Committee

Keynote Speaker  Addresses:                 Prof. Herman Suit, Harvard Medical School, USA
                                   
                                                                                                                    
Welcome Addresses:                               H.E. Dr. Mohammed I. Al-Suwaiyel, President, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology

                                                                     H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al Kanhal, President, Saudi Food and Drug Authority

                                                                     H.E. Dr. Qasim Al-Qasabi, Chief Executive Director, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
                                                

 

10:40-12:10AM

Session 3:  Plenary State-of-Art Lectures A
Venue: Prince Salman Auditorium
Chairs: Dr. Adnan Ezzat and Prof. Gen. Kalaf Al-Moutaery

10:40-11:10AM

SoA Lecture 1
Title:  “Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm”: What Have We Learned?
Lecturer:  Prof.  Jake van Dyk

 11:10-11:40AM

SoA Lecture 2
Title:  “Particle Radiotherapy - First Clinical Based Particle Center in the World for Protons and Heavy Ions”
Lecturer:  Dr.  Marc Muenter

11:40-12:10 AM

SoA Lecture 3
Title:  “Why High Field MRI”
Lecturer:  Prof.  Freddy Stahlberg

 

12:10 -1:30 PM

Lunch Break (Al-Maather Cave Park) and  Prayer

Poster Viewing Session at North Tower Exhibition Hall
QUATRO Group Meeting
Coordinator: M. Al-Shabanah

 

Session 4: Parallel Sessions I

1:30-3:30PM

Session 4 A:  Radiation Oncology
Chairs: Dr. Yassir Bahadur and
Dr. Jazi Al-Mokhlef

Session 4 B:  Diagnostic Imaging
Chairs: Dr. Fadel Al-Fadley and
Dr. Hani Al-Sergani

Session 4 C:  Radiobiology & Radiation
Protection & Other Topics

Chairs: Dr. Saleh Al-Tayyar and Dr. Sameer Natto

Venue

Prince Salman Auditorium

Post-Graduate Centre Auditorium

Post-Graduate Centre (Class Room 1)

1:40 – 2:05 PM

RO Lecture 1
Title:  “Future Directions in Breast Radiation Oncology”
Lecturer:  Prof.  Alphonse Taghian

DI Lecture 1
Title:  “Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) and Optical
Coherence Tomography (OCT) with a Focus on Image Quality”
Lecturer:  Prof.  Stephen Balter

RRPO Lecture 1
Title:  “Radiation Induced Secondary Cancer”
Lecturer:  Prof. Herman Suit

2:05 – 2:30 PM

RO Lecture 2
Title:  “Clinical Based Technical Requirements for Beam Scanning”
Lecturer:  Prof. Jacob Flanz

DI Lecture 2
Title:  “The Role of Intravascular Ultrasound in the
Era of Drug-Eluting Stents”
Lecturer:  Prof.  Massoud Leesar

RRPO Lecture 2
Title:  “Obstetric Ultrasound, Are You Sure It Is
Safe? – Current Evidence and Guidelines”
Lecturer:  Prof. Gail ter Haar

2:30 – 2:55 PM

RO Lecture 3
Title:  “Image-Guided Radiation Therapy: Benefits and Limitations”
Lecturer:  Prof.  Faiz Khan

DI Lecture 3
Title: “Isotopes in Medicine”
Lecturer: Prof. Gerd Beyer

RRPO Lecture 3
Title:  “Multimodal Cancer Treatments - The Role of Temperature Controlled Hyperthermia”
Lecturer:  Prof. Udo Gaipl

2:55 – 3:20 PM

RO Lecture 4
Title:  “Multicentric Randomized Trials in Head and Neck Cancer: 15 Years Experience of the GORTEC Group”
Lecturer:  Prof. Jean Bourhis

DI Lecture 4
Title: "Uptake Volume Histograms: A Novel Venue Towards Biological Target Volumes"
Lecturer: Dr. Slobodan Devic

RRPO Lecture 4
Title:  “Radiation Protection in Pediatric Radiology”
Lecturer:  Dr. Claire-Louise Chapple

3:20 – 3:30 PM

Discussion

Discussion

Discussion

 

3:30 – 4:00 PM

Asr Prayer and Coffee Break

 

4:00 – 5:30 PM

Session 5: Panel Discussions

 

Session 5 A
Proton-carbon Ion Therapy

Moderators:  Dr. Belal Moftah, Dr. Mohammad Alshabanah

Session 5 B:
 Innovative Approaches in Diagnostic Imaging

Moderators:  Prof. Stig Holtas, Dr. Tariq Lingawi

Venue

Prince Salman Auditorium

Post-Graduate Centre Auditorium

 

RO Presentation 1
Title:  “Harvard Clinical Experience on Proton Therapy”
Presenter: Prof. Herman Suit  

DI Presentation 1
Title:  “Functional fMRI”
Presenter:  Prof. Freddy Stahlberg

 

RO Presentation 2
Title:  “Ion Therapy: Chiba Experience”
Presenter:  Prof. Hirohiko Tsujii

DI Presentation 2
Title:  “Computed Tomography”
Presenter:  Prof. Michael Dennis

 

RO Presentation 3
Title:  “ARCHADE Proton-Carbon Centre”
Presenter:  Prof. Jean Bourhis

DI Presentation 3
Title:  “PET/CT”
Presenter:   Prof. Paul Kinahan

 

RO Presentation 4
Title:  “Compact Proton Therapy Solutions”
Presenter:  Prof. Thomas Rockwell Mackie

DI Presentation 4
Title:  “Clinical Cardiology”
Presenter: Prof. Massoud Leesar  

 

RO Presentation 5
Title: “Proton Beam Scanning”
Presenter:  Dr. Jacob Flanz

DI Presentation 5
Title:  “Radioisotobes”
Presenter:  Prof. Gerd Beyer 

 

RO Presentation 6
Title: “Heidelberg Heavy-Ion Radiation Therapy Center”
Presenter:  Dr. Marc Muenter

DI Presentation 6
Title:  “Non-Invasive High Intensity Focused Ultra Sound”
Presenter: Prof. Gail ter Haar  

 

Discussions
Presenters: All Panelists   

Discussions
Presenters: All Panelists   

 

7:30 PM

 

8:00-10:00PM

Venue: Al-Maather Cave Park
Evening Presentation and Dinner Sponsored by Gulf Medical / Accuray
Presentations by Dr. Omar Dawood, MD, M.P.H and
Vice President of Clinical Development, Accuray Inc. and
Enis Ozayer, PhD, Radiation Oncologist, Acibadem University