Event

Grand Round

GRAND ROUNDS DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Date:
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:
Department of Nuclear Medicine 117 Parker Hall
Cost:
$0
Presenter:
Richard P. Harvey, DrPH, ABSNM, CHP, CMLSO, CLSO, LMP, RSO, Director of Radiation Safety and Radiation Safety Officer Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Sponsor:
UB Department of Nuclear Medicine

Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy Seeds Used for Localization of Non-Palpable Breast Lesions - Program Establishment & Nuclear Medicine’s Role

Objectives:

1. Establishing a Radioactive Seed Localization Program for Breast Surgery and the Role of Nuclear Medicine
2. Emergency Response of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Safety to Emergent Situations such as Ruptured or Lost Radioactive Seeds
3. Nuclear Medicine’s Role in Gamma Surgical Probe Quality Assurance Used for Seed Localization Procedures
4. Localization Procedures May be Performed in Conjunction with Lymphoscintigraphy – Radionuclide Detection

For more information, contact:

Fred Covelli
Email: fcovelli@buffalo.edu
Phone: 838-5889