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Amol Takalkar, MD, MS, MBA, FACNM is more than a professor in the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. He is also the president of the Indo-American Society of Nuclear Medicine (IASNM), which made him responsible for organizing a Continuing Education session with the Indian College of Medicine as part of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India Annual Conference (SNM Con) which took place in December in New Delhi.
"We took a delegation of nine speakers from the United States and their talks were extremely well-received," Dr. Takalkar says.
The delegation included his Emory colleague Ila Sethi, MD, (pictured right) assistant professor in the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and clinical site director for nuclear medicine at Emory University Hospital Midtown. Her presentation on Y-90 dosimetry earned an honorable mention in the meeting highlights.
Other speakers included faculty from Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York; Penn Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hoag Family Cancer Institute in California; and Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan.
The delegation included his Emory colleague Ila Sethi, MD, (pictured right) assistant professor in the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and clinical site director for nuclear medicine at Emory University Hospital Midtown. Her presentation on Y-90 dosimetry earned an honorable mention in the meeting highlights.
Other speakers included faculty from Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York; Penn Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hoag Family Cancer Institute in California; and Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Takalkar also delivered the Vikram Sarabhai Oration at the meeting. His talk was titled "Functional Brain Imaging with PET."
"It was such an honor and proud moment for me to have my nuclear medicine teacher/guru Dr. Abass Alavi in the audience as I presented my talk and then when I received the Vikram Sarabhai Oration Award," he says.
"It was such an honor and proud moment for me to have my nuclear medicine teacher/guru Dr. Abass Alavi in the audience as I presented my talk and then when I received the Vikram Sarabhai Oration Award," he says.
Dr. Takalkar isn't content just with receiving awards; this year initiated a new research award to be given at the annual meeting. The Alavi-Takalkar-Kumar Award encourages and promotes research in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging and theragnostics in India.
"I implemented this award in honor of my mentor, Dr. Alavi, who is a giant in the field of nuclear medicine. The award also honors Dr. Rakesh Kumar, a nuclear medicine stalwart who received the India Presidential Medal of Honor for his work in India," he says, his eyes alight with admiration and gratitude.
The group shortlisted 10 of the 50 abstracts for oral presentation and selected the top three for the award. "It was wonderful to be there with Drs. Alavi and Kumar to present the awards, which will be given annually going forward," Dr. Takalkar says.
"I implemented this award in honor of my mentor, Dr. Alavi, who is a giant in the field of nuclear medicine. The award also honors Dr. Rakesh Kumar, a nuclear medicine stalwart who received the India Presidential Medal of Honor for his work in India," he says, his eyes alight with admiration and gratitude.
The group shortlisted 10 of the 50 abstracts for oral presentation and selected the top three for the award. "It was wonderful to be there with Drs. Alavi and Kumar to present the awards, which will be given annually going forward," Dr. Takalkar says.
"It was a good meeting with a lot of luminaries from India in attendance along with our American delegation," says Dr. Takalkar. "There was a lot of excitement and interest in collaborations and lots of people approached me about collaborating with Emory. India is at the forefront of theragnostics and it may benefit U.S. nuclear medicine professionals to learn from our colleagues in India as well."
Dr. Takalkar also notes India will be the highlight country for the upcoming Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago in June. He's looking forward to it.
Dr. Takalkar also notes India will be the highlight country for the upcoming Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago in June. He's looking forward to it.