2026 CCSNMMI Fall Education Conference – Now a One Day Event!

The Central Chapter SNMMI Fall Education Program will offer the following presentations that can be used towards ARRT® Category A biennial CE and CQR credit:

Removing Gray Areas from Gray Matter 18F-FET Glioma
-NMT – Other Imaging Procedures – .50

Did We Image Enough? Optimizing PET/CT Acquisition for Cutaneous Malignancies
-NMT – Procedures – Endocrine and Oncology Procedures – .75

Beyond Perfusion: The Emerging Power of Cardiac PET. From Blood Flow to Inflammation, Infection and Amyloid
-NMT – Procedures – Cardiac Procedures – .25

Stranger Things: A Look at the Unusual
-NMT – Image Production – Instrumentation – .75

Medical Inspections
-NMT – Safety – Radiation Physics, Radiobiology, and Regulations – .25
-RA – Safety – Patient Safety, Radiation Protection and Equipment Operation – .25
-THR – Safety – Radiation Protection, Equipment Operation and Quality Assurance – .25

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2026 CCSNMMI Fall Education Conference
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Kalahari Resort and Convention Center
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Register onsite beginning at 4:30pm Central on Friday, October 2 and again beginning at 7am on Saturday, October 3 outside Kalahari Ballroom A.

The 2026 CCSNMMI Fall Program will be a one day, eight (8) VOICE credit program at the Kalahari Resort and Conference Center. The program will kick off on Friday, October 2nd with Governance meetings followed by a reception in our exhibit area, for all attendees, beginning at 5:30pm Central.

The education portion of the program will start on Saturday, October 3rd with breakfast in the exhibit area beginning at 7am and the program kick off by 7:45am. VOICE credits are available.

Join us in Wisconsin on October 2-3!

Program Schedule:
Saturday, October 3, 2026

7:00 – 7:45 am                Registration/Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Area
7:45 – 8:00 am                Welcome and Update

Session 1 – Sandbox

8:00 – 8:45 am –
PET/MRI: What, Why, and How?, Ali Pirasteh, MD, UW Health

8:45 – 9:45 am –
Removing Gray Areas from Gray Matter 18F-FET Glioma, Laurel Sarkissian, Telix Pharmaceuticals

9:45 – 10:30 am –
Right Therapy, Right Training: Building Competency in Therapeutic Radiopharmaceutical Delivery, Sarah Gibbons, MBA, CNMT, NMTCB(CT), FSNMMI-TS, Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts

10:30 – 11:00 am – Break in the Exhibit Area

Session 2 – PET

11:00 – 11:45 am –
Did We Image Enough? Optimizing PET/CT Acquisition for Cutaneous Malignancies
Tomas Romero, MD, UW Health

11:45 am – 12:30 pm –
Beyond Perfusion: The Emerging Power of Cardiac PET. From Blood Flow to Inflammation, Infection, and Amyloid, Nandakumar Menon, MD, UW Health

12:30 – 1:30 pm – Lunch on your own

Session 3: – More PET and Other Imaging

1:30 – 2:15 pm –
Technegas in Practice: Implementation, Imaging, & the Technologist Experience
Hannah Carolus Khan, Northwestern Healthcare

2:15 – 3:00pm –
Stranger Things: A Look At The Unusual, Elizabeth Bates, CNMT, Froedtert Hospital

3:00 – 3:30 pm – Break in the Exhibit Area

3:30 – 4:30 pm-
Addressing Challenges in Theranostics Clinical Trials
Joseph R. Steiner, PhD, DABR, University of Chicago

4:30 – 5:00 pm –
Medical Inspections, Sarah Bouche, Department of Health Services of Wisconsin

5:00 – 6:00 pm –
Clinical Trials in Theranostics: How to Prepare and Be a Successful Imaging Center
LisaAnn Trembath, FSNMT, MSM, CCRA, Trembath Consulting, LLC