Introduction to the second issue

Dr. Jean Luc Urbain,

M.D., Ph.D., CPE, President of the WFNMB

François Lamoureux and I are pleased to introduce the second issue of the acclaimed Pangea-ePatient magazine.

As you know, the idea behind the Pangea project and Pangea-ePatient magazine is to educate prescribing physicians, patients, health authorities and hospital administrators from across the world about current and future nuclear medicine diagnostic tests and therapies in comprehensible words.

With the endorsement of most of the large regional and many national associations of nuclear medicine, we are delighted to welcome on the editorial board five new members. With the addition of Drs. Al- Ibraheem, Mohamad Haider, Rodrigo Jaimovich, Christian Scheiber and Andrew Scott, the magazine will provide an even broader international “pangean” perspective and audience to illustrate the benefits of the safe use of medical isotopes in the management of patients’ diseases.

In this new issue, you will find articles in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic (digital version only at this point). Besides the interviews of international leaders in the NM field like Dr. Danfer Huapaya, President of the Latin American Societies of Nuclear Medicine, we have asked colleagues from across the world to share their experience and expertise in brain scintigraphy and the treatment of thyroid cancers. The thyroid cancer section will in fact represent the first part of a series on Theranostics. In the next two issues of the magazine that are scheduled to be published in June and October we will have articles on neuroendocrine tumors and prostate cancers, respectively.

The Pangea-ePatient publication is largely digital and available with easy access and download on electronic platform such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers at nmpangea.com in more than 100 different languages. Limited hard print copies can also be obtained on demand or at the CANM kiosk at the following annual conferences: CANM, SNNMI and EANM and at the 2018 WFNMB congress in Melbourne.

We sincerely hope that you will enjoy this new issue of the magazine. We would love to hear your comments and criticisms to further improve the content and format of the premiere international nuclear medicine educational magazine.