Introduction to the fourth issue

Dr. Francois Lamoureux and I are pleased to introduce the fourth issue of our/your ePatient magazine. It is hard to imagine that three years have passed since we published the first edition of the magazine.

On behalf of the editorial board, we would like to thank everyone and all of you for your support, encouragements and praise for this unique international educational nuclear medicine tool and endeavors.

Since our first issue, additional international expert colleagues have joined our editorial board, Multi-Concept, our publisher, has inserted a power language translator offering the magazine content in most known languages on earth and we have reached out to the entire nuclear medicine community to contribute to the educational endeavors of the magazine.

This issue is in fact a special issue dedicated to the partnership between the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine. It celebrates the fact that Canada will be the Highlight Country at the 2019 meeting of the SNMMI which is held in Anahein, California from June 22nd until June 25th

For this celebration, Dr. Lamoureux, the President of the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine will first give an overview of Canada during the opening ceremony. The CANM will have a large

On an educational point of view, the CANM and SNMMI have also organized four international interesting CME sessions with avant-garde content. The first session will illustrate the binary approach that Canada has taken for the lung ventilation/perfusion scintigraphic studies. Nuclear telemedicine solutions will be presented during the second session. International experts will then discuss the latest and future developments in Positron Emission Imaging. Finally the Theranostics 101 session will illustrate the hidden nuts and bolts of the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors.

Besides interviews and articles from colleagues around the globe, the content of this fourth edition largely reflects the lung scintigraphy and Theranostics sessions that we have organized at the SNMMI meetings.

We are hopeful that you will enjoy the new issue of your magazine and we are looking forwards to receiving your comments and eventually your article for publication in our fifth issue that is scheduled in the fall.

François and Jean-Luc