SOCIETY OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE, INDIA

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Alavi Takalkar Kumar Award

Purpose:

The purpose of this award is to encourage and strengthen Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research in India. This is being set up to honor Dr. Abass Alavi's legacy, a pioneer of Nuclear Medicine.

Eligible Investigators:

Must be enrolled as resident/fellow/student or be a faculty (but not more than 6 years as faculty) in a Nuclear Medicine Program in India.
Must be less than 40 years of age as of Dec 31 of that year (year of award).
Must not have previously won this award.

  • At least one of the authors should be life member of Society of Nuclear Medicine, India.
  • The presenting author (Presenter) need not be a member of the SNMI, but should be a pre registered delegate of the Conference.
  • The paper should not have been presented or submitted to any other journal or Conference.
  • Any financial support or grant from Government or non-governmental agency or industrial/trade organizations towards the study should be notified.
Screening of Papers contesting for the award:
  • The Scientific committee of the Conference shall identify academic experts who are not associated with any of the papers and utilize his/her services to screen the abstract/material to decide their suitability for presentation in the award paper session.
  • The papers/abstracts shall be sent to screening judge/expert keeping identity of authors and their affiliation as secret/confidential so as to keep process as impartial and neutral.
  • If there are no suitable candidates in any given year, then no award is made that year and interest will accumulate to increase the core amount
  • Topics can be clinical, basic science, radiopharmaceutical or computational/analysis related but have to be directly pertaining to Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging.
  • However educational exhibits or reviews (including case series) will NOT be considered for the award. Factors used for judging will primarily be related to quality and novelty of study.
  • Sound scientific basis, impact potential to the field of Nuclear Medicine will be scored objectively.

Norms for conducting Award Paper Session:

  • The session shall be held during the conference with a minimum duration of one hour. The duration may be increased (if more than 5 papers accepted/depending on the number of papers submitted for the same).
    • Presentation of each abstract shall be for 8 minutes followed by 2 minutes for discussion.
    Judges:
    • Any three office bearers of SNM(I) shall jointly decide and prepare a panel of three judges from those available in the conference in consultation with the organizing secretary.
    • One of the 3 office bearers shall act as coordinators for the judges and he/she shall assist them in smooth conduct of the session. An objective scoring scheme and chart may be prepared and provide to the judges. The criteria could be like clinical relevance of the paper, novelty/idea, way of presentation by the author, clarity, methodology, response to questions, slides-preparation format, etc.
    • At the end of the session, compilation and evaluation of result, signing of result sheet should be done jointly by the judges and handed over to co-ordinator. The winner of the award will be declared by President/Secretary General in Valedictory Function of SNMICON.
    • It is recommended that retired or senior faculty of leading teaching institutions/hospitals from all parts of country may be chosen as judges.
    • Any person who is directly or indirectly associated with any of the papers shall not be eligible to serve as judge for the award paper session.
    Award:
    • The award shall comprise a prize money, certificate and memento.
    • The citation will bear the names of the first three authors of the award winning paper and its title.
    • A prototype memento shall be prepared at the SNMI office bearing the logo of SNMI and the title of the award ‘Alavi-Takalkar-Kumar Award’ for First and Second and Third places in “Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research”, year and venue / town city of the Conference will be added every year and brought to the conference.
    • The award shall be declared and handed over to the winner in the Valedictory Function by the Chief Guest/outgoing President of SNM(I) and Secretary and/or representative member of the IASNM.
    • This award is an official award of the society of Nuclear Medicine India award & is a lifetime award.
    Financials:

    Total award amount: USD 16,000.00 (about INR 14,00,000/- INR)

    Total of 3 awards totaling US$800: for US$400 (#1 award), US$250 (#2 award), and US$150 (#3 award) will be given.

    • The winner cash amount will be transferred by SNMI Treasurer, after submission of a FULL MANUSCRIPT for publication in the upcoming issues of IJNM. The full manuscript of the paper with figures, tables etc. should be submitted in the prescribed format for publication in Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The consent and copy rights of paper should be sent/transferred to the Editor in Chief IJNM for publication in forthcoming issue of IJNM.

    The award will be implemented based on interest income/corpus from the donated amount by IASNM to the SNMI. This is expected to be implemented in perpetuity (or at least 20 years).