Following the SSAC e-health workshop in November 2005, medical imaging, microscopy and spectroscopy was identified as an area where Scotland could lead the way in the delivery of clinical services and also in terms of realising potential through a range of specific research opportunities. In order to see if there was a way Scotland can work together in a strategic way in this area, the SSAC held a discussion dinner (link to programme) on 5 October 2006. During the Dinner, delegates heard views from:

Welcome (Professor Wilson Sibbett, SSAC)

Medical imaging - a Scottish perspective: Professor Chris Haslett, (Head of the Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh)

Imaging in a clinical environment:
Brain imaging: Professor Joanna Wardlaw (Head of Neuro-Imaging Research Unit, Western General Hospital)
Vascular imaging: Professor Alan Jardine (Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow)
Oncology imaging: Professor Andrew Welch (Director of the Aberdeen PET Unit, University of Aberdeen) tbc

Image guided therapy and therapeutic imaging: Professor Andreas Melzer, (Director, Institute of Medical Science & Technology, University of Dundee) tbc

Imaging from a TMRC Perspective: Orest Hurko MD, ( Director of the Translational Medicine research Centre)

During the Workshop, delegates considered:

• whether there was a way Scotland can work together in a strategic way in this area,
• where the gaps and opportunities for the future lie, and
• what the costs and timescales involed were

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