Harvard Medical School - Joint Program in Nuclear = Medicine

Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Thursday Morning Seminars

Location: HMS quad (Longwood & Louis Pasteur), Bldg C, Cannon Room.

Directions: Enter via the C/MEC connector from the middle of the HMS quad
http://www.med.Harvard.edu/JPNM/Directions/CannonRoom.gif

Time: 8:00 AM sharp

JPNM Seminar Schedule
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Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
September, 2007
Date	Title	Speaker
9/20/07	Basic Science Summary - Instrumentation (SNM 2007)	Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE Principal Associate in Radiology (Physics) Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School
9/27/07	Display Freeware	J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD Associate Professor of Radiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School
October, 2007
10/4/07	Advancing Nuclear Medicine Through Innovation - The National Academies Report	S. James Adelstein, MD PhD Paul C. Cabot Distinguished Professor of Medical Biophysics Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine Harvard Medical School
10/11/07	Dedicated Breast Specific Single Photon and PET Imagers - Current Status, New Developments and Future Opportunities	Stan Majewski, PhD Head Detector and Imaging Group Jefferson Lab Newport News, VA
10/18/07	PET Applications in Small Animal Imaging, Breast Cancer Imaging and Proton Therapy	Alberto Del Guerra, PhD Professor of Medical Physics Faculty of Medicine Head and Director Specialty School in Medical Physics Head, Functional Imaging and Instrumentation Group Department of Physics "E.Fermi' University of Pisa
10/25/07	Multi-functional Nanoparticles for Medical Application	Omid C. Farokhzad, MD Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School
November, 2007
11/1/07	Drug-refractory Epilepsy and the Multidrug Resistance (MDR) System: Pharmacokinetics of ^99mTc-Sestamibi in the Brain and its Correlation with MDR Genotype	Giuliano Mariani, MD Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Director Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine University of Pisa Medical School Pisa, Italy
11/8/07	Imaging Very Small Lesions by Signal Amplification	Ban-An Khaw, PhD Director of Center for Cardiovascular Targeting George Barakis Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Northeastern University
11/15/07	Horizons in SPECT, PET, and CT Hardware	Douglas J. Wagenaar, PhD Director, Research, Medical Imaging Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc. Northridge, CA
11/22/07	No Seminar (Thanksgiving)
11/29/07	Patient Motion Detection and Correction	Michael A. King, PhD Professor and Vice-Chair for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Department of Radiology Division of Nuclear Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA
December, 2007
12/6/07	No Seminar (Remembering Larry Cavendish)
12/13/07	Time-of-Flight PET	Suleman Surti, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
12/20/07	Development of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Ligands for Neuroimaging	Ji-Quan Wang, PhD Experimental PET laboratory Masscahusetts General Hospital Instructor in Radiology Harvard Medical School
12/27/07	No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2008
1/3/08	No Seminar (New Year's Holiday)
1/10/08	Why There Will Never Be Another FDG	Ronald J. Callahan, PhD Director Nuclear Pharmacy Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School
1/17/08	Prognostic Value of Rubidium-82 PET/CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging	Sharmila Dorbala, MBBS Director of Nuclear Cardiology Brigham and Women's Hospital Assistant Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School
1/24/08	W(h)ither Solid Tumor Radioimmunotherapy?	Jason Dearling, PhD Instructor in Radiology Children's Hosptial Boston Harvard Medical School
1/31/08	Evidence-based Medicine	J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD Associate Professor of Radiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School
February, 2008
2/7/08	Progress on Quantitative PET within the JPNM	Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE Principal Associate in Radiology (Physics) Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School
2/14/08	Molecular MR Imaging	Peter D. Caravan, PhD Assistant in Neuroimaging Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital Instructor in Radiology Harvard Medical School
2/21/08	Targeted Molecular Imaging: A Random and a Rational Approach	Julie L. Sutcliffe, PhD Assistant Professor Director, Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Facility, CMGI Department of Biomedical Engineering University of California, Davis
2/28/08	RCollaboration: Learning Online in a Radiology Community of Practice	Michael P. D'Alessandro, MD Pediatric Radiologist The University of Iowa Children's Hospital Professor of Radiology University of Iowa College of Medicine RSNA Advisor, Personal Learning Portfolios RSNA Director, RCollaboration.org
March, 2008
3/6/08	The American Board of Nuclear Medicine	J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD Associate Professor of Radiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School
3/13/08	Debate: In 10 Years MRI/PET Will Replace PET/CT as the Standard of Care in Whole Body Oncologic Imaging	Kamran Akram, MD Gonca Bural, MD Gesa Neumann, MD Niall P. Sheehe, MD Katherine Zukotynski, MD Eryn A. Caamano, MD JPNM Residents Harvard Medical School
3/20/08	FDG-PET Imaging of Endocrine Disease	Frederick D. Grant, MD Staff Physician, Nuclear Medicine Children's Hospital Boston Instructor in Radiology Harvard Medical School
3/27/08	Canceled
April, 2008
4/3/08	Novel MRI Contrast Based on Chemical Exchange	Elena Vinogradov, PhD Division of MR Reserach Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Instructor in Radiology Harvard Medical School
4/10/08	Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Use of Metabolic Imaging to Cross the Translational Divide	Robert J. Gropler, MD Professor of Radiology, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Lab Chief Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Washington University School of Medicine
4/17/08	A Decade of PET/CT: The Road to Acceptance	David Townsend PhD Director, Molecular Imaging and Translational Research Professor of Medicine and Radiology University of Tennessee Medical Center
4/24/08	Beyond Stenosis: Functional Imaging of Atherosclerosis with PET	Ahmed A. Tawakol, MD Director, Imaging Trials Program Co-Director, CIMIT Cardiovascular Program Massachusetts General Hospital Instructor in Medicine Harvard Medical School
May, 2008
5/1/08	A Streptavidin-based Nanoparticle for Auger-emitter Radiotherapy of Cancers- A Work in Progress	Donald J. Hnatowich, PhD Professor of Radiology Division of Nuclear Medicine Department of Radiology University of Massachusetts Medical School
5/8/08	Image Guided Stereotactic Radiation Therapy	Xing-Qi Lu, PhD Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School
5/15/08	No Seminar (Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2008)
5/22/08	TBA
5/29/08	TBA
June, 2008
6/4/08	MRI-Ultrasound Image Guided Biopsies for Prostate Cancer	Edward J. Holupka PhD Director of Physics Department of Radiation Therapy Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Harvard Medical School
6/11/08	PET/CT Instrumentation: Market and Application-Driven Design Considerations	William Worstell, PhD Chief Technology Officer PhotoDetection Systems, Inc. Boxboro, MA
6/18/08	No Seminar (SNM Annual Meeting)
6/25/08	TBA

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