JPNMSeminar Schedule
Fall 2000 - Spring 2001
September, 2000
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/21/00 Metastatic Bone Pain- 
Innovative Management
Aldo N. Serafini, MD 
Professor of Radiology and Medicine 
University of Miami School of Medicine 
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center 
Sponsored by Berlex Laboratories,Inc.
9/28/00 The Nuclear Function of 
Angiogenin in the 
Process of Angiogenesis
Guo-fu Hu, PhD 
Department of Radiology 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
October, 2000
10/5/00 PET Studies using 
non-traditional Positron 
Emitting Nuclides
Michael J. Welch. PhD
Directorof Radiation Sciences
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Professor of Radiology and Chemistry 
Washington University
10/12/00 New Developments in 
Melanoma Staging and 
Treatment
MichaelB. Atkins, MD
Director of the CutaneousOncology
    BiologicTherapy Programs 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Associate Professor of Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
10/19/00 "How Hot is Hot?" - 
Correlation of Infrared 
Imaging with Conventional 
Imaging in Cancer 
Patients
Milos J. Janicek, MD PhD 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Dana Farber Cancer Institute 
Harvard Medical School
10/26/00 MR Perfusion Imaging 
with Electromagnetically 
Labeled Water
David C. Alsop, PhD 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Harvard Medical School
November, 2000
11/2/00 How to Buy Your Camera 
in the 2000's
Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE 
Principal Associate in Radiology (Physics) 
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
11/9/00 Clinical PET in 
Radiolabled Drugs
Alan J. Fischman, MD PhD 
Director, Nuclear Medicine 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
11/16/00 A Coded Aperture Imager 
for Small Animal Nuclear 
Medicine Studies
Roberto Accorsi, MS 
Doctoral Candidate 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11/23/00 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
11/30/00 Novel Prodrug Approach 
for Targeting Tumors with 
Radionuclides
Amin I. Kassis, PhD 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Radiation Biology Laboratory 
Harvard Medical School
December, 2000
12/7/00 Gene Delivery and Imaging JonathanB. Kruskal, MD PhD
Director, AbdominalImaging Fellowship
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
12/14/00 Medical Image Perception 
Research: Spawned 
by Nuclear Medicine
Philip F. Judy, PhD 
Director, Physics Division 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
12/21/00 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
12/28/00 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2001
1/4/01 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/11/01 Algorithms 101 J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
1/18/01 "Quantitative SPECT" is 
Better than "Traditional 
Subjective reading" in 
Clinical Decision Making
Hiro Yasuda, MD 
Nuclear Medicine / Cardiology 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
1/25/01 Image Registration 
Colloquium
S. Ted Treves, MD, Karl Mitchell, 
Keith A. Johnson, MD, J. Alex Becker, 
Ramsey Badawi, PhD, 
Daniel de Vries, PhD, 
Stephen C. Moore, PhD 
Harvard Medical School
February, 2001
2/1/01 Canceled
2/8/01 Using the Internet for 
Tele Nuclear Medicine: 
Rehearsal
Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE 
Principal Associate in Radiology (Physics) 
J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
2/15/01 Rutherford andthe
Nucleus
Andrew Brown MRCP, FRCR 
Radiation Oncology Associates 
New Hampshire
2/22/01 Nuclear Medicine: 
Clinical Days in Avalon
Kevin J. Donohoe, MD 
Assistant Professor in Radiology 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Harvard Medical School
March, 2001
3/1/01 Choice of PET Equipment: 
A Debate
Syed Ali Asad, MD 
Scott Beuzeville, B.Med., FRACP 
Philip Manzanero, MD 
John Oldershaw, MD 
Susan Passalaqua, MD 
Tung Vy, MD 
Kee Young Wee, MD 
Ramsey D. Badawi, PhD 
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
3/8/01 How to Do PACS Right Gerald M. Kolodny, MD 
Director, Nuclear Medicine 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
3/15/01 Can We Define a 
Therapeutically Equivalent 
Dose for Targeted 
Radionuclide Therapy?
S. James Adelstein,MD PhD
Daniel C. Tosteson University Professor 
Director, Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
3/22/01 Development of 
Neurotransporter Ligands
David R. Elmaleh, PhD 
Director of Contrast Media Chemistry 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
3/29/01 Quantitative Brain SPECT 
in Parkinson's Disease 
and Alzheimer's Disease
Georges El Fakhri, PhD 
Instructor in Radiology 
Department of Radiology 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
April, 2001
4/5/01 Aspects of ECAT PET 
Technology
Jonathan B. Frey 
Product Manager 
CTI, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
4/12/01 No Seminar ( ClinicalNuclear Medicine '01 )
4/10/01 William D. Kaplan Lecture 
Louis Bornstein Family Amphitheater 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
12:15 PM
PET: The New "Gold 
Standard" for Cancer 
Imaging
Richard L. Wahl, MD 
Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine 
Vice Chairman for Technology 
    and Development 
John Hopkins Medical Institutions
4/19/01 PPARg Oncogenes in 
Thyroid Folliculary 
Carcinoma
Todd Gerard Kroll PhD, MD 
Instructor in Pathology 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
4/26/01 Functional Imaging of 
Multidrug Resistance: 
An Image Worth a 
Thousand Variables
Victor H. Gerbaudo,PhD
Director, Methodology & Operations 
Division of Nuclear Medicine 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Lecturer in Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
May, 2001
5/3/01 Photo-activatable Viral 
Vectors: A Strategy for 
Targeted Gene Delivery
Takeshi Sano, PhD 
Director, Center for Molecular Imaging 
      Diagnosis and Therapy 
     and Basic Science Laboratory 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
5/10/01 Radiological Staging of 
Lung Cancer:  Importance 
of Image Registration
Suzanne L. Aquino, MD 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
5/17/01 The Complementary Role of 
Tc-99m Depreotide in the 
Characterization of 
Single Pulmonary Nodules
Victor H. Gerbaudo,PhD
Director, Methodology & Operations 
Division of Nuclear Medicine 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Lecturer in Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
5/24/01 PET Data Modeling Ali Bonab, PhD 
Nuclear Medicine Physicist 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Instructor in Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
5/31/01 Design and Construction
of a Small Animal PET
Jack Correia, PhD 
Director, Cyclotron Laboratory 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
June, 2001
6/7/01 New Insights into the 
Mechanisms of Ischemic LV 
Dysfunction and Their 
Implications for Patient 
Management Gained with 
Nuclear Cardiology 
Techniques
Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, FACC 
Director of Nuclear Cardiology 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
6/14/01 PACS at BIDMC Two
Years Later
Jeffrey B. Mendel, MD
Chief, Section of Informatics
Department of Radiology 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Harvard Medical School
6/21/01 SNM Abstract Rehearsal