Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Thursday Morning Seminars
 
Location: HMS quad (Longwood & Louis Pasteur) , Goldenson Bldg room 122. 
Directions: Courtyard Cafe entrance (B-D link), turn right. Food B-131. 
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/maps/quadmap.html
Time: 8:00 AM sharp
JPNM Seminar Schedule
1991-1992 1992-1993 1993-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996
1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002
Fall 2001 - Spring 2002
September, 2001
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/20/01 Canceled  
9/27/01 No Seminar (Yom Kippur)
October, 2001
10/4/01 Oncologic Applications of
PET Imaging
Jac D. Scheiner, MD
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Rhode Island Hospital
Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
Brown Medical School
10/11/01 The CT/PET Fallacy J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
10/18/01 Bystander Effect of
I-125-Labeled Cells on
Tumor Growth In-Vivo
Lanny Y. Xue, MD PhD
I-125-Labeled Cells on
Tumor Growth In-Vivo 
10/25/01 Bone Scans in Cancer David E. Drum, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Boston VA Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
November, 2001
11/1/01 Canceled  
11/8/01 Bifunctional Chelating
Agents for Targeted
alpha-Particle
Radiotherapy
Martin W. Brechbiel, PhD
Section Chief, Chemistry Section 
Center for Cancer Research
National Institutes of Health
11/15/01 Progress Towards
Quantitative Ga-67 SPECT
Imaging in Lymphoma
Stephen C. Moore, PhD
Associate Professor
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
11/22/01 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
11/29/01 The Accelerated Monte
Carlo Simulation for
Scatter in 3D PET and
Investigation of Optimal
3D PET Performance:
Reconstruction and Data
Correction Techniques
Clay H. Holdsworth
Research Assistant
Nuclear Medicine Laboratory
Biomedical Physics Department
University of California,
    Los Angeles
December, 2001
12/6/01 Low-Molecular Weight
Ligands for Cancer
Diagnosis and Treatment
John V. Frangioni, MD PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
12/13/01 Physiological Study of
the Coronary Circulation
with PET N-13 Ammonia
Technique in Humans
Henry Gewirtz, MD
Director
Nuclear Cardiology laboratory
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
12/20/01 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
12/27/01 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2002
1/3/02 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/10/02 Canceled  
1/17/02 Inhibition of Angiogenin-
induced rRNA
Transcription as a Novel
Molecular Target for
Cancer Drug Development
Guofu Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Center for Biochemical and Biophysical
    Sciences and Medicine
Harvard Medical School
1/24/02 Breast Lymphoscintigraphy Rachel Powsner, MD
Section Head, Nuclear Medicine
VA Medical Center
Associate Professor
Boston University Medical School
1/31/02 Detection of Acute
Coronary Syndrome in the
Emergency Department
with Cardiac MRI
Raymond Y. Kwong, MD
Co-director
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Cardiovascular Division
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
February, 2002
2/7/02 Neoplastic Meningitis,
from Diagnosis to
Treatment
Eric T. Wong, MD
Brain Tumor Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
2/14/02 Molecular Diagnosis,
Imaging, and Therapy:
The Story of GIST
Annick Van den Abbeele, MD
Chief, Nuclear Medicine
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
2/21/02 Medical Image Fusion
and Clinical Applications
Edward J. Holupka PhD
Director of Physics
Department of Radiation Therapy
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
2/28/02 Bone Marrow Scintigraphy
with 99mTc-Sestamibi in
Patients with Gaucher's
Disease
Giuliano Mariani, MD
Professor of Nuclear Medicine
Director
Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Oncology, Transplantation,
    and New Technologies in Medicine
University of Pisa Medical School
University Hospital of Pisa
Pisa, Italy
March, 2002
3/7/02 Improved Quantitation in
Brain SPECT
Marie Foley Kijewski, ScD
Associate Physicist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
3/14/02 Bystander Effect:
Intercellular
Transmission of Radiation
Damage Signals
John B. Little, MD
James Stevens Simmons Professor
    of Radiobiology
Department of Cancer Cell Biology
Harvard School of Public Health
3/21/02 Balloon Debate:
The Best Nuclear Medicine
Physicist
Johnathan E. Alfert, MD
Scott Beuzeville, BMed, FRACP
Steven Burrell, MD
Vincent C. Chan, MD
Karl B. Coyner, PhD, MD
Keith A. Johnson, MD
Nael Khayyat, MD
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
3/28/02 Hidden Barriers to
Improvement in the
Quality of Care
Barbara J. McNeil, MD PhD
Department Chairperson
Ridley Watts Professor of
    Health Care Policy
Department of Health Care Policy
Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
April, 2002
4/4/02 Thyroid Cancer: An
Overview of the Common
Types
Jeffrey R. Garber, MD
Chief of Endocrinology
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School 
4/11/02 Coronary Microvascular
Dysfunction and
Implications for
Myocardial Perfusion
Imaging
Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, FACC
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
4/18/02
MRI-guided quantitative
SPECT in prodromal AD
Georges El Fakhri, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
4/25/02 Design, Synthesis, and
Evaluation of Radiolabeled
Integrin alphavbeta3
Receptor Antagonists:
Cancer Treatment by 
Targeted Radiolysis of
Tumor Vasculature
Thomas D. Harris, PhD
Senior Investigator
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Medical Imaging
May, 2002
5/2/02 No Seminar ( Clinical Nuclear Medicine '02 )
5/9/02 Radiation Dosimetry of a
Radiolabeled Integrin
AlphaVBeta3 Antagonist:
Preclinical and Clinical
Studies
Joel Lazewatsky, PhD
Discovery Research
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Medical Imaging 
5/16/02 Cerebral Perfusion
Eigenimage Detection of
PreClinical Alzheimer's
Disease
Keith A. Johnson, MD
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvaard Medical School
5/23/02 PET, Antibodies and
Radiotherapy
John L. Humm, PhD
Chief of Nuclear Medicine Physics
Associate Member of Memorial
    Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor
Cornell Medical School

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