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
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1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002
Fall 2002 - Spring 2003
September, 2002
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/19/02
Syntegra - Automated
Image Fusion in PET and
Radiation Oncology
Patricia Root, BS, RTR,CT
Senior Product Manager
Philips Radiation Oncology Systems
Piotr J. Maniawski, MSc
PET Product Manager
Philips Medical Systems
9/26/02
The ImageJ API
J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
October, 2002
10/3/02 Switchable Targeted
MR Contrast Agents
Robert Lenkinski, PhD
Associate Chief for Academic Affairs
Director of Experimental Radiology
  and the 3T MRI/MRS Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
10/10/02 Can Morpholinos, a DNA
Analogue, Be Used to
Improve Tumor Targeting?
Donald J. Hnatowich, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Radiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
10/17/02 ALP Mediated Targeting
of Tumor Cells
Agop Kirichian, MD
Research Fellow
Laboratory for Experimental
  Nuclear Medicine
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
10/24/02 Shielding for PET
Facilities: How Low is
is ALARA
Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE
Stephen C. Moore, PhD
William A. Lorenzen
Harvard Medical School
10/31/02
Calibration of Yttrium-90
Radioimmunotherapy Doses
Brian E. Zimmerman, PhD
Research Chemist
National Institute of Standards
    and Technology

US Department of Commerce
November, 2002
11/7/02 In-vivo Molecular Vascular
Imaging in Animal Models
Lynne Johnson, MD
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Rhode Island Hospital
Professor of Medicine
Brown Medical School
11/14/02 Non-FDG PET Alan J. Fischman, MD PhD
Director, Nuclear Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
11/21/02 Accounting for Spatial
Resolution Loss in
Count-rate Metrics for
PET Cameras
Ramsey D. Badawi, PhD
PET Physicist
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
11/28/02 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
December, 2002
12/5/02 A Modified Lympho-
scintigraphic Procedure
for Separate Assessment
of Deep and Superficial
Lymphatic Circulation in
the Evaluation of
Patients with Peripheral
Lymphedema
Giuliano Mariani, MD
Professor of Nuclear Medicine
Director
Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Oncology, Transplantation,
    and New Technologies in Medicine
University Hospital of Pisa
University of Pisa Medical School
Pisa, Italy
12/12/02 Analytical Voxel-Based
MIRD Techniques for
Internal Dosimetry
Christian Janicki, PhD
McGill University Health Center
Deptartment of Medical Physics
Montreal, QC, Canada
12/19/02 Imaging Parkinson's
Disease Progression:
Potential Biomarkers for
Assessing Novel
Neuroprotective Therapies
John P. Seibyl, MD
Executive Director and Senior Scientist
The Institute for
    Neurodegenerative Disorders

New Haven, CT
12/26/02 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2003
1/2/03
Lymphatic Drainage of
the Skin
Roger F. Uren, MD, FRACP, DDU
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Sydney
1/9/03 Imaging Cell Death
Jagat Narula, MD
Chief of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
Hanneman MCP University
Philadelphia, PA
1/16/03 New Developments in
Pharmacological Stress
Testing
Gary V. Heller, MD PhD
Associate Director of Cardiology
    Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Hartford Hospital
Professor of Medicine and
    Nuclear Medicine
University of Connecticut
1/23/03 Progress Toward High-
Resolution Tomographic
Imaging of  Gamma-rays
with Coded Apertures
John Idoine  ScD
Professor of Physics
Kenyon College
1/30/03 Debate: This House
Believes that the Current
Generation of PET/CT
Scanners are a Waste of
Money
Jasjeet Bindra, MD
Rodney R. Bowman, MD
Munira Jazmine Charania, MD
Gregg Miller, MD
Gaurav M. Patel, MD
Chetan D. Rajadhyaksha, MD
JPNM Residents
Harvard Medical School 
February, 2003
2/6/03 Impact of Acquisition
Geometry and Patient
Habitus on Tumor
Detectability and Activity
Estimation in Whole-Body
FDG PET
Georges El Fakhri, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School 
2/13/03 Nuclear Medicine's Role
in a Radiological
Disaster
William A. Lorenzen, MS
Radiation & Health Physicist
Children's Hospital
2/20/03 Apoptosis Induction in
Tumor Cells: [I-125]UdR
versus Gamma Irradiation
Tetsuro Urashima, MD PhD
Research Fellow
Laboratory for Experimental
    Nuclear Medicine
 Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School 
Friday
2/28/03
Transport, Transcription
and Transduction: PET and
SPECT Strategies for
Imaging Pgp, p53 and
Peptide Permeation in
Cancer
David Piwnica-Worms, MD PhD
Professor of Radiology
Professor of Molecular Biology &
     Pharmacology
Director, Molecular Imaging Center
Washington University School of Medicine 
March, 2003
3/6/03 Effective Therapy of
Neoplastic Menigitis with
[I-125]UdR
Agop Kirichian, MD
Research Fellow
Laboratory for Experimental
  Nuclear Medicine
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
3/13/03 Hybrid Imaging: SPECT/CT
and PET/CT
Ora Israel, MD
Chair, Department of Nuclear Medicine
Rambam Medical Center
Associate Professor
Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel
3/20/03 Imaging Infection Robert H. Rubin, MD
Associate Director of Infectious Disease
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Gordon and Marjorie Osborne Chair in
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Harvard-MIT Division of
Health Sciences and Technology
3/27/03 Dosimetry for Molecular
Nuclear Medicine:
Walking the Line between
Organs and Molecules
Roger W. Howell, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Chief, Division of Radiation Research
New Jersey Medical School
April, 2003
4/3/03 Factor Analysis in the
Nuclear Medicine -
Useful but Dangerous
Arkadiusz Sitek, PhD
Radiological Physics
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
4/10/03 Evaluation of the Effect
of Patient Size,
Acquisition Mode, and a
Monte Carlo Scatter
Correction on Accurate
Quantitation in Clinical
3D PET
Clay H. Holdsworth, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Research Fellow in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
4/17/03
Molecular Modeling, DNA
Docking, Synthesis, and
Evaluation of Novel
Long-Chain Analogs of
IodoHoechst
Kai Chen, PhD
Research Fellow
Department of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
4/24/03 Macrophages in
Tumorigenesis
Aniruddha Ganguly, PhD
Assistant Professor
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
  May, 2003
5/1/03 Metal Complexes of
Cross-bridged Tetraamines
as Potential
Radiopharmaceuticals
Edward H. Wong, PhD
Professor of Chemstry
Department of Chemistry
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH
5/8/03 Thyroid Nodules Ellen Marqusee, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
5/15/03 No Seminar ( Clinical Nuclear Medicine '03 )
5/22/03 Tracking Patient
Respiration in SPECT
Imaging Using Stereo
Optical Cameras
Michael Gennert, ScD
Associate Professor of Computer Science
    & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Worchester Polytechnical Institute
Michael A. King, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Division of Nuclear Medicine
U of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
5/29/03 Molecular Imaging of
Cell Death
 Allan M. Green, JD MD PhD
 Director and Chief Technology Officer
 North American Scientific, Inc
June, 2003
6/5/03
Optimal Indicators at One
Month for Long Term
Success of Gleevec
Treatment of GIST: PET,
CT, and Mutational
Analysis
Clay H. Holdsworth, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Research Fellow in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
6/12/03 SNM Abstract Rehearsal
6/19/03 SNM Abstract Rehearsal

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