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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 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001
2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
September, 2004
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/16/04
No Seminar (Research Forum)
9/23/04
Advances in Cardiac
Imaging: Assessing
Structure and Function
with PET/CT
Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD
Chief of Nuclear Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
9/30/04
First-pass Extraction
J. Anthnoy Parker, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
October, 2004
10/7/04 PET Tumor Imaging Using
Fluorine-18 Labelled
Amino Acids
Mark Goodman, PhD
Director, Division of
    Radiological Sciences
Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry and
    Hematology & Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
10/14/04 Image Quality and
Dosimetry of CT-Based
Attenaution Correction
for Pediatric PET
Frederic H. Fahey, DSc
Director of Nuclear Medicine Physics
    and PET
Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
10/21/04 Optimizing Ictal SPECTs
with Patient-Specific
Seizure Onset Detection
Ali Shoeb
Doctoral Candidate
Medical Engineering Program
Harvard-MIT Division of
    Health Sciences and Technology
10/28/04 99mTc Targeting of Cancer
in Vitro and in Vivo by
an Antisense Mechanism-
Where We are Now
Donald J. Hnatowich, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Radiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
November, 2004
11/4/04 Movement Disorders
Alan J. Fischman, MD PhD
Director of Nuclear Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
11/11/04 No Seminar (Veterans Day)
11/18/04 Non-Invasive Selective
Opening of the Blood
Brain Barrier by
Focused Ultrasound
Ferenc A. Jolesz, MD
Vice Chairman for Research
Director, Division of MRI and
    Image Guided Therapy Program
Department of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
11/25/04 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
December, 2004
12/2/04
PET and SPECT Imaging of
the Dopamine Transporter:
A Multidisciplinary Tale
of Two Cities
John L. Neumeyer, PhD
Director, Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center
McLean Hospital
Lecturer on Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
12/9/04 Chemical, Physical, and
Biological Characterization
of Tumor-Tageting
Radioiodinated
Quinazolinone Derivatives
Ketai Wang, PhD
Research Fellow
Radiobiology & Experimental
    Radionuclide Therapy
Harvard Medical School
12/16/04 No Seminar (Research Forum)
12/23/04 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
12/30/04
No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2005
1/6/05
No Seminar (New Year's Holiday)
1/13/05 Physiologic Studies of
Anger
Darin D. Dougherty, MD MSc
Assistant Director, Psychiatric
    Neuroimaging Research
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry                                  
Harvard Medical School
1/20/05 Imaging of Thoracic
Lymph Nodes
Suzanne L. Aquino, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
1/27/05 Canceled: Snow

February, 2005
2/3/05 Bystander Effect
Produced by Radiolabeled
Tumor Cells in Vivo and
in Vitro
Hiroko Kishikawa, PhD
Research Associate
Radiobiology & Experimental
    Radionuclide Therapy
Harvard Medical School
2/10/05 Targeted Imaging of Post-
Myocardial Infarction
Angiogenesis and
Remodeling
Albert J. Sinusas, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and
    Diagnostic Radiology
Yale University School of Medicine
2/17/05 Debate:  The Future of
SPECT is SPECT/CT
Atul Aggarwal, MD
Rajendra Badgiayan, MD
Alexandru Bageac, MD
Frederick Grant, MD
Ruth Lim, MD
Umesh Oza, MD
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
2/24/05 New Approaches to
Radiolabeled Estrogens-
Tc-99m, I-123 and F-18
Robert N. Hanson, PhD
Professor of Bio-organic and
    Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and
    Chemical Biology
Northeastern University
March, 2005
3/3/05 Cardiovascular PET-CT Ahmed A. Tawakol, MD
Associate Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medicial School
3/10/05 Simultaneous Dual-tracer
(99m-Tc/123-I) Striatal
SPECT Imaging: Theoretical
Considerations
Marie F. Kijewski, ScD
Associate Physicist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
3/17/05 No Seminar (Research Forum)
3/24/05 Radionuclide Evaluation
the Gastrointestinal
Tract
Giuliano Mariani, MD
Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Director
Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine
University of Pisa Medical School
    and PET Department
CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology
Pisa, Italy
3/31/05
New Approaches to
Alzheimer's Disease:
Amyloid and DAT Imaging
Keith A. Johnson, MD
Associate Radiologist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Physician, Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital and
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
April, 2005
4/7/05 The Future of
Cardiovascular Imaging
with PET
David R. Elmaleh, PhD
Director of Contrast Media Chemistry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
4/14/05 Imaging Apoptosis and
Tumor Cell Proliferation
in Tumor-bearing Mice can
Predict Dormancy of
Metastases
Elham Safaie Semnani, MD
Research Fellow
Division of Radiobiology & Experimental
    Radionuclide Therapy
Harvard Medical School
4/21/05
DNA Strand Breaks by
Auger Electrons:
Puzzle and Paradigm
Balagurumoorthy Pichumani, PhD
Research Fellow
Division of Radiobiology & Experimental
    Radionuclide Therapy
Radiology Department
Harvard Medical School
4/28/05 Quantitative Dynamic
Rb-82 Cardiac PET
George El Fakhri, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
  May, 2005
5/5/05 No Seminar (Clinical Nuclear Medicine '05)
5/12/05 Intraoperative Optical/
Nuclear Imaging for
Sentinel Lymph Node
Mapping  and Cancer
Resection
John V. Frangioni, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
5/19/05
Imaging Viral Oncolysis
by microPET
Darshini Kuruppu, PhD
Research Fellow
Surgical Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
5/26/05 Relationship between
ST-segment Depression
and Myocardial Perfusion
Defecits
Thomas H. Hauser, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical Schooll
June, 2005
6/2/05
No Seminar (Research Forum)
6/9/05 SNM Abstract Rehearsal
6/16/05 SNM Abstract Rehearsal

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