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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2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
September, 2005
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/15/05
No Seminar (Research Forum)
9/22/05
BEIR VII
Richard Monson, MD SD
Professor of Epidemiology
Departments of Epidemiology and
    Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
9/29/05
New Generation
Radiotracer Development:
Application to PET
Imaging Studies of
Substance Abuse, ADHD,
and Depression
Yu-Shin Ding, PhD
Head of Radiotracer Development
Neuroscience and Imaging Group
Chemistry Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Stony Brook University
October, 2005
10/6/05 Measurement of
Neurotransmitter
Release with PET:
Dopamine and Serotonin
Richard E. Carson, PhD
Co-Director, Yale PET Center
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and
    Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
10/13/05 No Seminar (Yom Kippur)
10/20/05 Genomics-Based Diagnosis
and Prognosis of Cancer:
Changing the Paradigm of
Clinical Management
Gavin J. Gordon, PhD
Co-Director
Thoracic Surgery Oncology Laboratory
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
10/27/05 Bioinformatics and
Computational Chemistry
in the Design of
Radiopharmaceuticals
Pavel Pospisil, PhD
Research Fellow
Experimental Radionuclide Therapy
Harvard Medical School
November, 2005
11/3/05 Design and Performance
Considerations for
an Intraoperative
Coded Aperture
Radioscintigraphic
Imaging System
Hirofumi Fujii, MD PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
11/10/05
Pulmonary Embolism:
New Imaging Strategies
for the Same Disease
Frank J. Rybicki MD, PhD
Co-Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Section
Director, Applied Imaging Science Laboratory
Department of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
11/17/05 Assessment of Therapeutic
Response in Patients with
Cancer:
Should we Revisit RECIST?
Annick D. Van den Abbeele, MD
Clinical Director of Radiology
Director of Nuclear Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
11/24/05 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
December, 2005
12/1/05
Introduction to
Neuroreceptor
Quantification
with PET and SPECT
Masanori Ichise, MD
Director Brain Molecular Imaging Program
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
12/8/05 Interactions Between
Anatomy and Physiology
in Cardiac Imaging:
Lessons from PET/CT
Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD, FACC
 Chief Nuclear Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
12/15/05 No Seminar (Research Forum)
12/22/05 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
12/29/05
No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2006
1/5/06
No Seminar (New Year's Holiday)
1/12/06 Impact of PET Scanning
on the Management of
Thyroid Cancer
Richard J. Robbins, MD FACP
Chairman, Department of Medicine
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Professor of Medicine
Cornell University
1/19/06 Development of PET
Radiotracers for the
Brain Cannabinoid System
S. John Gatley, PhD
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University
1/26/06 Debate: In the Era of
PET/CT and Whole Body
FDG, Will There Still
Be a Role for Other
PET and/or SPECT
tracers?

Elham Safaie, MD
John Millstine, MD
Jan Stauss, MD
Gethin Williams, MBBS, PhD
Residents
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
February, 2006
2/2/06 Imaging Dopamine Receptor
Function using MRI
Bruce G. Jenkins, PhD
Director, Neurochemical Imaging
NMR-Center and Athinoula A. Martinos
    Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
2/9/06 The Role of PET and
PET/CT in the
of Novel Cancer Therapy
Jeffrey T. Yap, PhD
Senior Diagnostic Physicist
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
2/16/06 3.0 Dimensional Imaging
in Nuclear Medicine
Using Point Clouds
Arkadiusz Sitek, PhD
Scientist / Physicist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2/23/06 Partial Volume and
Spillover Compensation to
Improve Diagnostic and
Quantitative Accuracy of
Cardiac Perfusion SPECT
P. Hendrik Pretorius, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Radiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
March, 2006
3/2/06 Using PET Hypoxia
Markers and FDG to
Image Tumor
Microenvironment
Andrei Pugachev, PhD
Instructor
Department of Medical Physics
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
3/9/06 Validation of Absorbed-
dose Calculation using
a Coumarin-based Liquid
Dosimeter for Patient-
specific Dosimetry
Mi-Ae Park, PhD
Instructor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
3/16/06
No Seminar (Research Forum)
3/23/06 Risk Communication: Why
Our Fears Don't Match
the Facts, Closing the
Perception Gap
David Ropeik
Instructor in Risk Communication
Harvard School of Public Health
3/30/06
PET Reconstruction Using
Natural Pixels
Stephen Glick, PhD
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics
Research Associate Professor of Radiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
April, 2006
4/6/06 Structure-Based Drug
Design: Synthesis of
Estrogen Receptor-alpha
Ligand Binding
Robert N. Hanson, PhD
Professor of Bio-organic and
        Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and
    Chemical Biology
Northeastern University
4/13/06 Complementary Aspects of
Diffusion Imaging
and fMRI
Robert V. Mulkern PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
4/20/06
Imaging The Pulmonary
Veins: Current Challenges
and Future Opportunities
Thomas H. Hauser MD
Cheif, Nuclear Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
4/27/06 CARs and SUVs on the FDG
PET-CT Highway
Scott Britz-Cunningham, MD PhD
Instructor in Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
  May, 2006
5/4/06
In Vivo Imaging of
Cellular Proliferation
Robert H. Mach, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Division of Radiological Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine
5/11/06 No Seminar (Clinical Nuclear Medicine '06)
5/18/06
Canceled  
5/25/06 SNM Abstract Rehearsal
June, 2006
6/1/06
SNM Abstract Rehearsal
6/8/06 No Seminar (SNM Annual Meeting)
6/15/06
No Seminar (Research Forum): Canceled

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