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 rm 132. 
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/about/maps/quadmap.html
Time: 8:00 AM sharp

JPNM Seminar Schedule
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Fall 2006 - Spring 2007
September, 2006
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/14/06
No Seminar (Research Forum)
9/21/06
Novel Prodrug for
Targeting Prostate
Tumor
Pavel Pospisil, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Radiobiology & Experimental
    Radionuclide Therapy

Harvard Medical School
9/28/06
Geometric Design
Considerations in
Molecular Imaging
Instrumentation
Stephen C. Moore, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
October, 2006
10/5/06 Chernobyl, 20th
Anniversary
Kevin J. Donohoe, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
10/12/06
Accurate Modeling of PET
Imaging using Monte Carlo
Simulation
Bastien Guérin, MS
Research Fellow
Department of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
10/19/06 A Novel Therapeutic
Target for Androgen-
independent Prostate
Cancer
Guo-Fu Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
10/26/06 Diagnostic and Prognostic
Value of Rubidium-82
Myocardial Perfusion
Imaging with PET/CT
Sharmila Dorbala, MBBS
Associate Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Instructor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
November, 2006
11/2/06 Reporter Genes and Stem
Cells - A Challenge for
Nuclear Cardiology
Frank M. Bengel, MD
Director of Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
11/9/06
Molecular Imaging as a
Key Enabling Tool in Drug
Development
Timothy J. McCarthy, PhD
Director, Global Clinical Technolgy
Pfizer, Inc.
11/16/06 Prognostic Significant
of Contrast Enhanced
Cardiac Magnetic
Resonance Imaging from
Coronary Artery Disease
Raymond Y. Kwong, MD MPH
Co-director, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and
    Computed Tomography
Cardiovascular Division
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
11/23/06 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
11/30/06
Quantitative Cardiac PET
Imaging
Georges El Fakhri, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
December, 2006
Friday
12/1/06
8:00
Treatment of Skeletal
Metastases with
Bone-seeking
Radiopharmaceuticals:
Beyond Simple Palliation
Giuliano Mariani, MD
Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Director
Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine
University of Pisa Medical School
Pisa, Italy
12/7/06 Radiation-induced
Aromatic Hydroxylation
to Detect Hydroxyl
Radicals
Amarjit Singh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Radiobiology & Experimental
    Radionuclide Therapy

Harvard Medical School
12/14/06 No Seminar (Research Forum)
12/21/06 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
12/28/06
No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2007
1/4/07
No Seminar (New Year's Holiday)
1/11/07 Imaging Angiogenesis and
Antiangiogenic Treatment
Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Stanford University
1/18/07 PET Imaging of Cancer
with Copper-64-
thiosemicarbazones
Jason S. Lewis PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Friday
1/19/07
PET Tracers of
Lipid Metabolism
Timothy DeGrado, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Biochemistry, and
    Molecular Biology
Indiana Univesity School of Medicine
1/25/07 Assessing Reconstruction
Strategies for Lung
Lesion Detection in SPECT

Howard Gifford, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Departmant of Radiology
U Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
February, 2007
2/1/07 PET Imaging of
Serotonin Transporters
Makiko Suehiro, PhD
Research Associate
Department of Medical Physics
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
2/8/07 PET Radiotracers for
Imaging Caspase-3
Activation in Apoptosis
and PARP-1 Hyperactivation
in Necrosis
Robert H. Mach, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Division of Radiological Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine
2/15/07 PET Oncology: from Bench
to Bedside
Mei Tian, PhD MD
Department of Nuclear Medicine
    and Medical PET Center
Second Hospital of Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2/22/07 Debate:  The Use of
Contrast is Necessary
for PET/CT and
SPECT/CT
Sonal Arjuna, MD MBBS
Bobby K. Kang, MD
Jason J. Ma, MD
Peter H. Rosal, MD
Christopher G. Sakellis, MD
Nuclear Medicine Residents
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
March, 2007
3/1/07 Clinical Benefits of
Time-of-Flight PET
Piotr J. Maniawski, MS
Senior Manager, PET/CT Clinical Science
Philips Medical Systems
Friday
3/2/07
Development of PET
Tracers for
Molecular Imaging
J.S. Dileep Kumar, PhD
Research Scientist
PET chemistry, Drug Development and
    Neuro-psychopharmacology
Department of
    Psychiatry/Neuroscience         
New York State Psychiatric Institute,
Columbia University, New York
3/8/07
No Seminar (Research Forum)
3/15/07
Positron Science and
Its Implications for
Drug Discovery and
Development

Suzanne V. Smith, PhD
ARC Centre of Excellence  in
    Anti-matter Studies (CAMS)

Australian Nuclear Science and
    Technology (ANSTO)
 Australia
3/22/07 Dosimetry for PET/CT
David E. Drum MD PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Boston VA Medical Center
Harvard medicial School
3/29/07
Regulatory Revisions -
A Post Mortem
William A. Lorenzen, MS
Radiation & Health Physicist
Children's Hospital Boston
April, 2007
4/5/07 Predicting Substrate
Binding Specificity to
Facilitate RadioProdrug
Design
Yongliang Yang, PhD
Research Fellow
Radiobiology & Experimental
    Radionuclide Therapy
Harvard Medical School
4/12/07 Novel Approaches to
Bone Metastases
Oliver Sartor, MD
Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
4/19/07
Roles of  ATP and
Purines in Imaging and
Therapeutics

Edward H. Abraham, MD
Chief of the Department of Oncology Services
Chief, Radiation Oncology
Saints Medical Center
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Tufts-New England Medical Center
4/26/07 Multi-modality Animal
Imaging on Clinical and
Pre-clinical PET, CT,
and SPECT Scanners
Jeffrey T. Yap, PhD
Senior Diagnostic Physicist
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
  May, 2007
5/3/07
Evaluation of Mandibular
Bone Growth
Frederic H. Fahey, DSc
Director of Nuclear Medicine Physics
Children's Hospital Boston
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Friday
5/4/07
Molecular Imaging of
Hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy in Rats
Using microPET and
Pinhole SPECT
Grant T Gullberg PhD
Senior Staff Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adjunct Professor of Radiology
University of California San Francisco
5/10/07
Rapid Preparation of
Targeted Tc-99m and F-18
Radiotracers
Preeti Misra, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Frangioni Laboratory
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Research Fellow in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
5/17/07
A Calibration Phantom
for Multi-Center PET/CT
Studies of Assessing
Response to Therapy

Paul E. Kinahan, PhD
Imaging Research Laboratory
Associate Professor of Radiology
Adjunct Associate Professor of
    Bioengineering
University of Washington
5/24/07
No Seminar (Clinical Nuclear Medicine 2007)
5/31/07 SNM Abstract Rehearsal
June, 2007
6/7/07
No Seminar (SNM Annual Meeting)
6/14/07 No Seminar (Research Forum)
6/21/07
12:00
Noon
Review Process at NIH
and Recent Changes in
the Process
Lee Rosen, PhD
Scientific Revew Administrator
Biomedical Imaging Technology Section
Center fo Scientific Review
National Institutes of Health
Washington, DC
6/28/07
Simultaneous PET / NMR
and Isolated Heart
Metabolism: New Insights
and Potential Applications
Dr. Richard Southworth, PhD
Lecturer in Cardiac Molecular Imaging
Division of Imaging Sciences
Guy's Hospital
London

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