JPNMSeminar Schedule
Fall 1996 - Spring 1997
September, 1996
Date Title Speaker
9/12/96 Towards comprehensive
evaluation of Renal
Artery Stenosis by MRI
P.V. Prasad, PhD
Instructor in Radiology
Beth Israel Hospital
Harvard Medical School
9/19/96 Radiolabeled IUDR in the
Diagnosis of Infection
and the Therapy of Cancer
Amin I. Kassis, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
9/26/96 Cerebral Vasospasm
Following Subarachnoid
Hemorrhage
Rachel Powsner, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Boston University Medical Center
Boston University School of Medicine
October, 1996
10/3/96 The Role of Diagnostic
Imaging in Malignant
Lymphoma
Milos J. Janicek, PhD MD
Instructor in Radiology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
10/10/96 RadioiodoHoechst 33342:
Synthesis, DNA Binding,
Radiobiologic Effects,
and Biodistribution
Studies
Ravi S. Harapanhalli, PhD
Research Fellow in Radiology
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
10/17/96 Dopamine Transportor:
PET and SPECT
Alan J. Fischman, MD PhD
Director of Nuclear Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
10/24/96 Medical Imaging
Infrastructure:
Delivering Images in a
Clinical Environment
( Abstract )
C. Forbes Dewey, Jr. PhD
Co-Director
ICMIT , International Consortium
for Medical Imaging Technology
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/31/96 PET Studies of
Neuroblastoma and
Pheochromocytoma
Barry Shulkin, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Director, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine
University of Michigan
November, 1996
11/7/96 DMSO Can Protect
Mammalian Cells against
Decay of DNA-incorporated
Iodine-125
Malgorzata A. Walicka, PhD
Research Fellow in Radiology
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
11/14/96 Radiolabeling Leukocytes
with Tc-99m Stannous
Chloride Colloid for
Detection of Inflammatory
Inflammatory Lesions
Chih-Chou Yu, PhD
Chemist
Brockton / West Roxbury VA Medical Center
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
11/21/96 Characterization of
Multi-drug Resistance
in Vivo
James M. Croop, MD PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and
Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
11/28/96 No Seminar (Thanksgiving)
December, 1996
12/5/96 Instrument Quality
Assurance: What is
Required
Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE
Principal Associate in Radiology (Physics)
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
12/12/96 The Principal Components
of Cerebral Perfusion:
Preclinical Diagnosis of
Alzheimer's disease
Keith A. Johnson, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
12/19/96 The Harvard/MIT Boron
Neutron Capture Therapy
Program: A White Hat
Activity for the U.S.
Department of Energy and
what it Means for Brain
Tumor Patients
Robert G. Zamenhof, PhD
Director of Radiological Physics
Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
12/26/96 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 1997
1/2/97 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/9/97 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/16/97 Regulatory Activities of
a CEA-binding Protein in
Colorectal Cancer
Metastasis
Aniruddha Gangopadhayay, PhD
Associate Scientist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor in Surgery
Harvard Medical School
1/23/97 Oxygen Enhanced
Ventilation MRI of the
Human Lungs
Qun Chen, PhD
Staff Physicist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
1/30/97 Preoperative Cardiac Risk
Assessment
Mylan C. Cohen, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
February, 1997
2/6/97 Acute Myocardial
Perfusion Imaging:
New Developments and
New Concepts
Gary V. Heller, MD PhD
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Hartford Hospital
Professor Medicine
University of Connecticut
School of Medicine
2/13/97 CME: Lung Scans J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
2/20/97 FlashPlate: A Platform
for Every Assay
Beverly A. Brown, PhD
Development Manager
NEN Life Sciences
2/27/97 Visualization Programming Douglas J. Wagenaar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
March, 1997
3/6/97 Current Developments in
Regulatory Aspects of
Radiation Safety in
Nuclear Medicine
William A. Lorenzen, MS
Radiation Safety Officer
Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
3/13/97 The Effect of Scatter
Subtraction on Detection
and Estimation in Hepatic
SPECT Imaging
Daniel de Vries, PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Department of Nuclear Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
3/20/97 Canceled
3/27/97 Nucleic Acid
Radiopharmaceuticals for
Diagnosis and Therapy
Ronald D. Neumann, MD
Chief, Nuclear Medicine Department
National Institutes of Health
April, 1997
4/3/97 No Seminar (Clinical Nuclear Medicine '97)
4/10/97 Imaging the Brain
Dopamine System
Bertha K. Madras, PhD
Associate Professor Physchobiology
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
4/17/97 The Significance of RV
Uptake in SPECT Myocardial
Perfusion Studies
Finn Mannting, MD PhD
Director, Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
4/24/97 Statistical Parameter
Mapping and Functional
Brain Imaging:
Ready for Prime Time?
Elizabeth Matthew, MD
Director of Neuroscience Research
Deptartment of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
West Campus
Assistant Professor of Radiology & Neurology
Harvard Medical School
May, 1997
5/1/97 Strategies for
Radiopharmaceutical
Design: Synthesis of
Pharmacologically
Compatible Prosthetic
Groups (PCPGs)
Robert Hanson, PhD
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
and Chemistry
Department of Pharmaceutical Science
Northeastern University
5/8/97 SPECT Myocardial
Perfusion At Last On The
Web, How To Use It And
How We Did It
Puneet Chandak, MD
Fellow in Medical Informatics and
and Nuclear Medicine
Finn Mannting, MD PhD
Director, Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
5/15/97 Was Exposure to Chernoble
Teratogenetic?
Frank P. Castronovo, PhD
Head of Department of Health Physics
and Radiopharmacology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
5/22/97 SNM Abstracts
5/29/97 SNM Abstracts
June, 1997
6/5/97 No Seminar (SNM Annual Meeting)