JPNMSeminar Schedule
Fall 1997 - Spring 1998
October, 1997 
Date  Title  Speaker 
10/23/97 Cell Survival and DNA 
Damage Following the 
Intranuclear Decay of the 
Alpha Emitter 
Astatine-211 
Margaret A. Walicka, PhD 
Research Fellow 
Radiation Biology Laboratory 
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School 
10/30/97  Canceled  
November, 1997 
11/6/97  Gated SPECT Part III Finn Mannting, MD PhD 
Director, Clinical Nuclear Medicine 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School 
11/13/97 Revision of the 
Regulations governing the 
"Medical Use of Byproduct 
Material"
William A. Lorenzen, M.S. 
Radiation Safety Officer 
Children's Hospital
11/20/97 F-18 FDG and Tc-99m 
Sestamibi Dual Isotope 
SPECT:  Clinical 
Application 
Hiro Yasuda, MD 
Nuclear Cardiology Unit 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
11/27/97 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
December, 1997 
12/4/97  High Resolution and 
Sensitivity PET Studies 
in Animal Models
Anna-Liisa Brownell, PhD 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
12/11/97 Pediatric Skeletal 
Scintigraphy: An Overview 
For Residents, Fellows, 
and Other Interested 
Parties
Leonard P. Connolly, MD  
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Children's Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
12/18/97 Management of Colorectal 
Cancer with Radiolabelled 
Antibodies
Hani H. Abdel-Nabi, MD, PhD 
Physician-in-Charge 
Department of Nuclear Medicine 
State University of New York at Buffalo
12/25/97 No Seminar (Holiday Break) 
January, 1998
1/1/98 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/8/98 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/15/98 Phase IV Development of 
Radiopharmaceutical 
Products:  The Miraluma 
Story
Timothy R. Carroll 
Director of Medical Marketing 
Du Pont Merck Pharmaceuticals 
Billerica, MA
1/22/98 PET and Drug Development Alan J. Fishman, MD PhD 
Director of Nuclear Medicine 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
1/29/98 Antimyosin Scintigraphy: 
Basic Physiologic 
Characteristics and 
Clinical Application
Hiro Yasuda, MD 
Nuclear Cardiology Unit 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
February, 1998
2/5/98 Canceled: Snow
2/12/98 Lung Scan Evaluation of 
Pulmonary Embolism
J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD  
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Harvard Medical School
2/19/98 PET Radiopharmaceuticals 
and Cancer Treatment
Michael J. Welch. PhD  
Director of Radiation Sciences 
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology  
Professor of Radiology and Chemistry 
Washington University
2/26/98 Copper, Multidrug 
Resistance, and PET
Alan B. Packard, PhD   
Senior Research Associate 
Children's Hospital 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
March, 1998
3/5/98 Attenuation Correction 
in SPECT Using Emission 
Data Alone
Stephen C. Moore, PhD 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
3/12/98 No Seminar
3/19/98 Regulatory Activities of 
a 97 kda Protein in 
Breast Cancer
Aniruddha Gangopadhyay, PhD 
Associate Scientist 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Instructor in Surgery 
Harvard Medical School
3/26/98 More 
Lung Scan Evaluation of 
Pulmonary Embolism
J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD  
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Harvard Medical School
April, 1998
4/2/98 Cerebral perfusion SPECT: 
recent developments
Keith A. Johnson, MD 
Assistant Professor of Neurology 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
4/9/98 Delivery of Molecular 
and Cellular Medicine to 
Solid Tumors
Rakesh K. Jain, PhD 
Director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory 
Radiation Oncology Department 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
A. Werk Cook Professor 
     of Tumor Biology 
Harvard Medical School
4/13/98 William D. Kaplan Lecture 
Jimmy Fund Auditorium
1:30 PM
Nuclear Medicine in 
Oncology:  Present and 
Future
Steven M. Larson, MD 
Chief, Nuclear Medicine Service 
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 
Professor of Radiology
4/16/98 In vivo Evaluation of 
Tumor Neo-angiogenesis in 
Human Tumors with the Aid 
of a Radiolabeled 
Monoclonal Antibody (BC-1) 
Against the Oncofetal, B+ 
Variant of Fibronectin
Guiliano Mariani, MD 
Director, Nuclear Medicine Service 
Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine 
University of Genoa Medical School 
     and S. Martino Hospital 
Genoa, Italy
4/23/98 No Seminar (Clinical Nuclear Medicine '98)
4/30/98 The PET Program at NIH William C. Eckelman, PhD 
Chief, PET Department 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, MD
May, 1998
5/7/98 Current Issues in 
Reimbursement and Payment 
Policy
Kenneth A. McKusick, MD 
Chair, Coding and Reimbursement Committee 
Society of Nuclear Medicine
5/14/98 Same Old PET Slides J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD  
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
Harvard Medical School
5/21/98 Research with Brain SPECT 
Before and After 
Acupuncture Treatment for 
Paralysis in Stroke
Margaret A. Naeser, PhD LAc 
Research Professor of Neurology 
Boston University School of Medicine 
Director, Neuroimaging Section 
Boston University Aphasia Research Center 
Boston VA Medical Center 
Invited by: Donald Tow, MD
5/28/98 PET Studies of 
Pediatric Tumors
Barry Shulkin, MD 
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine 
Division of Nuclear Medicine 
Director, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine 
University of Michigan
June, 1998
6/4/98 Abstract Presentations
6/11/98 No Seminar (SNM Annual Meeting)