JPNMSeminar Schedule
Fall 1998 - Spring 1999
September, 1998 
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/17/98  Clinical Conference 
9/24/98 Clinical Conference
October, 1998 
10/1/98 Scatter Correction and 
DPW in Nuclear Medicine 
Imaging
Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE 
Principal Associate in Radiology (Physics) 
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
10/8/98 The Potential of Copper, 
Iron, Gallium, and Indium 
Complexes of Novel Ligands 
for Radioimaging: 
Chemical Aspects of 
Synthesis and Structure
Roy P. Planalp, PhD
Associate Professor 
Department of Chemistry 
University of New Hampshire 
Invited by Alan Packard
10/15/98 The Pharmaceutical, 
Regulatory, and Buisness 
Aspects of the Commercial 
Regional Distribution of 
FDG
Ronald J. Callahan, PhD 
Director, Nuclear Pharmacy 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
10/22/98 Developing Image 
Registration for Clinical 
Application to Nuclear 
Medicine and 
Neuroradiology
Nathaniel M. Alpert, PhD 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
10/29/98 Myocardial Perfusion
Imaging in Acute Chest
Pain
Nathan Better, MBBS FRACP
Deputy Director of Nuclear Medicine
  and Cardiologist
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Victoria, Australia
November, 1998 
11/5/98  Evaluation of Unstable 
Angina Patients by Fasted 
FDG-MIBI SPECT. Comparison 
to Adenosine Tc-99m 
Sestamibi Stress Test
Hiro Yasuda, MD 
Nuclear Medicine / Cardiology 
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Radiology 
Harvard Medical School
11/12/98 Mechanisms Underlying the 
Biological Effects of 
Auger Electron Emitting 
Radionuclides
Margaret A. Walicka, PhD 
Research Associate in Radiology 
Radiation Biology Laboratory 
Harvard Medical School
11/19/98 Progress in Design and 
Construction of a Small 
Animal PET
Jack Correia, PhD 
Director, Cyclotron Laboratory
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Associate Professor of Radiology 
Harvard Medical School 
11/26/98 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
December, 1998
12/3/98 Methodology to evaluate 
image compression for 
PACS
Bijoy M. Misra, PhD 
Consultant, Radiology 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Faculty in Computer Science 
Harvard Extension School12/10/98
12/10/98 Manifestations of 
Toxicity of the Treatment 
in Malignant Lymphoma 
on Gallium Scan
Milos J. Janicek, MD PhD 
Assistant Professor of Radiology 
Dana Farber Cancer Institute 
Harvard Medical School
12/17/98 Development of Boron
Neutron Capture
Synovectomy for the
Treatment of Rheumatoid
Arthritis
Jacquelyn C. Yanch, PhD
Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
   and the Whitaker College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12/24/98 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
12/31/98 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 1999
1/7/99 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/14/99 Real-time Evaluation of
Renal Function in
Patients at Risk for 
Acute Renal Failure
Carlos A. Rabito, PhD MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Harvard Medical School
1/21/99 Breast Sentinel Lymph 
Node Lymphoscintigraphy
Hossein Jadvar, PhD MD
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
1/28/99 The Respective Roles of
Scatter, Attenuation, and
Collimator Response in
Cardiac SPECT
Georges El Fakhri, PhD
Research Associate in Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
February, 1999
2/4/99 Combination Chemo (MTX)
and Radio (I-125)UdR
Therapy of Tumors
Amin I. Kassis, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Radiation Biology Laboratory
Harvard Medical School
2/11/99 Gated SPECT: Part IV Finn Mannting, MD PhD
Director, Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
2/18/99 Portable PET and some
3D Iterative Image
Reconstruction Techniques
William A. Worstell, PhD
Assistant Professor of Physics
Physics Department and Center for Photonics
Boston University
2/25/99 Cardiac MRI - Current
Status and Future
Perspectives
Peter G. Danias, MD PhD
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
March, 1999
3/2/99 William D. Kaplan Lecture
Louis Bornstein Family Amphitheater
Brigham and Women's Hospital
12:30 PM
A Journey Inside the
World of Solid Tumors
Rakesh K. Jain, PhD
Director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory
Department of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
A. Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology
Harvard Medical School
3/4/99 Designing Technetium
labeled receptor specific
radiopharmaceuticals
Ashfaq Mahmood, PhD
Assistant Professor in Radiology
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
3/11/99 Esophageal Electro-
cardiography and Cardiac
Pacing
Hossein Jadvar, PhD MD
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine 
Harvard Medical School
3/18/99 Gallium Scintigraphic
Evaluation of Lymphoma
Dov Front, MD PhD
Chief, Nucear Medicine
Rambam Medical Center
Dr. Paul and Rosa N. Geyser Chair in
   Clinical Radiology
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel
3/25/99 What Do We Know about
Responses at Low
Radiation Doses?
S. James Adelstein, MD PhD
Daniel C. Tosteson University Professor
Director, Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
April, 1999
4/1/99 Malignant Transformation
of Mammalian Cells by
Tc-99m-Cardiolite
Margaret A. Walicka, PhD 
Research Associate in Radiology 
Radiation Biology Laboratory 
Harvard Medical School
4/8/99 Antisense and Nuclear
Medicine
Donald J. Hnatowich, PhD
Professor, Nuclear Medicine
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Radiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
4/15/99 Pediatric Skeletal Case
Review
Leonard P. Connolly, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Laura A. Drubach, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
4/22/99 No Seminar (Clinical Nuclear Medicine '99)
4/22/99 Morrison Lecture
Kennedy Building, G2A-B (1 Autumn Street)
Beth Israel Deaconsess Medical Center
5:00 PM
Nuclear Medicine:  The
Road to Smart Medicine
and Surgery
Henry N. Wagner, Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine, Radiology, and 
    Environmental Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
4/29/99 Radiation Safety
Self-Audits - A Checklist
for Success
William Lorenzen, MS
Radiation & Health Physicist
Children's Hospital
May, 1999
5/6/99 Recent Developments
PET Imaging Equipment and
Clinical Applications
Robert E. Zimmerman, MSEE
Principal Associate in Radiology (Physics) 
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
5/13/99 Radionuclide Imaging of
Arteriosclerosis
Scott Britz-Cunningham, MD
Resident
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
5/20/99 Role of Myocardial
Perfusion Scintigraphy in
Pre-surgical Evaluation
Thomas P. Rocco, MD
Chief of Clinical Cardiology
West Roxbury VA Hospital
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
5/27/99 16. El Fakhri G et al: Which corrections are the most important
in Tc-99m cardiac SPECT?.
483. Moore SC et al: The estimability of activity concentrations
with coincidence imaging systems.
986. Kassis AI: In vivo therapy of neoplastic meningitis with
methotrexate and 5-[125I]iodo-2'-deoxyuridine.
1377. (Poster) Kassis AI: Dimethyl sulfoxide decreases
double-strand break induction and toxicity from decay of 125I
in DNA of frozen mammalian cells.
June, 1999
6/3/99 Abstract Presentations:
52. Lin E et al: Gastric emptying during feeding: Impact on
quantitation and interpretation of liquid emptying studies in
infants and young children.
421. Jadvar H: Clinical impact of FDG PET on the management
of patients with pancreatic carcinoma: Comparison with CT and
CA19-9 serology
56. Lin E et al: Reproducibility of renal measurements using
Tc-99m DMSA SPECT.
908. (Poster) Jadvar H: "PEDIPET": Diagnostic role of FDG PET
in the evaluation of non-CNS pediatric tumors.
1451. (Exhibit) Jadvar H: Nuclear imaging in microgravity.
6/10/99 No Seminar (SNM Annual Meeting)