JPNMSeminar Schedule
Fall 1999 - Spring 2000
September, 1999 
Date  Title  Speaker 
9/23/99 Release of Patients
Administered Radioactive
Material
Frank P. Castronovo, PhD
Radiation Safety Officer
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
9/30/99 Pharmacodynamic Studies
of Radiolabeled GCSF
James F. Kronauge, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Associate Director, JPNM Radiopharmacy
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
October, 1999
10/7/99 Angiogenesis -Laser DMR Roger J. Laham, MD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
10/14/99 No Seminar
10/21/99 Fused Imaging for
Oncology with a Combined
PET/CT Scanner
David W. Townsend, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Senior PET Physicist and
Co-Director, PET Facility
University of Pittsburgh
Invited by: Stephen C. Moore, PhD
10/28/99 Y-90 Labelled Anti-
CD20 Therapy for Low
Grade Lymphoma
Robin M. Joyce, MD
Instructor in Medicine
J. Anthony Parker, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
November, 1999
11/4/99 The Content and Format of
Investigator-initiated
IND Submissions of
Radiopharmaceutical and
Medical Imaging Drugs
Ravi S. Harapanhalli, PhD
Reviewer, Medical Imaging and
    Radiopharmaceutical Drug Products
Food and Drug Administration
11/11/99 No Seminar (Veteran's Day)
11/18/99 Clinical Experience with
with Recombinant Human
TSH (Thyrogen) in the
Management of Patients
with Differentiated
Thyroid Cancer
Giuliano Mariani, MD
Director, Nuclear Medicine Service
Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine
University of Genoa Medical School
     and S. Martino Hospital
Genoa, Italy
11/25/99 No Seminar (Thanksgiving) 
December, 1999
12/2/99 Therapy of Carcinomatous
Meningitis with
Methotrexate and 5-[I-125]
Iodo-2'-Deoxyuridine
Amin I. Kassis, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Radiation Biology Laboratory
Harvard Medical School
12/9/99 I-131 Anti CD-20
Radioimmunotherapy of
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma,
Experience in Relapsed
Disease and as Primary
Therapy
Richard L. Wahl, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
    and Radiology
Director, General Nuclear Imaging
Director, Cancer Radiopharmaceutical
    Program, University of Michigan
    Comprehensive Cancer Center
Supported by: Coulter Pharmaceutical
12/16/99 Free Radical Dosimetry
in Bone
John F. Copeland, PhD
Director of Clinical Physics
Department of Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
12/23/99 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
12/30/99 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
January, 2000
1/6/00 No Seminar (Holiday Break)
1/13/00 Application of Radio-
halogenation Chemistry to 
the Development of
Targeted Radiotherapeutics
for CNS Malignancies
Michael R. Zalutsky, PhD
Director, Radiophamaceutical
    Chemistry Research
Professor of Radiology
Duke University
1/20/00 Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation (TMS)
Avaro Pascual-Leone, MD PhD
Director, Laboratory for Magnetic
    Brain Stimulation
Behavioral Neurology Unit
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
1/27/00 Genome-wide screening for
Mismatches, Mutations and
DNA damage:  Implications
for Early Cancer
Diagnosis and Therapy
G. Mike Makrigiorgos, PhD
Head, Dosimetry and Biophysics
Brigham - Dana Farber - Children's
    Radiation Therapy
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Harvard Medical School
February, 2000
2/3/00 SPECT Imaging of Dopamine
Transporters in Patients
with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder
Alan J. Fischman, MD PhD
Director, Nuclear Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
2/10/00 MR contrast agents:
Current and Future
Applications
Robert E. Lenkinski, PhD
Director of Experimental Radiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
2/17/00 Improving Diagnostic Task
Performance in Oncologic
SPECT and PET
Stephen C. Moore, PhD
Senior Physicist
Joint Program in Nuclear
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
2/24/00 Aspects of Quantitative
3D PET: Detector
Normalization
Ramsey D. Badawi, PhD
PET Physicist
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Harvard Medical School
March, 2000
3/2/00 Quantitative SPECT:
Neurologic Applications
Marie F. Kijewski, ScD
Associate Physicist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
3/9/00 The Evolution of Decision
Analysis and Technology
Assessment in Radiology
and Nuclear Medicine over
the Last 20 Years
Barbara J. McNeil, PhD, MD
Department Chairperson
Ridley Watts Professor of
    Health Care Policy
Department of Health Care Policy
Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
3/16/00 Radiolabeled IUdR for the
Diagnosis and Therapy of
Lung Cancers
Amin I. Kassis, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Radiation Biology Laboratory
Harvard Medical School
3/23/00 PET Technology on the
Verge to an Accepted
Clinical Method
York Haemisch, PhD
Product Manager PET - Global
ADAC Laboritories
Milpitas, CA
3/30/00 Application of Neural
Networks and Factor
Analysis to Scatter and
Cross-talk Compensation
in SPECT
Georges El Fakhri, PhD 
Research Associate
Department of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
April, 2000

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4/6/00 Complication of Exercise
and Pharmacological
Stress Test in Younger
and Elderly Patients
Hiro Yasuda, MD 
Nuclear Medicine / Cardiology 
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
4/11/00 William D. Kaplan Lecture
Louis Bornstein Family Amphitheater
Brigham and Women's Hospital
12:15 PM
Molecular Imaging:
From Metabolism to Gene
Expression, from Mouse
to Human
Michael E. Phelps, PhD
Norton Simon Professor
Chair, Department of Molecular
    & Medical Pharmacology
Director, Crump Institute for
    Biological Imaging
Associate Director, Laboratory of 
    Structural Biology & Molecular Medicine
Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine at UCLA
4/13/00 Selective Transcription
Makes Each Tissue Unique
Gerald M. Kolodny, MD
Chief, Nuclear Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
4/20/00 Update in Nuclear Imaging
in the Assessment of
Myocardial Viability
Gary V. Heller, MD PhD
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Hartford Hospital
Professor Medicine
University of Connecticut
    School of Medicine
Clinical Nuclear Medicine '00
4/27/00 Peptide Approaches to
Radionuclide Imaging of
Arteriosclerosis
Scott Britz-Cunningham, MD
Resident in Pathology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
May, 2000
5/4/00 Breast and Prostate
Cancer Detection/
Verification: Sensitivity,
Economy, and Sensibility
of Organ Based Nuclear
Instrumentation
Thomas F. Budinger, MD PhD
Director, Center for Functional Imaging
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Professor of Radiology
University of California, San Francisco
Professor of Electrical Engineering
    and Computer Science
Chair, Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
5/11/00 MR-Guided SPECT in
Alzheimer's Disease
Keith A. Johnson, MD
Radiologist (Nuclear Medicine)
Associate Physician, Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
5/18/00 Thyroid Cancer Jeffrey R. Garber, MD
Chief of Endocrinology
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
5/25/00 Abstract Rehearsal
June, 2000
6/1/00 Abstract Rehearsal
SNM Annual Meeting
6/8/00 Nuclear Imaging in
Oncology - A Persistent
Challenge
Carl-Martin Kirsch MD,PhD
Professor of Nuclear Medicine
Director, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine
Saarland University Medical Center
Homburg/Saar Germany
6/15/00 Nuclear Oncology Cases Leo Ackerman, MD PhD
Attending Physician
Hines VA Hospital
Chicago, IL
July, 2000
7/6/00 Lymphoscintigraphy Roger F. Uren, MD, FRACP, DDU
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Sydney