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Flower Seminars in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
2011/2012 Academic Year
Where: Harvard Medical School Quad
at Longwood Avenue and Louis Pasteur
Fred S. Rosen, M.D. Lecture Hall

When: Thursdays, 8:00 AM Sharp!
Directions:
1st Floor, Modell Center, Armenise Bldg.
September 2011
Date
Topic
Presenter
9/22/2011 Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Using F-18 Labeled Rhodamines Mark Bartholoma, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
9/29/2011 Standardization of Imaging and Qualification of Imaging Biomarkers Jeffrey T. Yap, Ph.D.
Senior Diagnostic Physicist
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
October 2011
Date
Topic
Presenter
10/6/2011 MRI Beyond Conventional Contrast: CEST and Sodium Imaging Elena Vinogradov, Ph.D.
Division of MR Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
10/13/2011 Under-recognized Physiological Aspects of General Nuclear Medicine Studies Chun K. Kim, M.D.
Clinical Director of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Brigham & Women's Hospital Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
10/20/2011 Optical Imaging - From Mouse to Man Umar Mahmood, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Director, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Division
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
10/27/2011 MRI of the Pulmonary Veins and Left Atrium Thomas H. Hauser, MD, MMSc, MPH, FACC
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
November 2011
Date
Topic
Presenter
11/3/2011 PET: Quantitative Assessment of Myocardial Blood Flow, Function, Metabolism Henry Gerwitz, M.D.
Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
11/10/2011 Functional Brain Imaging: Diagnosis, DSM-5, and Task Behavior Robert L. Savoy, Ph.D.
Clinical Instructor in Radiology
Athinoula A. Martinos Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
11/17/2011 Spatial Frequency-Domain Imaging for Image-Guided Surgery Sylvain Gioux, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
11/24/2011 No Seminar (Thanksgiving)  
December 2011
Date
Topic
Presenter
12/1/2011 Radioimmunotherapy of Hematologic Malignancies with Monoclonal 131I-L19SIP, an Anti-oncofetal Giuliano Mariano, M.D.
Professor of Nuclear Medicine
Director, Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine
University of Pisa Medical School
Pisa, Italy
12/8/2011 An Image-guided Precision Small-animal Irradiator for Advanced Pre-Clinical Therapy Research Ross Berbeco, Ph.D.
Physicist
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Harvard Medical School
12/15/2011 Design and Development of Nerve-Specific Fluorophores for Image-Guided Surgery Summer Gibbs-Strauss, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical Center
12/22/2011 No Seminar/Holiday Break  
12/29/2011 No Seminar/Holiday Break  
January 2012
Date
Topic
Presenter
1/5/2012 No Seminar/Holiday Break  
1/12/2012 Lessons Learned from the PET Drug ANDA Submission Process Ronald J. Callahan, Ph.D.
Director of Nuclear Pharmacy
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
1/19/2012 New PET Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer and Brain Imaging Neil Vasdev, Ph.D.
Director of Radiochemistry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Lecturer on Radiology
Harvard Medical School
1/26/2012 Radiotracer Development and Applications in Academia and Industry Rikki N. Waterhouse, Ph.D.
Director, PTx Precision Medicine - Clinial Imaging, Diagnostics and Quantitative Measures
Pfizer Worldwide R&D
Groton, CT
February 2012
Date
Topic
Presenter
2/2/2012 Personal Genome-Subtractive Cancer Detection Blood Assay Amin I. Kassis, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology
Radiation Biology Laboratory
Harvard Medical School
2/9/2012 Review of the Biology of EGFR Activating Mutations and Pertinent Clinical Trials Involving EGFR Mutated Lung Cancers and EGFR Inhibitors Daniel B. Costa, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
2/16/2012 Focused Cancer Treatment: From Drug Delivery Systems to Programmed Nano Robots Avi Schroeder, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Langer Lab
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/23/2011 Use of Classical and Bayesian Statistics in Medical Imaging and Beyond Arkadiusz Sitek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
March 2012
Date
Topic
Presenter
3/1/2012 Selective Intraarterial Radiotherapy of Liver Tumors with Y-90 Microspheres: Treatment-planning Considerations Stefan P. Muller, M.D.
Senior Attending Physician
Nuclear Medicine Clinic
Universitatsklinikum Essen
Germany
3/8/2012 Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging Ciprian Catana, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Integrated MR-PET Imaging
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Department of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
3/15/2012 Using Imaging to Understand Brown Adipose Tissue Physiology Aaron M. Cypess, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Joslin Diabetes Center
Harvard Medical School
3/22/2012 Canceled
3/29/2012 Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI for Imaging of Perfusion and Metabolism Aaron K. Grant, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
April 2012
Date
Topic
Speaker
4/5/2012 Update on Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias Daniel Z. Press, M.D.
Director of Training and Education
Cognitive Neurology Unit
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
4/12/2012 JPNM Debate: Resolved
In Five Years, PET/MR Will Replace PET/CT as the Workhorse of PET
Kevin Lightner, M.D.
Maria Parayno, M.D.
Ilana Warsofsky, M.D.
Lei Qin, Ph.D.
Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine Harvard Medical School
4/19/2012 A Look at Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Through a Chemistry Lens Robert N. Hanson, Ph.D.
Mathews Distinguished University Professor
Professor of Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
Northeastern University
4/26/2012 Coronary Microvascular Function in Cardiac Amyloidosis Sharmila Dorbala, M.D., MPH
Director of Nuclear Cardiology
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
May 2012
Date
Topic
Presenter
5/3/2012 Beta Amyloid in Normal Aging:
What Does it Mean?
Michael D. Devous, Sr., Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology and Neurology
Director, Neuroimaging Cores, Alzheimer's Disease Center and North Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Model System
Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas
5/10/2012 Anatomo-Metabolic Imaging Patterns of Tumor Invasion and Metastasis of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Victor H. Gerbaudo, Ph.D.
Director, Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Program
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
5/17/2012 No Seminar
Clinical Nuclear Medicine/PET 2012
 
5/24/2012 Molecular Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury Alexander Lin, Ph.D.
MR Spectroscopist
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Instructor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
5/29/2012 Abstract Rehearsal TBA
June 2012
Date
Topic
Presenter
6/7/2012 SNM Abstract Rehearsal
"Long Term Risks of I-131 - Myth or Reality?"
J. Anthony Parker, M.D., Ph.D.
6/14/2012 Small Animal SPECT/CT and SPECT/MRI Fusion Imaging Hirofumi Fujii, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Research Center for Innovative Oncology
National Cancer Center Hospital East
Kashiwa, Japan
FRIDAY 6/22/2012 The Synthesis of Metal Complexes and Conjugates for Application in Nuclear Medicine Paul Donnelly, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
University of Melbourne, Australia
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