Grand Rounds 2007 - 2008

Tuesdays, 7:30am - 8:30am (except July & August)
Location: Clark Center - Room S360. Open attendance.

Date Title/Speaker

Sept 4, 2007

A New Rapid Acquisition Solid State Imaging System for Cardiac SPECT Imaging

Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering
Stanford University

Sept 11, 2007

Radioembolization of Hepatic Neoplasms

Dan Sze, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Stanford University

Sept 18, 2007

Imaging Amyloid

Minal Vasanawala, MD
Clinical Instructor, Palo Alto VA Health Care System
Stanford University

Sept 25, 2007

PET: Current and Emerging Applications in Radiation Therapy

Billy W. Loo, Jr., MD, PhD
Instructor & Thoracic Radiation Oncology Program Leader
Stanford University

Oct 2, 2007

Imaging and Therapy of Neuroblastoma with Radiolabeled Metaiodobenzylguanidine

Katherine K. Matthay, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
University of California, San Francisco

Oct 9, 2007

The Health Service and Medical Training in the UK

Iain Andrews, Bsc, MB ChB MRCP FRCR
Specialist Registrar in Clinical Medicine
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School
Dundee, Scotland

Oct 16, 2007

Imaging Challenges in Congenital Heart Disease

Frandics Chan, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Stanford University

Oct 23, 2007

Assembly Bill 1195, Continuing Medical Education and Thyroid Cancer: What do they have in common?

I. Ross McDougall, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Medicine
Stanford University

Oct 30, 2007

Surgery Without A Knife

John Adler, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology
Stanford University

Nov 6, 2007

Contributions of Molecular Medicine to Thyroid Cancer Care

Paul Ladenson, MD
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Johns Hopkins Medical Center

Nov 13, 2007

PET: Current and Emerging Applications in Radiation Therapy

Billy W. Loo Jr., MD, PhD
Instructor & Thoracic Radiation Oncology Program Leader
Stanford University

Nov 20, 2007

Vitamin D and Cancer

David Feldman, MD
Professor of Medicine
Stanford University

Nov 27, 2007 CANCELLED
Dec 4, 2007

Dual Energy CT

Norbert J. Pelc, ScD
Professor of Radiology, Bioengineering and
Electrical Engineering (by courtesy)
Associate Chair for Research, Department of Radiology
Stanford University

Dec 11, 2007

History of FLT - The Long Path to PET

David Dick, PhD
Head of Cyclotron Physics
Stanford University

Dec 18, 2007

Multifunctional Probes for Multimodality Imaging

Shawn Chen, PhD
Member of Academic Council
Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology
Stanford University

Dec 25, 2007 Christmas Holiday
Jan 8, 2008

New Drugs: RDRC or IND?

Dawn Banghart, CHP
Senior Health Physicist/Alternate Radiation Safety Officer, Stanford University

Jan 15, 2008

Nuclear Medicine Imaging in Pediatric Malignancies

Clare Twist, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology), Stanford University, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Jan 22, 2008

Multi-Modality Imaging of Atherosclerosis

Francis Blankenberg, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Stanford University

Jan 29, 2008

Common Tumors with Poor FDG PET Performance

Andrew Quon, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Stanford University

Feb 5, 2008

Mining High Throughput Data for Biomarker Discover

Sylvia Plevritis, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Radiology
Stanford University

Feb 12, 2008

MRI and More Recent Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine

Hans Ringertz, MD, PhD
Visiting Professor, Department of Radiology
Stanford University

Feb 19, 2008

Spatial Resolution Limits in Radionuclide Tomography

Craig Levin, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Radiology
Stanford University

Feb 26, 2008

NaF18 PET/CT Bone Scans for Evaluation of Back Pain

George Segall, MD
Professor of Radiology
Chief, VA Nuclear Medicine
Stanford University

March 4, 2008

Emerging Approaches to Thyroid Cancer Management

Electron Kebebew, MD, FACS
Endocrine Surgery and Oncology Program
Unversity of California, San Francisco

March 11, 2008 No Grand Rounds
March 18, 2008

Unusual Thyroid Function Tests

I. Ross McDougall, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Medicine
Stanford University

March 25, 2008

MMP Imaging and its Clinical Relevance

Jianghong Rao, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Stanford University

April 1, 2008

Lymphomas: What Can Nuclear Medicine Do For You?

Andrei Iagaru, MD
Clinical Instructor of Radiology
Stanford University

April 8, 2008

Validation of Image Analysis Methods: Consulting the Gurus?

Michael Goris, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Stanford University

April 15, 2008

Radiographic Manifestation of Bone Disease with Nuclear Medicine Correlates

Lawrence McNutt, MD
Nuclear Medicine PET/CT Fellow
Stanford University

April 22, 2008

Title TBA

Frederick Chin, PhD
Head, Cyclotron Radiochemistry
Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford

April 29, 2008

Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder and PET

Hedieh Eslamy, MD
Nuclear Medicine PET/CT Fellow
Stanford University

May 6, 2008 Radiographic Manifestation of Bone Disease with Nuclear Medicine Correlates
Lawrence McNutt, MD
Nuclear Medicine PET/CT Fellow
Stanford University
May 13, 2008 TBA
Erik Mittra, MD, PhD
Nuclear Medicine Resident
Stanford University
May 20, 2008 TBA
May 27, 2008 rhTSH in Thyroid Remnant Ablation: Where are we in 2008?
R. Michael Tuttle, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Sanford Weill Medical College of Cornell University