Nuclear Medicine In The Department of Radiology

Grand Rounds 2008 - 2009

Tuesdays, 8:00 am - 9:00 am (except July & August)
Location: Clark Center - Room S361. Open attendance.

Date Title/Speaker
Sept 2, 2008 Cancelled
Sept 9, 2008 AMI/SMI Week

Sept 16, 2008

What Molecular Imaging Must Do in Order to Stay Alive
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering
Director, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine
Stanford University

Sept 23, 2008

Investigating the Mechanisms of Treatment Response in Breast Cancer Using DCE-MRI and Gene Arrays
Nicholas Hughes, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Multimodality Molecular Imaigng Lab

Sept 30, 2008

Somatostatin Imaging of Neuroendocrine Tumors
Robert Carretta, MD, FACNP, FACNM
Vice President of Medical Affairs
Covidien Corporation

Oct 7, 2008

Muscle stem cells: isolation, self-renewal and dynamics of regeneration
Helen Blau, PhD
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Professor
Director, Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Stem Cell Institute
Stanford University

Oct 14, 2008

Guanine nucleotide depletion and nucleolar instability
Beverly Mitchell, MD
Deputy Director, Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center
George E. Becker Professor of Medicine
Stanford University

Oct 21, 2008

Incorporating Cardiac CTA into a Nuclear Medicine Practice

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

Oct 28, 2008

Biomimeticaly Engineered Nanomedical Systems--Fiction or Reality?

Demir Akin, DVM, PhD

Deputy Director, Stanford Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE-TR)
Stanford University

Nov 4, 2008

Progress Towards a Small Animal Conformal Radiotherapy System: Technology and Applications

Edward Graves, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford

Stanford University

Nov 11, 2008

The Future of the U.S. Healthcare System
Richard Levy, PhD
Chairman of the Board/Director
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.

Nov 18, 2008

Old Tracers, New Ideas: Clinical Research in Nuclear Medicine

Andrei Iagaru, MD
Clnical Instructor of Radiology

Stanford University

Nov 25, 2008

Translational PET/CT Research Projects at Stanford

Andrew Quon, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Stanford University

Dec 2, 2008 RSNA Annual Meeting Nov 30 - Dec 5

Dec 9, 2008

Imaging Synchrony

Elasi Botvinick, MD

Professor in Residence

Department of Radiology

University of California, San Francisco

Dec 16, 2008

Dedicated, High-Resolution PET/CT of the Breast and Wrist

Ramsey D. Badawi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

PET Physicist

Department of Radiology

University of California, Davis

Dec 23, 2008 Christmas Holiday
Dec 30, 2008 New Year's Holiday

Jan 6, 2009

Use of Neuroimaging for Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurodegeneration

Gary W. Small, MD

Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging

Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences

Director, UCLA Center on Aging

Director, Memory & Aging Research Center

Jane & Terry Semel institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior

University of California, Los Angeles

Jan 13, 2009

Update on Hyperpolarized 13C Metabolic Imaging

Daniel Spielman, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology (Diagnostic Radiology) and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

Stanford University

Jan 20, 2009

Image Registration

Michael Goris, MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology

Stanford University

Jan 27, 2009

Treatment of Aggressive Lymphomas Focusing on Antiangiogenesis

Kristen Ganjoo, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology)

Stanford University

Feb 3, 2009

Development of a 1 Millimeter Resolution Clinical PET System for Cancer Imaging

Craig Levin, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology

Stanford University

Feb 10, 2009

Flat Panel SPECT/CT and Improving SPECT Images

Horace Hines, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Philips Nuclear Medicine

Feb 17, 2009

Network Analysis of FDG PET as a Biomarker in Parkinson’s Disease: Application in Gene Therapy Clinical Trials

Kathleen L Poston, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Stanford University

Feb 24, 2009

PET Prediction

Michael Goris, MD, PhD

Professor of Radiology

Stanford University

March 3, 2009

Imaging Response to Cancer Therapy

Shawn Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Stanford University

March 10, 2009

NIS Therapeutics in Breast Cancer

Irene L. Wapnir, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Stanford University

March 17, 2009

Molecular probe development: imag'in'ing the future

Henry Van Brocklin, PhD

Professor of Radiology

Director of Radiopharmaceutical Research

University of California, San Francisco

March 24, 2009

Challenges in Diagnosis and Management of the Sarcoma Patient
Raffi S. Avedian, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University

March 31, 2009

Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Melanoma

Zhen Cheng, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Stanford University

April 7, 2009

Optimizing Acquisition Parameters For Better Mouse Images - exampels from MicroCT and fluorescence imaging

Tim Doyle, PhD

Sr Res Scientist-Basic Ls

Stanford University

April 14, 2009

Breast Cancer Treatment Guidelines: Implications For The Interface Between Clinician and Diagnostic Radiology

Robert W Carlson, MD

Professor of Medicine (Oncology and General Internal Medicine/Medical Informatics)

Stanford University

April 21, 2009

Nanoparticle Engineering For Cancer Imaging and Therapy

Jiang He, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

University of California, San Francisco

April 28, 2009

A Novel Strategy For Blood Biomarker Amplification and Localization Using Ultrasound

Aloma L. D'Souza, PhD

Rsearch Scientist - Glazer/Gambhir Lab

Department of Radiology, Stanford University

May 5, 2009

Cardiac PET - Novel 18-Fluorine Tracer Development

Arash Kardan, MD

Nuclear Medicine Resident

Stanford University

May 12, 2009

An Overview of Present and Future Considerations in Molybdenum-99 Production in the United States

Ali Mansouri, MD

Nuclear Medicine Resident

Stanford University

May 19, 2009

FDG PET/CT in Lymphoma: A Review of the Current Literature and Recommendations

Erik Mittra, MD

Nuclear Medicine Fellow

Stanford University

May 26, 2009

Silicon-based Building Blocks for a One-step 18F-labeling of biomolecules for PET Imaging

Aileen Hoehne, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow, Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab

Stanford University

June 2, 2009

Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer: Current Challenges and Future Solutions

Juergen Willmann, MD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Stanford University

June 9, 2009

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Radiopeptides

Meike Schipper, MD

Nuclear Medicine Resident

Stanford University

June 16, 2009

No Grand Rounds - Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting

June 23, 2009

Progress Toward In Vivo Imaging of Protease ActivityD

Jianghong Rao, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Stanford Univesity

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