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Presented by the
Los Angeles Radiological Society
And the
Pacific Southwest Chapter, Society of Nuclear Medicine
March 27, 2010
8:00am - 5:30pm
Preregistration is no longer available for this program.
Onsite registration begins at 7:30am, Saturday morning.
Hilton Pasadena Hotel
168 S. Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101
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VOICE Credits = 7.
Nuclear Medicine is Molecular Imaging!
Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FACNM, FACNP
President, LARS Nuclear Medicine Section
Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Director of Radiology Research
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
The Mission of the Los Angeles Radiological Society has always been to bring imaging experts and important imaging topics to the imaging specialists of Southern California, keeping them at the forefront of imaging knowledge. In keeping with this tradition, the Nuclear Medicine Section of LARS is pleased to offer this one-day concise, comprehensive program that includes topics on recent advancements in radioimmunotherapy, multi-modality imaging, new frontiers in molecular imaging, and topics on reimbursement and radiation exposure in imaging -- providing not only education, but also aiding the attendee to meet requirements toward Maintenance of Certification (MOC).
Molecular imaging is emerging as an important research tool in the way that we study cellular and molecular events in vivo, and it is expected to lead radiology into the forefront of molecular and clinical medicine. Molecular imaging is the product of concurrent advances in molecular and cellular biology, chemistry, computing, and imaging science. It will pave the way in the evolution from the current, nonspecific imaging methods toward patient-specific imaging evaluation based on morphologic, physiologic, molecular, and genetic markers of disease. Nuclear medicine has taken a leading role in this exciting endeavor since it inherently has had and will continue to have its foundation on molecular medicine.
Nuclear medicine may have faced some challenges in the past but now is one of the most exciting and growing branches of medical imaging. We are now witnessing unprecedented growth and dissemination of combined SPECT-CT, PET-CT, and PET-MRI imaging systems; development of new biologically-based radiotracers for imaging and radiopharmaceuticals for radioimmunotherapy, recent changes and improvements in post-graduate training duration and content, and growing interest among young physicians and physician-scientists in pursuing careers in nuclear medicine.
Conference Chairman
Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FACNM, FACNP
Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Director of Radiology Research
Visiting Associate in Bioengineering (Caltech)
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Patrick M. Colletti, MD
Professor of Radiology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Peter S. Conti, MD, PhD, FACR
Professor of Radiology, Pharmacy and Biomedical
Engineering
Director, Pet Imaging Science Center
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Johannes Czernin, MD
Director, Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT
Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Dominique Delbeke, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology
director of Nuclear Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Cameron Foster, MD
Assistant Professor
UC Davis School of Medicine
Sherief H. Gamie, MD, PhD
Director Nuclear Medicine - RadioImmunotherapy
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Hi Desert Pet Imagery
Edwin C. Glass, MD
Section Chief, Nuclear Medicine
Veterans Administration Hospital, Greater LA Healthcare System
Adjunct Member John Wayne Cancer Institute
St. John's Hospital and Health Center
Brenda J. King, CNMT, FSMTS
BJ King & Associates, LLC
Carson, CA
Jamshid Maddahi, MD, FACC
Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology (Nuclear Medicine)
and Medicine (Cardiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Biomedical Imaging Institute
Lalitha Ramanna, MD
Director of Nuclear Medicine
Little company of Mary Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Alan D. Waxman, MD
Co-Chair, Department of Imaging
Chief, Nuclear Medicine
S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Nuclear Medicine Update 2010 Program Learning Objectives
- To review the unique contribution and diagnostic utility of multi-modality imaging in cardiac, oncologic, infectious and endocrine disorders.
- To explore the frontiers of imaging in the era of molecular medicine by reviewing the potential role of imaging in stem cell research and the molecular biology determinants of FDG uptake in tumors.
- To examine important issues facing imaging practice including accreditation, reimbursement, and ways to limit radiation exposure.
- To review radioimmunotherapy for lymphoma and the role of imaging in radiation treatment planning and evaluation of treatment response in patients with cancer.