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2008 Annual Meeting

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Opportunities in Imaging for Radiation Oncology

Track : PAN

Program Code: PAN02

Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008

Time: 4:15 PM to 5:45 PM EST

Duration: 3470 Minutes

Location: 210

SPEAKER(S):

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Robert Atcher, Team Leader, Los Alamos National Lab

James Balter, Professor, University of Michigan

N. Reed Dunnick, Chair, University of Michigan

After completing a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Stanford University, Dr. Dunnick moved to the NIH as a staff radiologist, where he developed an interest in genitourinary tract radiology. He spent 11 years on the faculty at Duke University before moving to Ann Arbor in 1992 to become Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Dunnick has written 288 scientific papers, 62 book chapters, and 9 books on various aspects of radiology, especially diagnostic oncology, uroradiology, and more recently, administration. He has served as Visiting Professor to 75 medical centers, as a guest faculty for over 382 continuing medical education courses, and delivered 20 named lectures. He has served on the editorial boards of 13 peer review journals. Throughout his career, Dr. Dunnick has been an active participant in professional radiology organizations. He has served as President of his two subspecialty societies, the Society of Uroradiology and the Society of Computed Body Tomography/Magnetic Resonance. He is a past President of the American Roentgen Ray Society and the Michigan Radiological Society, and is a Trustee and President-Elect of the American Board of Radiology. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Radiological Society of North America as the Liaison for Science. He has served the American College of Radiology in a variety of capacities, including Chair of the Professional Self Evaluation Committee, Chair of the Intersociety Conference, Chair of the Commission on Body Imaging and as a member of the Board of Chancellors. A long time member of the Association of University Radiologists, Dr. Dunnick has served as Chair of the Publications, the Staufer Award, and Membership Committees, Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and President. He served on the Executive Committee of the Society of Chairmen of Academic Radiology Departments (SCARD) for seven years and was President in 1999/00. A strong advocate for research, Dr. Dunnick is the Immediate Past President of the Academy for Radiology Research. He had the privilege of testifying before Congress on the need to establish a new institute, which was signed into law as the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering by President Clinton on December 29, 2000.

Bruce Haffty, M.D, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Anwar Padhani, Consultant Radiologist and Head of Imaging Research, Mount Vernon Hospital

Dr Padhani is involved in the development of innovative research programs investigating the use of functional imaging on the microenvironment of human tumours, and has performed numerous clinical research studies evaluating tumour perfusion, permeability, oxygenation and water diffusion imaging of breast, brain, rectal and prostate cancers as well as studies of antiangiogenic and antivascular treatments. This work which involves CT scanning, MRI and PET-CT is of international renown. He is a co-applicant in a number of successful grant proposals in support of this research. He is actively involved in planning validation work at the Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood, UK. He has helped establish MRI perfusion as a biomarker marker of tumour response to angiolytic/antiangiogenic therapies (a new generation of anticancer drugs that target tumour microvessels); In this regard, he has advised the National Cancer Institute of the USA and Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) antiangiogenesis clinical trials imaging methodology; this work has attracted clinical research organisation and pharmaceutical interest. He is also expert in oncological imaging looking after patients on a weekly basis and is also a specialist in a number of emerging clinical MRI applications including dynamic MRI, diffusion weighted MRI and MR lymphography (in which he has been involved in 2 registration trials). Dr. Padhani has a passion for teaching and has published chapters in 24 textbooks, 43 journal reviews, and published over 67 full scientific articles in peer reviewed journals. He has edited the book �Advances in Oncologic Imaging Techniques� (Taylor & Francis, New York) published last year. He is currently writing the book �Angiogenesis MRI in clinical trials � practical approaches� (John Wiley and Sons Ltd). Dr Padhani has given over 95 invited lectures at national and international meetings including plenary talks on functional MRI, angiogenesis and hypoxia imaging. He has also edited the �Guidelines for cross-sectional imaging in cancer management� (Royal College of Radiologist, UK). He is the chairman of the Molecular Imaging Committee of the British Institute of Radiology, a member of the Research Sub-committee and Publications Working Party (Cancer) of the Royal College of Radiologist, UK and a member of the molecular and contrast media committee of the European Congress of Radiology. He is a member of the Study Advisory Group steering the National Multi-Centre Study of MRI Screening in women at High Genetic Risk of breast cancer (MARIBS) and of the Clinical Trials Research Committee (CTRC) of Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

LEARNER OUTCOMES:

Appreciate ways to better utilize existing imaging technology for radiation oncology.
Develop approaches that can improve the mentoring process in their own institutions.
Participate in an active discussion/debate over the need for changes in education and training of physicians, physicists and related scientists to advance imaging in radiation oncology.