Seminars & Events
The Image Guided Cancer Therapy Research Program has several types of events:
Workshop: Interactive sessions targeted to engage attendees in discussions and activities designed to advance the program's mission.
Seminar: Sessions designed to discuss scientific advancements in Image Guided Cancer Therapy.
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Image Guided Cancer Therapy Seminars and Workshops
2021 Seminar Series
| *Please email igctr@mdanderson.org for meeting link or to be added to our seminar distribution list. All seminar times are listed in Central Standard Time (CST) |
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| Date & Location *all events will be held at MD Anderson unless otherwise noted |
Event Title | Speaker(s) |
| 30 Jun 2021 Zoom* 4:00-5:00pm |
Guest Seminar: "Can Focused Ultrasound Change the Pain Game?" | Julie Pilitsis, MD, PhD Chair, Dept. of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics Professor of Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, and Experimental Therapeutics Albany Medical College |
| 12 May 2021 Zoom* 9:00-10:00am |
Seminar: "Advanced 3D Imaging and Correlative Pathology with Xerra CFT." | Amer N. Najjar, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, MDACC Richard R. Bouchard, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC Kristy K. Brock, PhD Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics and Executive Director, IGCT, MDACC |
| 26 APR 2021 Zoom* 12:00-1:00pm |
Seminar: "First-in-Human Hyperpolarized-MRI for Thyroid Cancer" | Stephen Y. Lai, MD, PhD, FACS Professor, Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery, MDACC James A. Bankson, PhD Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC |
| 24 MAR 2021 Zoom* 12:00-1:00pm |
Guest Seminar: "Expanding the Imaging Toolbox with Radiometal PET Imaging Agents" | Suzanne Lapi, PhD Professor, Depts. of Radiology and Chemistry and Vice Chair of Translational Research, Dept. of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 12 MAR 2021 Zoom* 8:00-9:00am |
Guest Seminar: Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Biomedical Sciences "Virtual and Augmented Reality for Image-Guided Procedures - Beyond the Hype" and "Human Vision Modification Using Augmented Reality" |
Colin McCarthy, MD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC Erez Lieberman Aiden, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine |
| 23 FEB 2021 Zoom* 10:00am-11:00am |
Guest Seminar: Advances in Theranostics - Nanoparticle Applications in Cancer Therapy "Nanoparticle Drug Delivery in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology" and "Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Image-Guided Photothermotherapy" |
Rachael Siriani, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, UTHealth McGovern School of Medicine Chun Li, PhD Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MDACC |
| 11 FEB 2021 Zoom* 10:00am-11:00am |
Seminar: The Stereotactic RadPath Trial: Clinical Aspects and Analytics | Dawid Schellingerhout, MD Professor, Dept. of Neuroradiology, MDACC David Fuentes, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC |
2020 Seminar Series
| *Please email igctr@mdanderson.org for meeting link or to be added to our seminar distribution list. All seminar times are listed in Central Standard Time (CST) |
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| Date & Location *all events will be held at MD Anderson unless otherwise noted |
Event Title | Speaker(s) |
| 10 DEC 2020 Zoom* 7:00-8:00am |
Seminar: Leveraging our Legendary Clinical Volume: The MDACC Diagnostic Medicine Team Science Initiative | Greg Fuller, MD, PhD Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Chief, Section of Neuropathology, MDACC |
| 18 NOV 2020 Zoom* 5:00-6:00pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Optimum Clinical In Vivo Imaging with InVivage by OptiScan | Darren Lurie CEO, OptiScan (Australia) Lindsay Bussau, PhD Application Specialist, OptiScan (Australia) Camile Farah, MDSc, PhD Professor, Australian Centre for Oral Oncology Research and Education (Australia) |
| 12 NOV 2020 Webex* 3:00-4:00pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Integrating Radiotherapy with Targeted Agents - Mechanistic Models to learn from Patient Data | Clemens Grassberger, PhD Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Radiation-Drug Treatment Design Lab |
| 15 OCT 2020 Webex* 2:00-3:00pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Semi-Supervised StyleGAN for Disentanglement Learning | Weili Nie, BS PhD Candidate, Dept. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine & Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University |
| 30 SEP 2020 Webex* 11:00-12:00pm |
Seminar: Point of Care Molecular Cancer Imaging | Kontantin Sokolov, PhD Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC Richard Bouchard, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDCC |
| 26 Aug 2020 Zoom* 3:00-4:00pm |
Seminar: Expanding the Role of Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery | Guillaume Cazoulat, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDCC Ravi Rajaram, MD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, MDACC |
| 31 JUL 2020 Webex* 2:00-3:00pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Calculation to Clinic: Applications of Deep Learning Within Clinical Oncology | Sanjay Aneja, MD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine |
| 03 JUN 2020 Webex* 3:00-4:00pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Optimization of the Treatment Quality in Head & Neck Radiation Oncology | Nicholas J. Lowther, PhD University of Canterbury and Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Wellington Blood & Cancer Centre (New Zealand) |
| 19 MAY 2020 Webex* 11:00-12:00pm |
Seminar: Advances in Image Guided Liver Cancer | Eugene Koay, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC A. Kyle Jones, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC Bruno Odisio, MD Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC |
| 10 APR 2020 Webex* 2:00-3:00pm |
Seminar: Advances in Image Guided Cervical Treatment | Ann Klopp, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC Aradhana Venkatesan, MD Professor, Dept. of Abdominal Imaging, MDACC |
| 02 MAR 2020 FCT3.5001 2:00-3:00pm |
Seminar: Imaging Innovation for Head & Neck Cancer Evaluation & Elimination of Toxicity | C. David Fuller, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC Stephen Lai, MD, PhD Professor, Dept. of Head & Neck Surgery, MDACC Kate Hutcheson, PhD Professor, Dept. of Head & Neck Surgery, MDACC |
| 19 FEB 2020 FCT2.4142 (B) 4:00-5:30pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Deep Learning for Segmentation, Registration & Image Reconstruction |
Jonas Teuwen, PhD Assistant Professor, Netherlands Cancer Institute (Netherlands) |
| 17 FEB 2020 FCT3 Rooms 2 & 7 3:30-4:30pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: AI for Breast Imaging: Better, Faster, Less! | Ioannis Sechopoulos, PhD Professor, Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands) |
| 27 JAN 2020 FCT3.5012 (Lab B) 1:00-2:30pm |
Seminar: Radiofrequency & Microwave Ablation |
Erik Cressman, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC |
IGCT Workshops
| *Please email igctr@mdanderson.org for workshop link or to be added to our seminar distribution list. All workshops are listed in Central Standard Time (CST) |
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| Date & Location *all events will be held at MD Anderson unless otherwise noted |
Event Title | Speaker(s) |
| 28 MAY 2021 Zoom* 12:00-2:00pm |
Workshop: Bridging In Vivo Imaging and Histopathology with the Emit Xerra System: Applications in Biomedical Sciences | Kristy K. Brock, PhD Professor, Dept. Imaging Physics Mat Brevard Co-Founder and CEO, EMIT Imaging Charles V. Kingsley DI Operations Manager, MDACC Natalie W. Fowlkes, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. Veterinary Medicine & Surgery, MDACC Mark D. Pagel, PhD Professor, Dept. Cancer Systems Imaging, MDACC Rony Avritscher, MD Associate Professor, Dept. Interventional Radiology, MDACC |
| 06 JAN 2021 Zoom* 11:00am-1:30pm |
Workshop: An Overview and Workshop on Docker | William (Joe) Allen, PhD Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), UT Austin Pingjun Chen, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Wu Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC |
| 29 JAN 2020 FCT3.5012 (Lab B) 1:00-3:00pm |
Workshop: How to Get Started in AI | Carlos Cardenas, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiation Physics - Research, MDACC Brian Anderson, BS Graduate Research Assistant, Morfeus Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC |
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