ISMRM-ASNR CO-SPONSORED WORKSHOP ~  27-30 September 2012

Advanced Brain Imaging: "Beyond State-of-the-Art"
McLean, VA USA

 

PROGRAM


  Day 1 - Thursday, 27 September 2012  
15:00 Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
  18:15 Opening Reception  
     

  Day 2 - Friday, 28 September 2012  
07:30 Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
  Session 1: Introduction Session: "To Set the Stage"  
13:00 Setting the Stage

Walter Kucharczyk, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

13:05 The Big Problems & How MR Can Help

David B. Hackney, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  
Boston, MA, USA

13:20 Little Brains Big Changes – MR Lessons from Ontogeny

Patricia Ellen Grant, M.D.
Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA, USA

13:40 Challenges in Imaging Brain & Mind Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital 
Charlestown, MA, USA
     
  Session 2: Controversial Topics  
14:00 Tomorrows Fantasy Techniques

Timothy P. Roberts, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

14:20 Machine Learning & New Analytic Approaches Ragini Verma, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
     
  Session 3: Cognitive Function  
15:00 Functional Connectivity of Cortical Networks Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
15:30 Parsing the Structure of the Brain – New Insights from Diffusion MRI Van Jay Wedeen, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
16:00 Concussive Brain Injuries in Contact Sports, Including: Assessment Of the Athlete, Role of Imaging in Rehabilitation, Cognitive Decline With Repeat Concussions & Need for Prognostication Charles H. Tator, M.D., Ph.D.
Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto, ON, Canada
16:30 MR Imaging of Structural & Functional Connectivity in Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury
Pratik Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
17:00 Break  
     
  Session 4: Cognitive Function: Breakout Session
(All breakouts run parallel with each other)
(No CME Available)
 
17:30 Functional Connectivity Breakout Session Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
  Structural Connectivity Breakout Session Van Jay Wedeen, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
  Concussive Brain Injuries Breakout Session Charles H. Tator, M.D., Ph.D.
Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto, ON, Canada
18:30 Summary of Functional Connectivity  
18:40 Summary of Structural Connectivity  
18:50 Summary of Concussive Brain Injuries  
19:00 Discussion  
19:30 Dinner  
     

  Day 3 – Saturday, 29 September 2012  
07:00 Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
07:00 Breakfast & Poster Viewing  
     
  Session 5: Stroke  
09:00 Clinical Trials – Land of the Lost Steven Warach, M.D., Ph.D.
Seton/UT Southwestern Clinical Research Institute
Austin, TX, USA
09:30 Opening the Window: Na MRI in Stroke Fernando E. Boada, Ph.D.
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY, USA
10:00 I-Know the Future of Stoke Imaging Leif Østergaard, M.D., Ph.D.
Århus University Hospital
Århus, Denmark
10:30 Break  
     
  Session 6: Stroke: Breakout Session
(All breakouts run parallel with each other)
(No CME Available)
 
11:00 MR vs. CT Perfusion Breakout Session Max Wintermark, M.D.
University of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, VA, USA
  Sodium MRI Breakout Session Fernando E. Boada, Ph.D.
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY, USA
  Advanced Stroke Imaging: From Discovery to Clinical Trial Utility Breakout Session Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D.
NIH/NINDS
Bethesda, MD, USA
12:00 Summary of MR vs. CT Perfusion
12:10 Summary of Sodium MRI
12:20 Summary of Advanced Stroke Imaging: From Discover to Clinical Trial Utility
12:30 Discussion  
13:00 Lunch & Poster Viewing  
     
  Session 7: Controversial Topics  
15:00 New Bones for Old Dogs Michael E. Moseley, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
15:20 Unexplored Potential Breakthroughs R. Todd Constable, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
15:40 Emerging Methods for Characterization of Neurovascular Disease Peter Jezzard, Ph.D.
University of Oxford, FMRIB Center
Oxford, England, UK
16:00 Advances in ASL Eric C. Wong, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
17:00 Poster Viewing  
18:30 Dinner  
     

  Day 4, Sunday 30 September 2012  
     
06:45 Registration & Speaker upload available  
06:45 Breakfast & Poster Viewing  
     
  Session 8: Brain Tumors  
08:00 Advanced Clinical Imaging of Glioma James M. Provenzale, M.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
08:30 MRI & MRS of Glioma: Diagnosis & Treatment Sarah J. Nelson, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
09:00 Current Challenges in Glioma Diagnosis & Treatment Stuart A. Grossman, M.D.
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
09:30 Break & Speaker Upload Available  
     
  Session 9: Brain Tumors: Breakout Session
(All breakouts run parallel with each other)
(No CME Available)
 
10:00 Resting State in Pre-Operative Planning Breakout Session Joseph A. Maldjian, M.D.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
  Role & Methods of MRS Breakout Session Sarah J. Nelson, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
  Advanced Diffusion Analysis Breakout Session Peter J. Basser, Ph.D., A.B., S.M.
NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
  Applications of Vascular & Perfusion Imaging Breakout Session James M. Provenzale, M.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
11:00 Summary of Resting State in Pre-Operative Planning
11:10 Summary of Role & Methods of MRS
11:20 Summary of Advanced Diffusion Analysis
11:30 Summary of Applications of Vascular & Perfusion Imaging
11:40 Discussion  
12:00 Adjournment & Boxed Lunch  
     

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