Agenda

Thomas M. Grist, MD, FACR, is currently the John H. Juhl Professor of Radiology, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Since 2005, Grist has served as Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. During his tenure as Chair, the Department has grown to include 85 faculty, 20 fellows, and 32 residents with an annual budget of $75 million. Together with colleagues in Medical Physics and Radiology, Dr. Grist established the Imaging Sciences Center in the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, (WIMR) a nearly 50,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art facility devoted to the development of imaging technologies and their translation to clinical practice. Dr. Grist has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. He has authored 3 books, 15 book chapters and more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. His research has resulted in 16 patents. He is an active member in many professional organizations including International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA), American Heart Association, and Society for Computed Body Tomography/MR. He has been honored as a Fellow of the American Heart Association, ISMRM, and American College of Radiology. Dr. Grist was recently elected to become the President of the ISMRM; a 6000 member interdisciplinary organization devoted to the development and application of magnetic resonance imaging in medicine. Dr. Grist is interested in the development and application of advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques for diagnosis and therapy of human disease, primarily for the evaluation of cardiovascular disorders. Specifically, the cardiovascular MR imaging group at the University of Wisconsin has focused efforts on the development of noninvasive techniques for diagnosing cardiac and vascular disease using MRI. All of these projects reflect an interdisciplinary approach to translational imaging research. The research truly goes from the bench to bedside, and relies heavily on multidisciplinary groups to achieve the goals.

“The development of photoredox labeling for PET agent construction”
Zibo Li, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiology
Director of Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Research Group
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Novel approaches for alpha-particle dosimetry in the animal model”
Firas Mourtada, PhD, Professor & Enterprise Clinical Director of Medical Physics
Thomas Jefferson University

“AI-assisted 4D-MRI: a peek into the future” 
Jing Cai, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Technology and Informatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

“Preliminary results of a prospective trial of feasibility and safety of using advanced intraoperative MRI (iMRI) for glioma surgery”
Randy Jensen, MD, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Utah

“Imaging biomarker development for non-invasive breast cancer therapy”
Allison Payne, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
University of Utah

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“Lessons from the Human Connectome Project that Inform Clinical Neuroradiology”

Matthew F. Glasser, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor as of July 1st, 2023, at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Glasser co-directs the advanced imaging service for the neuroradiology section. The advanced imaging service does presurgical functional MRI and tractography mapping.  He is also a member of the NIH’s Brain Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) as a part of a collaboration with the Allen Brain Institute.

Dr. Glasser is best known for his work mapping the 180 areas of each human cerebral cortical hemisphere using multiple MRI modalities as a part of the Human Connectome Project (HCP). This decade-long effort required a wholesale reimagining of many brain-imaging acquisition, analysis and data sharing methods, which now comprise the HCP’s approach to brain imaging. Glasser and David Van Essen, PhD, in the Department of Neuroscience, co-direct a brain imaging laboratory now a part of the Computational Imaging Research Center (CIRC). The HCP’s aging connectome project continues as the Adult Aging Brain Connectome (AABC) project that aims to uncover the brain, behavioral and environmental factors underlying vulnerability and resilience to developing late-life dementia. Dr. Glasser co-leads the AABC’s Informatics, Data Analysis, and Statistics Core (IDASC) with the CIRC’s Daniel Marcus, PhD. 

“Neuroimaging from Birth and Beyond: Using Quantitative MRI to Track Brain Development”
Doug Dean III, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Physics
University of Wisconsin - Madison

“Toward Healthy Aging in Autistic Adults: A Longitudinal Clinical and Multimodal Brain Imaging Study”
Molly Prigge, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
University of Utah

"Interpretable Graph Mining on Brain Network Data: Disease Predictions and Biomarker Discovery”
Haoteng Tang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

“An individualized approach for estimating brain network specialization in autism”
Jared Nielsen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Brigham Young University

“Towards Precision Medicine using Quantitative MRI of the Brain”
Andrew Alexander, PhD, Professor, Medical Physics and Psychiatry
Co-Core Director, Brain Imaging Core
Director of MRI Physics Research, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior
University of Wisconsin - Madison

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“Quantitative Cardiac MRI for Chest Pain” 
Michael Salerno, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Section Chief of Cardiac Imaging and Medical Director of Echocardiography
Stanford University

“Noncontrast cardiac MRI for fibrosis and oxygen assessment”
Jie Zheng, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology
Washington University in St. Louis 

”Cardiac MRI for Amyloidosis - Technical Perspectives”
Ganesh Adluru, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
University of Utah

“Imaging in Amyloidosis- Clinical Perspectives”
Spencer Carter, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology, University of Utah

"Challenges and Advances in Pediatric Cardiac MRI and CT"
Kelly Han, MD, Director of Cardiac Imaging
Professor, Pediatrics, Primary Children’s Medical Center
 

PANEL DISCUSSION