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Friday, September 30, 2022


1:00 pm - 2:15 pm

LOCATION: HSEB 1700

OPENING REMARKS: CHUN YUAN, PhD

 

WELCOME REMARKS: SATOSHI MINOSHIMA, MD, PhD

 

OPENING ADDRESS: RACHEL HESS, MD, MS

MODERATOR: MARYAM SOLTANOLKOTABI, MD

Rachel Hess

As the AVP for research at U of U Health, Hess will oversee the Senior Vice President for Health Science Research Unit, which includes health sciences cores, graduate and research fellow programs, and health sciences initiatives. Additional responsibilities include overseeing the research enterprise across U of U Health. Hess is a professor in the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Internal Medicine at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. She holds a H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair in Population Health Sciences. She co-directs the Utah Clinical & Translational Science Institute. Prior to assuming the AVP role, she served as the associate dean for clinical and translational science and founding chief in the Division of Health System Innovation and Research.

 

KEYNOTE: MITCHELL D. SCHNALL, MD, PhD

The role of research in the path toward precision breast cancer screening

MODERATOR: DOUG ROGERS, MD

M Schnall

Dr. Schnall is the Eugene P Pendergrass Professor of Radiology and the Chair of the Radiology Department at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree, medical degree, and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty of the radiology department at the University of Pennsylvania since 1991 and full professor since 2002. Dr. Schnall is an international leader in translational biomedical imaging research. Through his career he has worked across the interface between basic imaging science and clinical medicine. His work has led to fundamental changes in the imaging approaches to breast and prostate cancer. In addition, he has had a significant influence on emerging technologies such as optical imaging. Dr. Schnall has played a critical role in efforts to organize cancer clinical and translational imaging research in the US. He has been the principal investigator of numerous team science initiatives. He served ACRIN Deputy Chair from 1999-2007. In 2008 he assumed the role of ACRIN Chair.

2:15 - 3:30

LOCATION: HSEB 1700

PRE-CLINICAL IMAGING SESSION

MODERATOR: DONNA CROSS, PhD

2:15 - 2:30

SHREYA GOEL, PhD: Molecular and Functional Imaging in Translational Research
Departments of Molecular Pharmaceutics, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering

2:30 - 2:45 JAN KUBANEK, PhD: Causal Mapping of Brain Function
Department of Biomedical Engineering
2:45 - 3:00 ANUJA SHARMA, PhD: Novel Dynamic MR Imaging Approaches to Diagnose and Characterize Tremor Affecting Speech Structures
VAST Research Lab, Department of Otolaryngology
3:00 - 3:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Shreya Goel, PhD
  • Jan Kubanek, PhD
  • Anuja Sharma, PhD
  • Edward Hsu, PhD
  • Sixiang Shi, PhD

3:30 - 3:45

LOCATION: Alumni Hall

Coffee break

3:45 - 4:45

LOCATION: Alumni Hall

“RESEARCH NEWS from the FUTURE”

MODERATOR: CHUN YUAN, PhD

1. Revealing Cerebral Vasculature Using 3D Multi-contrast MRI
Xiaodong Ma, PhD
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences

2. MRI-Guided Personalized Medicine Targeting Treatment Resistance Boosts Remission Rates in Patients with Major Depression
Vincent Koppelmans, PhD
Department of Psychiatry

3. Novel MR Imaging Markers of Innate Immune Activation Help Explain Progression in Secondary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
Seong-Eun Kim, PhD
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences

4. Engineered Antibody Fragment Surges as a Rising Star for Cancer Theranostics
Sixiang Shi, PhD
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences

5. MRE-measured cerebral blood vessel damage reveals brain deformations experienced during traumatic brain injury
Ken Monson, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering

6. Automated Vessel Wall Screening Predicts Cardiovascular Risk
Kazem Hashemizadeh, PhD
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences

4:45 - 5:45

LOCATION: Alumni Hall

“CLINICAL NEWS from the FUTURE”

MODERATORS: DOUG ROGERS, MD AND MARYAM SOLTANOLKOTABI, MD

1. Elite athletes using ultrasound imaging to prevent tendon injuries
Dan Cushman, MD
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehab

2. Metabolic Imaging of the Heart and Kidneys Give Clinicians New Tools in Managing in Chronic Kidney Disease
Monique Cho, MD
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

3. Personalized Modelling Guided Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmias
Ravi Ranjan, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

4. High-Resolution Carotid MRI Identifies Early Vascular Injury after Radiotherapy
Sinead Culleton, MBBCh BAO
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences

5. Demystifying epileptogenesis: White matter microstructural abnormalities in neonates with seizures predict development of future epilepsy
Amanda Sandoval Karamian, MD
Department of Pediatric Neurology

5:45 - 6:00

Take car to Opening Reception

Free parking in the College of Law parking lot and overflow in the Rice-Eccles Stadium lot with underground walkway to the College of Law building

Law School Parking Map

6:00 – 8:00

OPENING RECEPTION

S.J Quinney College of Law, Level 6 Terrace

 

Saturday, October 1, 2022

8:00 am - 8:15

LOCATION: Alumni Hall

BREAKFAST

8:15 - 8:40

LOCATION: HSEB 1700

EDUCATIONAL PLENARY TALK: GRACE G. ZHU, MD: Creation of RadDiscord: Transforming Radiology Education

MODERATOR: CHUN YUAN, PhD

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Grace G. Zhu, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Abdominal Imaging Section of the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the University of Utah. She is the creator of #RadDiscord, a 2019 ACR-AUR Research Scholar Program Scholar, and the recipient of a 2018 Certificate of Merit Award from the Radiological Society of North America.

8:40 - 9:30

LOCATION: HSEB 1700

SCIENTIFIC PLENARY TALK: TIM LEINER, MD, PhD

MODERATOR: CHUN YUAN, PhD

Tim Leiner

Prof. Tim Leiner is a cardiovascular radiologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and a Professor of Radiology at Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. He received his M.D. in 2000 from Maastricht University Medical School. In 2002 he obtained his Ph.D. from the same University. Following his Ph.D. he spent 18 months as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Cardiac MR Center at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School in Boston under Dr. Warren Manning. His research interests center around the development and implementation of new cardiovascular MR and CT techniques. Dr. Leiner has served as faculty member and member of the organizing committees at the annual meetings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB), Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), European Society for Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and at annual meetings of the Dutch Radiological Society. He is the author of over 375 original papers, review articles and book chapters as well as editor of several electronic radiology textbooks. He is the immediate past president of the ISMRM.

9:30 - 11:00

LOCATION: HSEB 1700

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SESSION

MODERATORS: ED DIBELLA, PhD AND RONG-RONG CHEN, PhD

9:30 - 9:45 SARANG JOSHI, DSc: Modeling the Shape of the Brain Connectome with Deep Neural Networks
Department of Bioengineering and SCI Institute
9:45 - 10:00 TOLGA TASDIZEN, PhD: Interpretable Deep Chest X-Ray Analysis
Department of Engineering and SCI Institute
10:00 - 10:15 SHANDIAN ZHE, PhD: A Short Note on Physics Informed Machine Learning
School of Computing
10:15 - 11:00

PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Sarang Joshi, DSc
  • Tolga Tasdizen, PhD
  • Shandian Zhe, PhD
  • Kazem Hashemizade, PhD
  • Tim Leiner, MD, PhD

11:00 - 12:30

 

 

12:45 - 1:30

LOCATION: HSEB 2600

TRAINEE CASE COMPETITION

 

ACADEMIC / INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

11:00 - 1:30

LOCATION: Alumni Hall

LUNCH AND EXHIBIT HALL, FEATURING:

  • Poster session for power pitches from day 1
  • Hands-on exhibit tables from researchers
  • Hands-on exhibit tables from clinical educators
  • Exhibit tables from industry partners
  • "Stump the Experts" Trivia Game
  • Trainee poster competition

1:30

LOCATION: Alumni Hall

AWARDS

 

2022 Planning Committee