2021 Research Day Agenda

November 23, 2021

See past Research Days: 2020 | 2019

Program

Welcome and Remarks from Dr. Karen Horton

Radiology Awards Session (Chairs: Drs. Bulte, Demehri and Nimmagadda)

• Dr. Vivek Yedavalli (Physician Scientist Incubator Program)
• Dr. Emily Ambinder
• Dr. Ethel Ngen

Research Fellows & Students Prize Abstract Presentation Session (Chair: Dr. Edden)

• Dr. Bahram Mohajer
• Dr. Akhilesh Mishra
• Dr. Shreyas Kuddannaya

Residents Prize Presentation Session (Chair: Dr. Solnes)

• Dr. Betsy Hu
• Dr. Andrew Kolarich
• Dr. Mohammad Sadaghiani

Latest advances in Service Centers  (Chair: Dr. Krimins)

• Dr. Kristine Glunde – ‘TIMS/ToF MALDI Imaging in the JHMI AIMS Core’
• Dr. Jeff Bulte – ‘MPI Scanner is operational’
• Dr. Zaver Bhujwalla –  ‘Bargain basement prices for Optical-CT imaging and Endoscopy imaging’

New Assistant Professor Session (Chairs: Drs. Sgouros and Glunde)

• Dr. Tahir Yusufaly
• Dr. Harrison Bai
• Dr. Aline Thomas
• Dr. Alin Shakeri-Zadeh

New Associate Professor Session Session (Chair: Dr. Barker)

• Dr. Manisha Aggarwal
• Dr. Jiadi Xu
• Dr. Hye-Young Heo

New Professor Session (Chairs: Drs. Fayad and Lu)

• Dr. Jenny Hoang
• Dr. Michael McMahon
• Dr. Sridhar Nimmagadda

2020 Research Day

Program

COVID Session (Chair, Dr. Hanzhang Lu)

• Dr. Tony Lin – ‘Detection of COVID-19 Pneumonia on Chest Radiographs’
• Dr. Bharat Ambale Venkatesh - ‘Can Chest X-rays Predict Mortality in Hospitalized COVID-19 patients?’
• Dr. Caitlin Tressler – ‘Pulmonary Immune Response in COVID-19 Infection’

Research Fellows & Students Prize Abstract Presentation Session (Chair, Dr. Peter Barker)

• Selected Abstract #1 - Dr. Farhad Pishgar – ‘Quantitative Analysis of Adipose Depots Using Chest CT and Associations with All-cause Mortality in COPD: Longitudinal Analysis from MESArthritis Ancillary Study’
• Selected Abstract #2 – Dr. Shaowei Bo - ‘Developing Azoles for Performing Functional MRI of Kidneys’
• Selected Abstract #3 – Dr. Raj Kumar Sharma – ‘Metabolic Reprogramming by SLC1A5 Downregulation in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells’

Residents Prize Presentation Session (Chair, Dr. Lilja Solnes)

• Dr. Anirudh Arun – ‘Cerebral Venous Congestion: A Novel Framework’
• Dr. Sean Golden – ‘The Growth of Clinical IR: Increasing Interventional Radiology Evaluation & Management Charges Over Time’
• Dr. Shinjini Kundu – ‘Beyond What The Eye Can See: Re-imagining Precision Medicine?’

Latest advances in Service Centers (Chair, Dr. Jeff Bulte)

• Dr. Kristine Glunde – ‘Advanced MALDI Imaging in the JHMI AIMS Core’
• Dr. Rebecca Krimins – ‘The Express Radiology Research Lab and Radiosynoviorthesis in Dogs’
• Dr. Zaver Bhujwalla – ‘iThera MSOT InVision 512 Optoacoustic Scanner’

Molecular Imaging (Chair, Dr. Kristine Glunde)

• Dr. Marie France Penet – ‘Photoimmunotherapy of Ovarian Cancer’
• Dr. Sudath Hapuarachchige – ‘5D3-DM1: A Novel PSMA-targeted ADC for Prostate Cancer Therapy’
• Dr. Catherine Foss – ‘Imaging Inflammation in Small Animals’
• Dr. Laurence Carroll – ‘Caspase-based PET for Evaluating Pro-Apoptotic Treatments in Tuberculosis’

New approaches to Common Clinical Problems (Chair, Dr. Laura Fayad) – Prerecorded Session

• Dr. Steven Rowe: ‘Impacting the Treatment of Men with Prostate Cancer Through the Use of PSMA-Based Molecular Imaging’
• Dr. Atif Zaheer: ‘Making Heads and Tails of the Pancreas: Fruits of Multidisciplinary Collaboration’
• Dr. Emily Ambinder: ‘Improving Access to Breast Imaging’
• Dr. Robert Lidell: ‘Pancreatic Cancer: The Backdoor Approach’
• Dr. Vivek Yedavalli: ‘Stroke and Stroke Perfusion Research’
• Dr. Omid Khalilzadeh: ‘High Resolution CT Evaluation of Bone Histomorphometry in Patients with Metabolic Bone Disease’

MR Research (Chair, Dr. George Sgouros)

• Dr. Michael Schar – ‘MR Techniques for Coronary Endothelial Function Assessment’
• Dr. Shanshan Jiang – ‘Deep Learning Boosted Amide Proton Transfer (APT) MRI’
• Dr. Hye Young Heo – ‘Proton Exchange MR Fingerprinting’
• Dr. Georg Oeltzschner – ‘Advanced Acquisition and Modeling Techniques in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy’

2019 Research Day

The third annual Radiology Research Day was a tremendous success.

Department Chair, Dr. Karen Horton, began with an introduction that highlighted spectacular new equipment being updated and installed primarily for research purposes.

The first distinguished faculty lecture was by Dr. Katarzyna Macura who gave an eye-opening talk on a vast amount of multi-disciplinary research and clinical work focused on prostate cancer.

Dr. Katarzyna Macura 

The keynote lecture from Dr. Daniel Ford was an excellent discussion of translational research that covered challenges in medicine and the need to build efficient infrastructure to best support faculty efforts.

Over lunch, the Turner Concourse was bursting with activity as poster presentations and judging took over the atmosphere.

In the Darner Conference Room, Core Service Centers displayed services available to all faculty both within and outside of the School of Medicine, in order to provide support for conducting cutting-edge research. The post-lunch series started with Dr. Shadpour Demehri and focused on his specialty in osteoarthritis imaging.

Ishu Sivakumar

Dr. Stefan Zimmerman discussed minimally-invasive cardiac CT and MRI imaging to diagnose subtle signs of abnormal function. Dr. Ferdinand Hui offered tremendous insight into strokes, the leading cause of adult disability and 5th leading cause of death.

The last distinguished faculty lecture was by Dr. Paul Bottomley who discussed the history and progress of measuring cardiac work and his own involvement which dated back to 1977 when he helped build the first MRI as a young PhD student in Nottingham. Dr. Karen Horton concluded the day with handing out awards for the 6 poster winners.

Dr. Paul Bottomley (r)

With every conclusion a new research question can be asked and a new step into progressing medicine may occur. Being a leader in treating patients means leading in medical research.

The 2019 Radiology Research Day has revealed many conclusions and just as many newly surfaced questions, exactly what is needed to push medicine to the next frontier.