Dr. Lerakis is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine. He is also a Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University. He is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Dr. Lerakis is the Director of Interventional Echo and Cardiac MRI at Emory University Hospital and Emory Clinic. He received his M.D. degree from the Medical School of Athens (Greece) in 1988. He continued on doing clinical research in Nuclear Cardiology atMount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Subsequently, he did his Internal Medicine training at the Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia from 1991 to 1994 and completed his Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Brown University from 1994 to 1995. He went on to complete his Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas from 1995 to 1998 and then did one year of Echocardiography Fellowship at Emory University from 1998 to 1999. After his Echocardiography Fellowship, he has stayed on as Faculty in the Division of Cardiology practicing clinical and non-invasive cardiology. He has received multiple teaching awards from the fellows.

Dr. Lerakis’ research interests are focused on non-invasive cardiology, different non-invasive modalities in the diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease, Endocarditis. He is extremely interested in the use of Echocardiography for guiding interventional procedures, device deployment and Transcatheter Valvular therapies for Structural and Valvular Heart Diseases. He is also interested in the study of Valvular Heart Disease by Echo and cardiac MRI and novel therapies for acute myocardial infarction patients.

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Dr. Douglas Coldwell is a Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. He earned his Ph.D in Materials Science from Rice University, Houston, TX (1972-1975). He completed his M.D in Medicine, from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX (1980-1983). Dr. Coldwell did his Residency in Diagnostic Radiology from Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center (1980-1983). Currently he is working as Director of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, University of Louisville. Dr. Coldwell is a physician who has pioneered numerous treatments for cancer including the use of radioactive particles delivered through the arteries to treat tumors that can be isolated from normal tissues. He was the first to use a probe that treats metastatic tumors in the spine by heating them and then reinforcing the bone with cement. He received many honors and awards. He has published 95 papers in renowned journals.

Dr. Douglas Coldwell research interest includes Radioembolization of tumors, mathematical evaluation of arteriograms, computer simulation, and device technology.

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Dr. Randall Higashida is a Professor of Radiology (clinical) and Biomedical Imaging, Neurological Surgery, Neurology, and Anesthesiology at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center. He is Chief of the Division of Interventional Neurovascular Radiology, one of the leading institutions specializing in the minimally invasive treatment of complex cerebrovascular diseases and stroke. Dr. Higashida earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California and did his residency and fellowship training at UCLA Medical Center, in Los Angeles, California. He is past President of the Society of Neuro Interventional Surgery, past chairman of the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Radiology & Interventions, a member of the U.S. FDA Neurological Devices Advisory Panel, and was on the oversight committee of the National Institutes of Health trial for carotid artery stenting. Dr. Higashida has published over 310 scientific articles on stroke and cerebrovascular diseases and authored over 110 book chapters and 4 textbooks. Dr. Higashida has served as a member of numerous medical and scientific committees. He has presented at over 750 scientific and professional meetings around the world.

Dr. Randall Higashida research interests includes cerebrovascular diseases, stroke, acute ischemic stroke, acute hemorrhagic stroke, stroke prevention, stroke imaging, carotid artery stenting, intracranial stenting, cerebral aneurysm treatment, arteriovenous malformation of brain.

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Dr. Miguel Souto Bayarri received his PhD in digital image processing of chest radiographs (1990). He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1991-1992).He did two fellowships in the department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins University (1993-1994). Dr. Miguel is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is actually involved in two new research projects funded by several grants from the Spanish and Galician Government: 1) Design, implementation and clinical validation of CAD systems applied to cancer detection in chest multidetector computed tomography (MDCT); and 2) Algorithm development for automatic quantification of both left and right ventricular function in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). Dr. Miguel is a radiologist dedicated to chest, cardiac and oncology radiology; and is responsible for the training of the residents. He has published more than 100 papers, including peer reviewed journals, chapters and international proceedings.

Dr.Miguel Souto Bayarri main research interests are digital image processing, digital radiology and computer aided diagnosis (CAD) related to chest computed tomography imaging, and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (development of algorithms for automatic quantification of left and right ventricular function).

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Dr. Alvaro Ruibal is a Professor of Radiology and Medical Physics and Head of Nuclear Medicine Department at University Hospital from Santiago de Compostela (USC). His academic formation includes studies of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine. University of Barcelona. Spain) and Doctoral Thesis (PhD) (Autonomous Medicine Faculty. Barcelona). Dr. Alvaro Ruibal has the Specialities of Endocrinology, Nuclear Medicine, and Senology/Breast Diseases. He is also the Chairman of Molecular Imaging and Medical Physics Research Group at USC, which includes a microSPECT, a microPET/CT, a dedicated breast PET and a Cyclotron-Unit next the Service. Dr. Alvaro has published 55 chapters in medical books, 185 papers in english language journals, 285 in spanish language journals, 265 Lectures and Communications in foreign Congresses/Courses, 814 in spanish Congresses /Courses and the direction of 25 Doctoral Thesis.

Dr. Alvaro Ruibal research interest includes molecular imaging, multimodal imaging, radiosensitivity.

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Dr. Rajendra Kedar completed his medical graduation and radiology residency in India. His research interest and collaborative projects, gave him an opportunity as a Clinical research fellow and senior registrar at the Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden hospital in England. Here, he did several research projects some of these include, effects of Tamoxifen in breast cancer prevention trial published in Lancet, ultrasound contrast media, breast cancer diagnosis, staging and response to neoadjuvant therapy. Dr. Rajendra Kedar did his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in body imaging. Since then he have been working in a large multispecialty academic and private practice in Florida. Currently he in an Associate professor of Radiology at the University of South Florida serving as director of body imaging education and fellowship program, and a faculty in musculoskeletal radiology. For past 16 years at USF, he has been involved not only on academic side as far as research, resident and medical student teaching, scientific publications, reviewing articles for journals but also have been involved with leadership position at hospital, Florida radiological society and ACR. He also have a keen interest in radiology utilization and health care integration projects. Dr. Rajendra Kedar has received many honors and awards.

Dr. Rajendra Kedar research interest includes Liver Imaging with CT/MR (transplant, cirrhosis and related complications, liver tumors, liver imaging with different contrast agents and techniques, post treatment appearance),Placental Imaging with different MR sequences including BOLD (currently have NIH grant for this project),Urogynaecology imaging especially dynamic pelvic floor imaging,GI imaging with MR,Appropriateness guidelines for follow-up imaging ,Radiology appropriate utilization programs and solutions.

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Dr. Ahmed M. Kamel Abdel Aal, M.D., M.Sc., PhD. is the chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. He serves as Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Center, and the Medical Director of the Vascular Access Service. Dr. Kamel is board certified in Radiology. He received fellowship training in Vascular and Interventional Radiology as well as Neuroradiology at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Kamel holds Masters of Science and Ph.D degrees in Radiology. Dr. Kamel practiced Interventional Radiology for 11 years and has been involved in residents and fellows’ education since 1999. He was awarded the “Top ten faculty award for excellence in resident education” four times, the “Certificate of Merit Award” from the Radiological Society of North America twice, the “Certificate of Merit Award” from the American Roentgen Ray Society, the “Certificate of Outstanding performance in Veterans Affairs Radiology Service” and the “Louisville Slugger Award for best Board reviewer”. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and shares with abstracts, educational exhibits and oral scientific presentations in various national and international conferences.

Dr. Kamel’s research interest includes endoprosthesis versus percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) to revise arteriovenous grafts at the venous anastomosis in hemodialysis patients; Interventions for pulmonary arteriovenous malformations; Peritoneal catheters; Outcomes of various oncologic interventions such as; Transarterial chemoembolization, transarterial radioembolization, ablation of liver and renal tumors. Dr. Kamel’s clinical interest includes oncologic interventions; Arterial interventions; Spine interventions; DVT management; Varicoceles embolization.

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Dr. Robert J. Bert is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Section Chief of Neuroradiology at University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, KY. Dr. Bert received his Ph.D in Neuroscience and M.D. in Medicine in 1991 from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He did his B.S in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1976. After this research fellowship, he entered radiology residency at the Univ. of MA -Worcester in preparation for a career in Neuroradiology, which required additional fellowship training that he received at Boston Medical Center. In 2000, he had the opportunity to make a career move to Tufts University to work with Dr. Rafeeque Bhadelia and learn cine flow imaging, as well as continue work on the molecular movements in the anterior chamber of the eye. In 2004, I relocated to the University of Colorado to become Neuroradiology Section Chief.

Dr. Robert J. Bert’s areas of interests are Cerebrovascular Disease and Cerebral Hemodynamics, Brain Perfusion in Alzheimer's Disease, Brain Tumor Imaging, Functional Imaging in Traumatic Brain Injury and Epilepsy. In 1983, Dr. Robert J. Bert started his formal research career in neuroscience with the study of ion channel-blocking pharmacological agents on rod photoreceptor membrane potential. During this time, cGMP-activated ion channels were first being discovered, and a fortuitous tip from one of my advisor’s colleagues led to his discovery that an unlikely agent, colchicine, blocks cGMP-activated ion channels with low affinity. 

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Dr. Kumar is Associate Professor of Radiology and Ohio Molecular Imaging Scholar at the Ohio State University. He is also Director of Laboratory for Translational Research in Imaging Pharmaceuticals of Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging. Krishan received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India) and worked as a researcher in academics at Wayne State University and Purdue University (1980-1987). He worked at National Cancer Institute between 1987 and 1988 as a Senior Staff Fellow in developing radiolabeled antibodies for diagnosis and therapy of cancer. He has published numerous papers in the field of MRI contrast agents. He also served on the USP’s committee’s for monograph and standards development.

Dr. Krishan Kumar research interests are development of MRI contrast agents and PET tracers for diagnostics applications, development of radiopharmaceuticals for cancer therapy, and process development for production of radionuclides from solid and liquid targets.

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Dr. Yiyan Liu is working as Associate professor in the Department of Radiology at Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Yiyan Liu received his PhD from Tongji Medical University Wuhan, China (1990). He did his Postdoctoral fellowships at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York from the Department of Nuclear medicine (2001-2004) and Sound Shore Medical Center, New Rochelle, New York Department of Surgery Internship (2000-2001). Currently  Dr. Yiyan Liu is an experienced nuclear radiologist with special expertise in oncologic and molecular imaging. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Yiyan Liu have a long term interest in prostate disease research from the basic science to the clinical aspects. He will continue to work on the molecular imaging of prostate cancer, specifically novel PET radiotracer for early diagnosis and detection of cancer recurrence. As a nuclear medicine specialist, he is also interested in the development of a new radionuclide therapy for prostate cancer. In addition, he has broad interests in PET imaging studies in various kinds of malignant tumors, for example the roles of PET in accurate staging and differential diagnosis between residual tumor and post-radiation necrosis for lung and cervical cancers.

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Dr. Brenda Hanna-Pladdy is Associate Professor of Neurology, Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine & Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is a clinical neuropsychologist and a member of the Division of Movement Disorders in the Neurology Department. She obtained her Ph.D. at Louisiana State University and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology under the direction of Kenneth Heilman, MD in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute. Prior to her current appointment at UMB, she held faculty appointments in the Department of Neurology at Emory University, Department of Psychiatry and Landon Center on Aging at University of Kansas School of Medicine, and in the Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Psychiatry Department of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a member of several editorial boards, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous journals and grant associations.

Dr. Brenda Hanna-Pladdy research program focuses on cognitive aspects of skilled movement disorders. This has included mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD), implicit learning, and apraxia following left hemisphere stroke. She have engaged in research regarding cognitive aspects of PD, and the neural substrates of subtypes of apraxic disturbances utilizing a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. she have conducted investigations evaluating cognitive and skilled movement deficits in PD (including executive deficits), and neural substrates evaluating dopamine with raclopride and FDG PET. Dr. Brenda Hanna-Pladdy have explored dopaminergic modulation of cognitive aspects of skill acquisition in PD, including planning and reliance on internal versus external cues. She currently have federally funded research that evaluates neuroplasticity and recovery of function following stroke, and the neural basis for a potential neurorehabilitation program utilizing multisensory cues. Her more recent work explores how training-induced musical instrumental skilled practice may enhance multisensory networks to provide compensation in advanced age.

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Dr. Jianqiao Luo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Dr. Luo was a nuclear medicine physicist in St. Vencent Medical Center in New York and appointed clinical assistant professor in Medical College of New York in 1995. He also served as medical physicist in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago from 2004 to 2007. Dr. Luo completed his research project on Monte Carlo Simulation for Compton Scattering Correction in SPECT in University of Michigan Medical Center and received his Ph.D. in Medical Physics in 1993 from Oakland University. He has published many articles and few book chapters.

Dr. Jianqiao Luo research and clinical interests include nuclear medicine imaging (SPECT, PET and PET-CT) - quantification, artifacts. molecular imaging (microSPECT, nanoSPECT and microPET) - imaging protocol, instrumentation and data analysis, and internal dosimetry for therapy procedures.

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Dr. Khan is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of Neuroradiology division at University of MS Medical Center. He did his medical graduation in Kashmir, India and his radiology residency at Nassau University Medical center, Stony Brook at New York followed by Neuroradiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He is involved in interpreting conventional and advanced neuro imaging including brain tumor, stroke, epilepsy, dementia and fetal imaging including CT, MRI, CT angiography and CT perfusion on patients on a daily basis. Work closely with neurologists and neurosurgeons to perform interventions for acute strokes and spine oncology interventions. He is actively involved with teaching of radiology and other sub-speciality residents rotating through the Neuroradiology division. He is author of multiple peer reviewed journal articles and has presented at multiple national meetings. He is involved in leadership positions in his department and hospital and has served as President of MS Radiological Society in close association with ACR.

Dr. Khan research interest includes brain tumor, dementia and spine imaging in particular but has been involved in various other projects especially in collaboration with radiation oncology with emphasis on imaging and treatment planning.

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Dr. Defeng Wang is Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has more than 10 years of medical image analysis, computational radiology, multimodal medical data fusion, medical image segmentation and registration, as well as statistical morphometry analysis. He is the founding director of Research Center for Medical Image Computing and founding head of Division of Imaging Informatics in Faculty of Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is member of IEEE, National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), Hong Kong Institute of Science, Organization of Human Brain Mapping, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association (HKOA), Chinese Dementia Research Association (CDRA), Hong Kong Neuroimaging Consortium, Shenzhen Association of Young Scientists, and International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society, etc. He has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 20 journals. He has secured over 10 major competitive research grants. He has also served the editorial boards of six scientific journals.

Dr. Defeng Wang’s research interests are medical image analysis, computational radiology, multimodal medical data fusion, medical image segmentation and registration, as well as statistical morphometry analysis.

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Dr.Cindy Lee is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Breast Imaging and Ultrasound subspecialties at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her medical degree from State University of New York in Stony Brook followed by an internal medicine internship at Winthrop University Hospital, NY. During her Diagnostic Radiology Residency training from 2009-2013 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD, she also completed the ACR’s Stephen Amis Quality and Safety fellowship in 2012. This was followed by a breast and ultrasound fellowship at UCSF in 2014. She has published many research articles and received many honours and awards.

Dr.Cindy Lee research interest includes Breast Imaging,Database Analysis, quality improvement and Patient Safety.

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Dr. Dhanashree Rajderkar is currently an Assistant professor in Radiology at Shands hospital and work in the division of Pediatric Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Neuroradiology at University of Florida, Gainesville,Florida,USA. She graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur, India (1995). She completed her Diploma in Medicine Radiology Diagnosis (D.M.R.D.), Department of Radiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Nagpur, India (1998). Dr. Dhanashree earned her Diplomate of the National Board in Radio- Diagnosis (D.N.B.), National Board of examinations, New Delhi, India (2001). She has completed 4 fellowships in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (2009-2014). She has been promoted as the Pediatric Radiology Division Chief since 10/01/15. She received honours and awards.

Dr. Dhanashree Rajderkar research interest includes Radiation reduction dose in Pediatric Population, Post transplant Proliferative disorders, hypoxic ischemic and Pediatric Neuroradiology .

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