Wednesday, March 5, 2008
7:30 a.m.
Emory University Hospital Auditorium
(2nd Floor, near the E elevator)
Feature Presentation
R. Gilberto Gonzalez, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Topic
TBA
R. Gilberto Gonzalez, MD, PhD
Dr. Gonzalez is Chief of Neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD from Harvard and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He did post doctoral work in Molecular Biophysics at MIT, internship and residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and a neuroradiology fellowship at MGH. His primary research interests involve the development and application of advanced neuroimaging methods including MR spectroscopy and functional MRI and CT. Areas of active investigation include acute stroke diagnosis and its treatment, and the pathogenesis of neuroAIDS. He has published over 125 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 75 chapters and reviews, and 2 books. He is the recipient of several NIH and DOD grants in the areas of neuroAIDS, Alzheimers Disease, brain tumors, and stroke.
Dr. Gonzalez received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his PhD at the University of California.
Dale Cooper began his Emory Radiology Residency in 1962, based at Grady Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Heinz Weens. In his third year of residency, Dr. Ralph Heinz joined the Emory faculty as Chief of Special Procedures sparking Dr. Cooper's interest through teaching sessions describing the techniques used in neuroradiology.
Dr. Cooper followed his residency with a Special NIH Fellowship lead by Dr. Heinz at Emory. During this time he engaged in clinical research that has lead to the way Neuroradiolgogy is practiced today. Their research team overcame apprehension of other departments and demonstrated what neuroradiology could do both in the way of technique and interpretation.
Upon completion of the fellowship Dr. Cooper relocated his family to north east to join the faculty of Philadelphia General Hospital. Three months after relocating, Dale was involved in a boating accident and did not survive. His mentor, Dr. Heinz reflects, "Dale Cooper was the finest of our young people in Atlanta. He was extremely bright, well-informed, polite, but quite firm, and demanding of himself as well as others. He was a natural leader and he commanded enormous respect from all of us. I still miss him."
This lecture is a tribute to a young man who displayed dedication to perpetuate excellence, innovation and by exploring the possibilities contributed to the area of medicine known today as Neuroradiology.
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