3rd Annual Sprawls Lecture
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
7:30 a.m.
Emory University Hospital Auditorium
(2nd Floor, near the E elevator)
Feature Presentation
Walter Huda, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Topic
TBA
Walter Huda, PhD
Dr. Huda is a member of the Department of Radiology at MUSC, where he uses is knowledge and skills set of radiological physics. Dr. Huda is dedicated to the expansion of education to practitioners worldwide through research, Web-sharing and collaboration. On a smaller scale, he enjoys working with the clinicians, researchers and particularly the education of residents.
Huda is the author of a scientific best seller, "Review of Radiologic Physics," which has sold 10,000 copies of each of the first two editions.
A native of Yorkshire, England, Huda received a bachelor's degree in physics from Oxford University; his doctorate in medical physics was obtained at the Hammersmith Hospital (University of London) where he was involved in a study of trace elemental analysis of biomedical tissues.
Dr. Sprawls' greatest career contributions have been in medical imaging and medical physics education, not only at the university level in the U.S. but around the world. Dr. Sprawls is recognized as an international leader in the process of developing shared and open web-based resources to improve education in all countries. He is now working with institutions and organizations around the world in the process of re-engineering the educational process.
Dr. Sprawls became Professor of Emeritus of Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine, in 2005, at the conclusion of a 45-year tenure on the faculty that began in 1960 in the Department of Physics.
To read more about the career of Dr. Sprawls visit: http://www.sprawls.org/retirement/
2008 - Peter Lacovara, PhD ~ Distinguished Chair of Imaging Sciences, The Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas) "Radiologic Examination of Egyptian Mummies"
2007 - King C. Li, MD, FRCP(C), MBA ~ Distinguished Chair of Imaging Sciences, The Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas) "Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering in the Genomica Era: Opportunities and Challenges"