Events and Lectures - Special Lectures
Weens Lecture

26th Annual Weens Lecture
Friday, September 25, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Emory University School of Medicine Building

Feature Presentation
Molly Ann Faries, PhD
Professor Emerita, Department of History of Art
Indiana University/Bloomington

Topic
Seeing Through Paint: Art Historical Research Using IR Imaging

Buffet reception to follow.

Please RSVP By Friday, September 18, 2009 To
Laura Padgett (404) 712-5497 OR
LLPADGE@EMORY.EDU

About the Presenter

Molly Faries, PhD is Professor Emerita at Indiana University/Bloomington, where she has been professor since 1985, and the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, where she held a Chair in Technical Studies in Art History from 1998 to 2005. Her Ph.D. is from Bryn Mawr College, 1972, with a dissertation on the sixteenth-century Dutch painter, Jan van Scorel. She has directed three long-term infrared reflectography (IRR) research projects: a National Endowment for the Humanities Basic Research Grant (1984-87); the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant for Art-Historical Study Using Infrared Reflectography (1990-97); and Painting in Antwerp Before Iconoclasm, a socio-economic approach (2000-04), a project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and co-directed with Prof. M.P.J. Martens. Her 2003 publication, written and co-edited with Prof. Ron Spronk, provides an overview of research methods and approaches used in the field of technical art history: Recent Developments in the Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Painting: Methodology, Limitations & and Perspectives.

 

 

To read more about Dr. Faries, visit her site at: www.indiana.edu/~arthist/faculty/faries.shtml

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Heinz Stephen Weens, MD

The history of Dr. Heinz Weens' career marks the conception of the Emory Radiology Department. In 1941, he was the first radiology resident at Grady Memorial Hospital and in the City of Atlanta. During the final year of his residency, WWII recruited radiologists for duty overseas. This left Dr. Weens to support the radiology needs of not only at Grady, but also at Piedmont Hospital. Upon finishing his residency in 1944, he continued his training in Boston. When Dr. Weens returned to Emory, he initiated a residency training program that incorporated both Grady and the Emory University Hospital for the first time. With an enrollment of two residents, the Emory Radiology Residency Program was a reality. By 1947, Dr. Weens had earned the title of Associate in Radiology. This appointment punctuates the time that Radiology was separated from Surgery. Within a year, Dr. Weens was made a full Professor and Chairman of the Department.

 

Through out his career Dr. Weens continued to be recognized as a leader in the field of Radiology.  Not only was he known for his clinical excellence but also for his innovations in research.  He was the first to recognize the nephrogram following angiocardiography’s diagnostic significance, particularly in the diagnosis of mass lesions of the kidney and his studies let to the development of Nephrotomography. He is also noted as a member of the team that performed the first diagnostic cardiac catheterization and angiocardiogram and pioneered the studies using 35-mm cineradiography, just to name a few.  The results of these successes led to many publications and presentations.

 

Dr. Weens was an innovative researcher, an inspiring mentor and an engaged physician accentuating the three pillars of Emory that continue to support the Emory organization today.

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Previous Visiting Professors

2008 - C. Douglas Phillips, MD, FACR ~ Professor in the Departments of Radiology, Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Virginia School of Medicine; "The Death of George Washington - Which ENT Condition Did It?"

2007 - Peter Lacovara, PhD ~ Director of Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum "Radiologic Examination of Egyptian Mummies"

2005 - Jerome P. Kassirer, MD ~ Tufts University School of Medicine

2004 - Anne Roberts, MD ~ University of California - San Diego

2003 - Leonard Berlin, MD ~ Rush North Shore Medical Center

2002 - Fred A. Mettler, Jr., MD ~ University of New Mexico School of Medicine

2001 - M. Paul Capp, MD ~ Executive Director, The American Board of Radiology

2000 - Charles W. Kerber, MD ~ University of California, San Diego

1999 - Barry T. Katzen, MD ~ Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

1998 - Jeremy W.R. Young, MD ~ Medical University of South Carolina

1997 - N. Reed Dunnick, MD ~ University of Michigan Medical Center

1996 - Bruce L. McClennan, MD ~ Yale University School of Medicine

1995 - Ronald G. Evens, MD ~ Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

1994 - George R. Leopold, MD ~ University of California, San Diego
 
1993 - Theresa C. McLoud, MD ~ Harvard Medical School

1992 - Jeremy J. Kaye, MD ~ Cornell University Medical College

1991 - Ingvar Andersson, MD ~ Malmo General Hospital, Sweden

1990 - Robert J. Stanley, MD ~ University of Alabama at Birmingham

1989 - Joseph T. Ferrucci, MD ~ Harvard Medical School

1988 - Robert I. White, Jr., MD ~ Yale University School of Medicine

1987 - Donald L. Resnick, MD ~ University of California at San Diego

1986 - J. Scott Dunbar, MD ~ The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

1985 - Meredith A. Weinstein, MD ~ Cleveland Clinic Foundation

1984 - Lee F. Rogers, MD ~ Northwestern University Medical School

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