Sprawls Lecture
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
7:30 a.m.
Emory University Hospital Auditorium
(2nd Floor, near the E elevator)
Sprawls Lecturer:
Richard E. Carson, PhD
Yale University
Topic
PET Imaging in Neuroscience and Diabetes
Richard E. Carson, PhD
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Richard E. Carson received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1983 in Biomathematics. From that time on, he has focused his research on the development and application of mathematical techniques for the study of human beings and non-human primates with Positron Emission Tomography (PET), a noninvasive imaging technology that uses radiopharmaceuticals to trace in vivo physiology and pharmacology. From 1983 until 2005, Dr. Carson was an integral part of the PET program at the National Institutes of Health, rising to the rank of Senior Scientist. In 2005, Dr. Carson joined the faculty of Yale University as Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Diagnostic Radiology. He is Director of the Yale PET Center, a state-of-the-art facility focused on quantitative PET techniques using novel radiopharmaceuticals. Dr. Carson is also Director of Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Carson's research interests are concentrated in the following areas: 1) New algorithms for image reconstruction with PET, 2) Development of mathematical models for novel radiopharmaceuticals to produce images of physiological parameters, 3) Use of receptor-binding ligands to measure drug occupancy and dynamic changes in neurotransmitters by analysis of PET tracer signals, and 4) applications of PET tracers in clinical populations and preclinical models of disease. Dr. Carson has published over 175 papers in peer-reviewed journals, given over 80 invited lectures and is a member of the editorial board of two of the leading journals in the field of brain PET, the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.
Dr. Carson has received many awards including, the Kuhl-Lassen award from the Brain Imaging Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in 2007 and was named as one of the 25 mostinfluential in the field of Radiology by RT-Image.
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/
Award for Excellence in Educational Innovation from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
Perry Sprawls, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Radiology, at Emory University received the annual Award for Excellence in Educational Innovation from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) at the recent meeting in Philadelphia.
The award was for Dr. Sprawls' work on Collaborative Teaching: A model for Enriching the Medical Physics Learning Environment.
The concept of Collaborative Teaching, as developed and practiced by Dr. Sprawls, brings together a senior and highly experienced educator with an extensive network of educators teaching in classrooms and conferences all over the world in a collaborative effort to provide highly effective learning, especially in the field of medical imaging and radiology.
The role of the senior educator is to translate their many years of professional experience into educational resources, especially high-quality visuals, which can then be used in class and conference rooms anywhere in the world.
The role of the many local educators is to use the resources and guide the learning process and adding their own knowledge and experience, especially as it applies to their local educational needs. The goal of this collaborative model is to enrich the classroom teaching with resources based on experience that is not always available locally.
Dr. Sprawls, who joined the Emory faculty 50 years ago, has translated much of his extensive experience in medical imaging into educational resources that are available at no cost on the web at http://www.sprawls.org/resources. In a typical week these resources are used by several thousand educators and students in over 80 different countries.
2012- Richard Carson, PhD ~Yale University~
PET Imaging in Neuroscience and Diabetes
2012- Eva Sevick- Muraca, PhD ~ The University of Texas Health Center~
2011- Charles Mistretta, PhD ~University of Wisconsin~
Sub-Nyquist Acquisition and Constrained Reconstruction in Time Resolved
Angiography and Accelerated Medical Imaging Applications
2009 - Roderic I. Pettigrew, PhD, MD ~ National Institutes of Health (NIH) and
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Transforming Healthcare: The Critical Role of Innovation in Imaging
2008 - Walter Huda, PhD ~ Medical University of South Carolina
Radiation Risks
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
2006 - Perry Sprawls, PhD, PE, FACR, FAAPM, DABR, DABMP, CCE ~ Professor of Emeritus of Radiology
at Emory University School of Medicine
Optimizing X-ray Imaging and the Digital Dilemma