STTARR PET/MRI WORKSHOP ON DECEMBER 3RD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MEDISO AND SIEMENS

STTARR will be holding a PET/MRI workshop this December 3rd to provide researchers with an overview of Preclinical PET/MRI imaging capabilities, contrast agents, translational and clinical studies. This workshop will be in partnership with Mediso USA and Siemens for their preclinical and clinical PET/MRI systems, respectively.

Target Audience: Graduate students, technicians, research associates, PI’s, and postdocs who are interested in using PET/MRI for their projects. The workshop aims at exploring the potential of combined PET/MRI for preclinical and clinical research.

Registration Fees:
$30 (UHN/internal participants)
$40 (external academics)
$60 (non-academics)

Date: Monday, 3 rd December 2018, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Location: 101 College Street, Room 4-204, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Tower (formerly TMDT), MaRS East Building, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7

PET/MRI Workshop FINAL Agenda:

9:00 Registration (Annie Hum)
9:15 WELCOME NOTE (Dr. David Jaffray, STTARR Director, EVP Innovation & Technology, UHN)
9:30 Session 1 – LET’s GET STTARR TED!
9:30 Preclinical imaging (Systems, Services, Support) (Dr. Justin Grant, 15min)
9:45 PET/MR technical insights to consider for study design, implementation & analysis (Doug Vines, Nuclear Medicine/PET Technologist, 30 min +15 min discussion)
10:30 Discussion of research interests from participants (15 minutes)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 2 – PET Tracers and Multimodality Contrast Agents (25 min talk +5 min discussion for each speaker)
11:00 UHN cyclotron facility & available radiotracers (Dr. David Green, Head Radiochemist, UHN)
11:30 Multimodality contrast agents (Maneesha Rajora, MD, PhD candidate from Dr. Gang Zheng lab, UHN)
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Session 3 – NanoScan PET/MRI System (25 min talk +5 min discussion)
13:00 System performance & specifications, examples of applications (Peter Koncz, Mediso USA)
13:30 Session 4 – Small and Large Preclinical Models for PET/MRI Studies (25 min talks +5 min discussion for each speaker)
13:30 Pancreatic cancer and hypoxia imaging (Dr. David Hedley, Medical Oncologist, UHN)
14:00 Cervical cancer and radiotherapy planning (Dr. Naz Chaudary, Scientist, UHN)
14:30 Prostate cancer imaging in a large in vivo model (Dr. Carl Fisher, Scientist, UHN)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 Session 5 – Translational PET/MRI (25 min talks +5 min discussion for each speaker)
15:15 System performance & specifications, examples of applications (Dr. Josh Schaefferkoetter, Physicist, Siemens Healthineers)
15:45 Tumor margin assessment tool for pathology co-registration (Dr. Jimmy Qiu, Manager Engineering, Techna Institute, UHN)
16:15 PET/MRI from the clinical perspective (Dr. Patrick Veit-Haibach, Director PET/MR Program, UHN)
16:45 FINAL REMARKS
17:00 Networking & STTARR Facility Tour

PLEASE RSVP VIA THIS REGISTRATION FORM , BY 5PM ON TUESDAY, 27 TH NOVEMBER 2018.

We have limited seats available. First-come-first-served.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please include any dietary restrictions or allergies on your registration form, and we will do our best to accommodate you.