Events
Sarmistha Sen Memorial Run/Walk
The Sarmistha Sen Memorial Run/Walk will be held on Sunday, August 1, 2021, starting at 7 a.m. Read about the chair established in her honor. RSVP for the event.
Organizer: Arindam Roy
Contact: Mary Whitmore
Dr. Raquibul Hannan - Kidney Cancer Treatment with SAbR
Speaker: Raquibul Hannan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor
Topic: SAbR in Kidney Cancer
Organizer: Judy Nicholson Kidney Cancer Foundation
Contact: 214-648-9669
MRB Seminar Series
Speaker: Weiping Zou, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, University of Michigan Medicine
Topic: Macrophages in the tumor metastatic sites
Organizer: Jennifer Staples
Contact: 214-648-1162
MRB Seminar Series
Speaker: Ilya Finkelstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Topic: Virus, Vaccines, Variants
Organizer: Jennifer Staples
Contact: 214-648-1162
MRB Seminar Series
Speaker: Michael P. Hay, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
Topic: Selective inhibition of DNA-dependent protein kinase to radiosensitize head and neck squamous cell carcinomas
Organizer: Jennifer Staples
Contact: 214-648-1162
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Research
Speaker: Eenas A. Omari, Ph.D., Instructor, Therapeutic Medical Physicist, Medical College of Wisconsin
Topic: Magnetic resonance imaging-guided adaptive radiation therapy (MRgART) - MCW experience
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
MRB Seminar Series
Speaker: Gabriel Sawakuchi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson
Topic: Targeting ATR to enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy
Organizer: Jennifer Staples
Contact: 214-648-1162
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Research
Speaker: Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, Ph.D., DABR, Assistant Professor, Medical Physics, University of Victoria
Topic: Developments of X-ray beam radiotherapies: KVAT and FLASH
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Clinical Education
Speaker: Taeho Kim, Ph.D., DABR, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine
Topic: Adaptive MR-guided radiotherapy using ViewRay MRidian
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Research
Speaker: Girgis Obaid, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas
Topic: Capitalizing on nanomedicine to transform radiation therapy
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-1162
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Clinical Education
Speaker: Thomas Banks, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Topic: UTSW Intravascular Brachytherapy Program
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-1162
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Clinical Education
Speaker: Mike Speiser, Ph.D., DABR, Chief Medical Physicist, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Topic: Motion Management in Lung SBRT
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Research
Speaker: Jie Deng, Ph.D., Candidate Presentation
Topic: The Role of MRI Physicist in Clinical Services and Translational Researches
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-1162
Science Cafe - Breast Cancer, Bench to Bedside: The Interface of Clinical Oncology and Research
Physician scientist Prasanna Alluri, M.D., Ph.D. will lead us on a deep dive into the science behind targeted breast cancer treatments, treatment resistance in patients, and advances in radiation approaches. Dr. Alluri's research lab focuses on improving the care of breast cancer patients through translational research at the interface of clinical oncology, cancer biology, molecular genetics, and genomics. Learn more.
Organizer: Mary Whitmore
Contact: 214-648-9669
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Research
Speaker: Arnold Pompos, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Topic: From Fundamental Physics Describing the Structure of Our Universe to Medical Physics
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-1162
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Clinical Education
Speaker: Justin Park, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director of Adaptive Therapy
Topic: Introduction to Online Adaptive Radiotherapy
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
Medical Physics Seminar Series - Clinical Education
Speaker: Yang Park, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern
Topic: Review of technologies in SAbR
Organizer: David Chiu
Contact: 214-648-8002
The David A. Pistenmaa, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Lecture in Radiation Oncology
Speaker: Nigam Shah, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Topic: Personalized Care Via Machine Learning
Organizer: Danielle Lynn
Contact: 214-648-2047
Medical Phyics Seminar Series
Speaker: Dajiang Zhu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
Topic: Computational Modeling and Machine Learning in Brain Imaging
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: Jiang Du, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of California San Diego
Topic: Ultra-short echo time magnetic resonance imaging: technical development and clinical applications
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: Lei Ren, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University
Topic: Fast low-dose intelligent imaging for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-1617
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: Wei Chen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Physics; Director, The Center for Security Advances Via Applied Nanotechnology
Topic: Exploration of nanoparticle sensitizers to enable radiotherapy and oxidative therapy for deep cancer treatment
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
AIM Seminar Series
Speaker: Nick Ruozzi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Topic: Probabilistic Models + Deep Networks for Continuous Modeling
Organizer: Marisa Homan
Contact: 214-645-8542
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: You Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Topic: Optimization in the treatment planning system
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-1617
AIM Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Hua Li, Research Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic: Advanced Machine-Learning Techniques and Applications in Radiation Therapy
Organizer: Marisa Homan
Contact: 214-645-8542
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Jan Schuemann, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School
Topic: Modeling biological effects using Monte Carlo simulations
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
AIM Seminar Series
Speaker: Cui Tao, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, UT Health Science Center at Houston
Topic: Big Biomedical Data Analysis Using Ontology and Semantic Technologies
Organizer: Shar Dabney
Contact: 214-645-7019
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Ken Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Topic: Quantitative optical tomography for pre-clinical radiation research
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
AIM Seminar Series
Speaker: James Lamb, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, ULCA
Topic: Radiation Therapy Safety - Automation, AI and Human Factors
Organizer: Shar Dabney
Contact: 214-648-1617
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Pratik Shah, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Topic: Unorthodox AI and Machine Learning Use Cases and Future of Clinical Medicine
Organizer: Shar Dabney
Contact: 214-648-1617
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: James Robar, Ph.D., FCCPM, Chief, Department of Medical Physics
Topic: Novel approaches to targeting tumors with radiation therapy... using diamonds, gold and copper
Organizer: Alexis Lamar
Contact: 214-648-8002
Medical Physics Seminar Series
Speaker: Wonmo Sung, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
Topic: A Tumor-Immune Interaction Model for Hepatocellular Carcinoma based on measured Lymphocyte Counts of Patients undergoing Radiotherapy
Organizer: Shar Dabney
Contact: 214-645-7019
AIM Seminar Series
Speaker: Sanjay Aneja, M.D., Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology
Title: Applications of Deep Learning within Clinical Radiation Oncology
As a physician scientist, Dr. Aneja’s research focuses on the application of machine-learning techniques on clinical oncology. Efforts include deep learning to derive imaging-based biomarkers of cancer outcomes, AI-driven collection of patient-reported outcomes, and machine-learning methods for clinical trial classification.
Organizer: Gabrielle Hawthorne
Contact: 214-645-8523
MRB Work in Progress
Presenter: Yaping Huang, part of Dr. Guo-Min Li’s Lab
Organizer: Jennifer Staples
Contact: 214-648-1162
AIM Seminar Series
Speaker: Eric Larson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Bobby Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University
Title: Using Machine Learning for Smartphone-Based Health Sensing
Organizer: Gabrielle Hawthorne
Contact: 214-645-8523
AIM Seminar Series
Speaker: Charles Mayo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Michigan Institute of Data Science
Title: Opening AI Vitas in Radiation Oncology with Big Data Analytics Resource Systems
Organizer: Gabrielle Hawthorne
Contact: 214-645-8523
Medical Physics and Engineering Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Corey Clark, Ph.D.,Deputy Director of Research, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Human and Machine Intelligence (HuMIn) Game Lab, SMU Guildhall & Bobby Lyle School of Engineering
Topic: Capturing the Intrinsic Power of Video Games
Organizer: Gabrielle Hawthorne
Contact: 214-645-8523