“The Sorcerer's Apprentice - The Future of Medical Imaging”

Theme: Imaging

 

When: Thursday 8 July 2010 – 5.00 pm

Drink reception follows at 6pm - open to all attendees

 

Where: CRUK Cambridge Research Institute Lecture Theatre
(Li Ka Shing Centre - Robinson Way)

 

Host: Professor David J. Lomas

 

Guest lecturer: Professor Bruce Hillman

 

Title of talk: “The Sorcerer's Apprentice - The Future of Medical Imaging”

 

 

Bruce Hillman, M.D., FACR, is the Theodore E. Keats Professor of Radiology and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia where he was Chair of the department from 1992 until 2003. He is now the chair and principal investigator of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). ACRIN is a consortium to generate, execute, and report on multicenter clinical trials in imaging as related to cancer, which has accrued more than 76,000 participants to imaging clinical trials and published significant papers in high-impact journals. To date, the network, for which Dr Hillman is the principal investigator and chair, has received $192+ million in grant funding. Dr. Hillman is also a member of the ACR Board of Chancellors and a fellow of the American College of Radiology.

 

As a research scientist, Dr Hillman has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles, 34 book chapters, 4 books, and two defining works on the utilization of imaging by non-radiologists, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Hillman is a former editor-in-chief of Investigative Radiology and Academic Radiology and a recipient of the George C. Marshall Memorial Fund Fellowship, the John A. Hartford Foundation Fellowship, and a Pew Memorial Trust Fellowship honoree.

 

 

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