First UNC-Chapel Hill Breast Imaging Symposium Held
The first University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Breast Imaging Symposium
was held on October 29, 2008. This event, which was sponsored by the
Biomedical Research Imaging Center, GE Healthcare, and Lineberger Comprehensive
Cancer Center, was held at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 75
attendees of the event included radiologists from academia and local private
practices, faculty, staff, and students from UNC, Duke, and NCSU in physics
and engineering, and industry representatives within the breast imaging device
field.
The purpose of the event was to bring together researchers and the radiology
community in the triangle who are involved in various aspects of breast imaging
in hopes of fostering communications with each other and to gain insight from
some of the top researchers in the breast imaging field across the US and Canada
with the hope of generating new research ideas and collaborations across the
various disciplines represented in the development of the next generation of
breast imaging systems. View List of Speakers.
Dr. Etta Pisano, Director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center and Vice Dean of Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine gave a talk entitled “Future Frontiers in Breast Imaging.”
Dr. Otto Zhou, Professor of Physics and Material Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, discussed his application of lab’s nanotechnology research in the development of a new breast tomosynthesis system.
Dr. John Boone, Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology at the University of California Davis, talks with an attendee.
Dr. Martin Yaffe, Professor of Medical Imaging and Medical Biophysics at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Canada (on right), and Dr. Martin Tornai, Associate Professor of Radiology Duke University Medical Center and Biomedical Engineering Duke University (on left), meet with an attendee.
Dr. Constance Lehman, Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Breast Imaging at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, in conversation with a symposium attendee.
