ISEP-Diagnostic Workshop in Patras, Greece

Course Directors: Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD - AAPM, George Kagadis, PhD and George Nikiforidis, PhD - Patras, Greece

June 17-20, 2011

Program Schedule

 AAPM faculty to arrive in Patras, Greece on Thursday, June 16th, 2011

• CF = Coffe Break - 15 minutes
• LB = Lunch Break - 1 h 45 mimutes
• TB = Tea Break - 15 minutes
• PHILIPS = Philips presentation (at 13:35 - 2nd day)

Total: 6 hr 30 min if ends at 5.15 pm
Total of 22 instructional hours (for CME purposes)
Both the Welcome Party and the Gala Dinner will take place in the Achaia Beach Hotel 

Within the opening ceremony the following people will adress a welcoming message and/or instructions for the course: 

• Professor G. Panayiotakis (rector UoP)
• Professor G. Nikiforidis (chairman dept. Med Phys UoP)
• Professor M. Mahesh (AAPM)
• Professor A. Seibert (AAPM)
• Professor W. Hendee (AAPM)
• Professor S. Pneumatikos (House of Sciences)
• G. Kagadis (UoP)

  Few Words About The Lecturers

Don Frey: Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, The Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Ave., Charleston, SC 29425. G. Donald Frey was raised in Buffalo, NY.  He graduated from Canisius College in 1965 with a BS Degree in physics and minor in philosophy.  He was also named a presidential scholar while at Canisius.  After Canisius he attended the University of South Carolina where he held NASA and National Science Foundation fellowships.  In 1970 he was graduated from USC with Ph.D. degree in nuclear physics. After brief service in the United States Army Ordnance Corps he began his career at the Medical University of South Carolina where he is a medical physicist.  Presently he is a Professor of Radiology. He is diplomat of the American Board of Radiology in Radiological Physics and is a Trustee of that organization.  He is also a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. He is an active member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).   He served as chairman of the AAPM Education Council, has served twice as director of the AAPM summer school and as director of the European summer school.  He is a past president of the AAPM. He is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology. He is a founding-director of the Commission for the Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs.  He served as chairman and president of that organization in 2001. He has co-authored several books and published scientific papers. He is a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the European Society of Radiology, the Radiologic Society of North America, the American College of Radiology and Sigma Xi. 

William Hendee​: William R. Hendee received the PhD degree in physics from the University of Texas.  He joined the University of Colorado, ultimately serving as Professor and Chair of Radiology for several years.  In 1985 he moved to Chicago as Vice President of Science and Technology for the American Medical Association.  In 1991 Dr. Hendee joined the faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin as Senior Associate Dean and Vice President with faculty appointments as professor and vice chair of radiology with additional professorships in biophysics, radiation oncology and bioethics.  He is also Professor in Bioengineering at Marquette University, Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Clinical Professor of Radiology at the University of New Mexico, and Adjunct Professor of Radiology at the University of Colorado.  From September through December 1994, Dr. Hendee served as Acting Executive Vice President and Dean of the Medical College. In January 1995 he assumed additional responsibilities as Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.   In 2005 he was appointed as President of the MCW Research Foundation.  He currently holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Biophysics and Institute for Health & Society. Dr. Hendee is certified in Radiologic Physics by the American Board of Radiology and in Health Physics by the American Board of Health Physics.  He has been a Director of the American Board of Health Physics and the Health Physics Society, chairman of the Diagnostic Physics Examination Committee for the American Board of Radiology, and Past-President of the American Board of Radiology.  He is past president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and past vice president of the National Patient Safety Foundation.  He is currently Chair of the American Board of Radiology Foundation and President and CEO of the Commission on the Accreditation of Medical Physics Graduate Programs.  Dr. Hendee has authored or co-authored over 400 scientific articles and 24 books. He is the editor of Medical Physics, the most widely distributed and read journal in medical physics and engineering in medicine in the world. In 2010 he was awarded the American College of Radiology gold medal award. He received an honorary doctorate from Millsaps College in 1988 and from the University of Patras, Patras Greece in 2009. Other awards include the Radiological Society of North America’s gold medal, the gold medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Elda Anderson Award of the Health Physics Society, and the William D. Coolidge medal from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. 

 Eugene Lief: Eugene Lief received his Ph.D. in Nuclear and Particle Physics in 1987 in Russia.  After immigration to the US in 1991 he moved to the field of Medical Physics.  In 1993-1996 Clinical Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center received training in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiologic Physics.  After the Fellowship worked on several research projects, held Assistant Professor appointments at Mayo Clinic and New York University, published 20 reseach papers and 4 book chapters, had a successful grant application, has been teaching Medical Physics.  Served as a Radiation Safety Officer and as a member of Radiation Safety Committee.  Worked as Director of Medical Physics in an Academic Center and a teaching hospital.  Currently works as a Clinical Medical Physicist practicing in New York and New Jersey.  Certified by the American Board of Radiology and the American Board of Medical Physics, Licensed to practice Medical Physics by the State of New York and registered as a Medical Physicist in New Jersey. As a practicing Medical Physicist he is familiar with day-to-day issues of clinical work of a hospital employee and a consultant Physicist.  

Mahadevappa Mahesh: Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD, FAAPM, FACR, is the Associate Professor of Radiology and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. He is also the Chief Physicist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Prior joining Hopkins, Dr Mahesh obtained his Ph.D. in Medical Physics from Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. He is also a special research volunteer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD. He has published and lectured extensively in the United States and Internationally in the area of MDCT technology, radiation doses in medical imaging and other medical physics areas. Dr Mahesh is a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2007) and fellow of the American College of Radiology (2009). Recently, Dr Mahesh has published articles about radiation dose and risks from the airport scanners and has given numerous interviews to both news and print media. Dr Mahesh is the editor of the Physics Columns (Technology Talk and Medical Physics Consult) and editorial board member for the Journal of American College of Radiology (JACR) since 2007, editor for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Newsletter since 2007, deputy editor of Academic Radiology and is the Contributing Editor for RadioGraphics. He chairs or serves on various committees in the AAPM, RSNA and ACR including AAPM-ISEP program. He is member of American College of Radiology Council Steering Committee since 2010. Dr Mahesh is the author of the textbook titled ‘MDCT Physics: The Basics – Technology, Image Quality and Radiation Dose’ published in June 2009 by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. The book has been translated to Japanese language in 2010.   

Anthony Seibert: Dr. James Anthony (Tony) Seibert received a Ph.D. in Radiological Sciences from the University of California Irvine in 1982, specializing in quantitative digital fluoroscopic imaging. Dr. Seibert was appointed Assistant Professor of Radiology in 1983 at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, pursuing digital imaging research, physics education efforts for graduate students and radiology residents, as well as quality control for imaging equipment in Diagnostic Radiology. He now is Professor of Radiology, with continuing academic interests in digital mammography and imaging informatics. In 2004 – 2006 Dr. Seibert was elected Chair of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR, now known as the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, SIIM), is currently the President (second year of a three year term from 2010 – 2012) of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), is a member of the task force on Quantitative Imaging and Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA) for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and is a co-chair for development of technical standards and guidelines regarding medical physics issues in clinical imaging for the American College of Radiology (ACR). Author of over 90 peer-reviewed articles in the literature, co-author of The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging textbook for diagnostic physics education, and international speaker for the AAPM and International Atomic Energy Agency education events, Dr. Seibert continues to follow academic interests in the development of cutting edge technologies such as dedicated breast CT, digital tomosynthesis, imaging informatics, and a broad-based medical physics education program to improve the state of imaging science for the betterment of patient care. 

Habib Zaidi: PD Habib Zaidi Ph.D is senior physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and faculty member at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also visiting Professor at the University Medical Center of Groningen (The Netherlands) and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA, France). He received a Ph.D. and habilitation (PD) in medical physics from Geneva University for dissertations on Monte Carlo modelling and quantitative analysis in positron emission tomography. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by the Medical School of Geneva University, which elected him to become faculty member as Privat-Docent (Assoc. professor). Dr. Zaidi is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge interdisciplinary biomedical research and clinical diagnosis in addition to lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate courses on medical physics and medical imaging. His research is supported by the Swiss National Foundation and centres on modelling nuclear medical imaging systems using the Monte Carlo method, dosimetry, image correction, reconstruction and quantification techniques in emission tomography as well as statistical image analysis in molecular brain imaging, and more recently on novel design of dedicated high-resolution PET and combined PET-MR scanners. He was guest editor for 4 special issues of peer-reviewed journals dedicated to Medical Image Segmentation, PET Instrumentation and Novel Quantitative Techniques, Computational Anthropomorphic Anatomical Models and Functional Imaging of Neuroendocrine Tumors and serves as associate editor for Medical Physics, the International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, the International Journal of Tomography & Statistics and the Journal of Engineering & Applied Sciences. He is also a member of the editorial board of Nuclear Medicine Communications, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, International Journal of Molecular Imaging, Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal, the Open Medical Imaging Journal, the Open Neuroimaging Journal, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Consumer Health Informatics and Recent Patents on Medical Imaging and serves as scientific reviewer for leading journals in medical imaging. He is a senior member of the IEEE and Vice Chair of the professional relations committee of the International Organization for Medical Physics in addition to being affiliated to several International medical physics and nuclear medicine organisations. He is involved in the evaluation of research proposals for European and International granting organisations and participates in the organisation of International symposia and top conferences as member of scientific committees. He is a recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious 2003 Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award given by the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of the IEEE, the 2004 Mark Tetalman Memorial Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the prestigious 2007 Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics  given by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) for "outstanding accomplishments in the application of biological physics to the field of medical imaging". Dr. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of many keynote lectures at an International level, has authored over 280 publications, including ~125 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters and is the editor of three textbooks on Therapeutic Applications of Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine, Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Small Animals. 

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