View from the bench: Emerging technologies for Interventional Radiology

Coordinator(s)

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  Punit Prakash, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Kansas State Univ

  Disclosure(s): phenoMapper, LLC: Research Grant Recipient (Terminated, October 31, 2021); Precision Microwave, Inc: Research Grant Recipient (Ongoing); Relievant MedSystems: Research Grant Recipient (Terminated, November 30, 2022)
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  Govindarajan Srimathveeravalli, Ph.D.

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts

  Disclosure(s): Aperture: Consultant (Ongoing)

The panel will draw from five of the following speakers: Marites Melancon (biomaterials), Aichi Chien (imaging), Agata Exner (nanoparticle, therapy and imaging), Malisa Sarntinoranont (drug delivery models), Hong Chen (focused US), Nirmala Ramanujam (ablation and devices), Susan Hagness (ablation), and Sharon Evans (immunology). They represent women researchers who have made major contributions to technologies relevant to IR, and will share their vision of how they view their fields progressing. These researchers are from major technical societies (EMBS, ASME BED, SfB, BMES

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:48 AM

  Biomaterials
  

  Speaker: Marites P. Melancon, PhD – Department of Interventional Radiology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• 8:48 AM – 9:06 AM

  Computational models for drug delivery
  

  Speaker: Malisa Sarntinoranont, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Flordia
• 9:06 AM – 9:24 AM

  Imaging
  

  Speaker: Aichi Chien, PhD, FAHA – UCLA Radiology
• 9:24 AM – 9:42 AM

  Nanoparticles and ultrasound
  

  Speaker: Agata Exner, PhD (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University
• 9:42 AM – 10:00 AM

  Q & A