"MR-GUIDED HIFU OF THE BRAIN: POTENTIALS AND CHALLENGES", 5TH OF OCTOBER, 2015, 17:30-19:00, CONFERENCE ROOM OF CGFB

A conference by Pr Dennis Parker, Director of Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Salt Lake City, USA

The conference is organized by the TRAIL workpackage "MRI guided HIFU"

Contact: Bruno Quesson, CNRS, CRCTB U1045 - IHU LYRIC, bruno.quesson@u-bordeaux.fr

Dr. Dennis Parker earned his MS in Physics from Brigham Young University and his PhD in Medical Biophysics and Computing from the University of Utah. He is the Mark H. Huntsman endowed Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, and Director of the Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research. Dr. Parker is also an investigator of the Huntsman Cancer Institute and a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program. With more than 35 years of experience in medical imaging research and image guided therapies, Dr. Parker has extensively published in his areas of expertise. These areas include: physics and mathematics of medical imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA), and MR guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) in breast and pancreatic cancer, as well as general cancer magnetic resonance imaging. Prior to joining the University of Utah in 1982 as an assistant professor, Dr. Parker was an assistant professor at the University of California at San Francisco. In 2000, he received the Distinguished Research Award from University of Utah and prior to this was appointed President of the Magnetic Resonance Angiography Club (1998). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineers (2008).