Bruce Hasegawa Memorial Lecture-Dedicated Breast CT: Towards Clinical Translation for Breast Cancer Screening
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This annual lecture honors the legacy of Dr. Bruce Hasegawa: his pioneering research accomplishments, his ability to educate and inspire those he taught and mentored, and his generosity towards others.
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This annual lecture honors the legacy of Dr. Bruce Hasegawa: his pioneering research accomplishments, his ability to educate and inspire those he taught and mentored, and his generosity towards others.
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Biomedical Imaging Innovation and Clinical Translation in Next-Gen CT
Director, Office for Project Statistical and Design Support
University of Arizona
Dedicated Breast CT: Towards Clinical Translation for Breast Cancer Screening
Dr. Srinivasan Vedantham is a Professor in the Department of Medical Imaging. He joined the University of Arizona after serving as a faculty at the Department of Radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and as an adjunct faculty in Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, and subsequently joined as a faculty at the Department of Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Vedantham has received numerous honors and awards. He received the Cancer Research Award from the Georgia Cancer Coalition and the Dr. Karen Mudry Award from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering Research (IBER). He contributed to the article that received the Farrington Daniels Award for the best paper in radiation dosimetry in Medical Physics Journal and the article that was selected as Editor’s Choice in Basic Science in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery.
Dr. Vedantham is a member of several professional organizations: The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He was elected as Fellow by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).