2025 Hampton/Abrams Symposium

March 28, 2025

The Hampton/Abrams Symposium is designed to educate practicing radiologists and radiology trainees about advancements in the field of medicine and imaging. Faculty of Harvard Medical School will give the majority of lectures. Topics selected seek to educate attendees on recent advances in imaging technology. The title for this year's course theme is “Ultra-High Field (UHF) and Ultra High-Performance (UHP) MRI” and seeks to present new technologies being developed and their clinical applications. All speakers are well known in their respective fields and have been speakers at recent national and international radiology conferences.

The course is designed to improve learner knowledge so that participating radiologists can apply new strategies in their clinical practice, thereby improving performance in practice.  This year’s theme will allow learners to acquire knowledge in regard to advances in MRI.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for Radiologists, trainees & other medical staff within the Mass General Brigham system.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate limitations of current MRI.
  2. Specify technological advances for Ultra-High Field (UHF) and Ultra High-Performance (UHP) MRI.
  3. Illustrate the clinical applications of Ultra-High Field (UHF) and Ultra High-Performance (UHP) MRI.

Additional Information

Provided by: 

Mass General Brigham Department of Radiology & Mass General Brigham

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 4.00 Participation
Course opens: 
01/16/2025
Course expires: 
04/28/2025
Event starts: 
03/28/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
03/28/2025 - 4:00pm EDT
Cost:
$0.00
12:20 PMIntroduction of Distinguished Alumnae James Brink, MD
12:25Will AI Make Precision Medicine a Reality? Linda Moy, MD
1:00Q & A
1:10Introduction to Symposium Raul Uppot, MD
1:15

Introduction to MGH Rapid Fire Talks (2 Minutes Each) | Susie Huang, MD, PhD

  • Studying Brain Microstructure in Normal Aging using Neurite Exchange Imaging (NEXI) at 500 mT/m on Connectome 2.0 | Kwok Shing Chan, PhD
  • Free-Water-Eliminated (FWE)-SANDI to Improve the Accuracy of In Vivo Apparent Soma & Neurite Imaging using High-Gradient Diffusion MRI | Hansol Lee, PhD
  • Leveraging Advances in MRI Technology to Characterize Cerebrovascular Physiology | Jan Kufer, MD
  • Mitigating Inhomogeneity in High-Field MRI Excitations: the Ritz Adjoint Method for Patient-Specific Optimization | John Drago
  • Tailored Encoding & Reconstruction for Mesoscale MRI | Shohei Fujita, MD, PhD
  • Age-Related Alterations in Tissue Microstructure | Yixin Ma, PhD
1:29AV Transition
1:31

Introduction to BWH Rapid Fire Talks (2 Minutes Each) | Daniel C. Paech, MD, PhD

  • Exploring the Origins of the Amide Proton Transfer weighted Contrast in the Human Brain Using an Interpretable Machine Learning Model | Florian Kroh, PhD
  • Rotating-view super-resolution (ROVER)-MRI reconstruction using tailored Implicit Neural Network | Jun Lyu, PhD
  • Unlocking the Potential of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Opportunities and Challenges | Katherine Breedlove, PhD
  • 7T MRI in Multiple Sclerosis at BWH: An Overview of Clinical and Research Scanning | Jon Zurawski, MD
  • Symptom-Specific Optimal Deep Brain Stimulation Sites in Parkinson’s Disease | Garance Meyer, PhD
  • Advancing Response Assessment in Glioblastoma: Amide Proton Transfer-Weighed Imaging for Early Detection of True Progression Post-Radiochemotherapy | Thomas Zeyen, MD
1:45Break
2:00

Introduction to BWH Faculty Speakers (10 Minutes Each) | Daniel C. Paech, MD, PhD

  • New Approaches for Investigating the Brain’s Connections | Lauren J. O’Donnell, PhD
  • Clinical Applications of 7T MR Spectroscopy | Alexander P. Lin, PhD
  • Clinical Applications of Metabolic MR Imaging at 7T | Daniel C. Paech, MD, PhD
  • 7T MRI in a Multi-Tier High-Value Epilepsy Imaging Strategy: Current Role, Challenges & Potential | Geoff Young, MD
2:45AV Transition
2:47

Introduction to MGH Faculty Speakers (10 Minutes Each) | Susie Huang, MD, PhD

  • Methodological Developments for High Spatial & Temporal Resolution fMRI | Anna Blazejewska, PhD
  • Head Motion Correction for Ultra-High-Resolution Brain MRI at 7T | Robert Frost, PhD
  • Microstructure Imaging using High-Gradient Performance Diffusion MRI | Hong-Hsi Lee, MD, PhD
  • Correction for B1+ Effects at 7 Tesla | Bastien Guerin, PhD
  • Focus on the Locus Coeruleus to Detect Pre-Clinical Alzheimer’s Disease | Heidi Jacobs, PhD
  • Advanced MRI Acquisition on 7T & Connectome 2.0 | Zijing Dong, PhD
3:50Panel Discussion All Speakers
4:00 PMAdjournment

Raul N. Uppot, MD – Course Director
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director, Interventional Radiology Research – Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, ARVR Lab – Massachusetts General Hospital

Anna Blazejewska, PhD
Assistant Professor, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Katherine Breedlove, PhD
Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

James Brink, MD
Radiologist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital
Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Kwok Shing Chan, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Zijing Dong, PhD
Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School

John Drago
PhD Student, MIT EECS & Harvard Medical School

Robert Frost, PhD
Assistant Professor, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging – Laboratory of Computational Neuroimaging

Shohei Fujita, MD, PhD
Research Fellow, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Bastien Guerin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging – Magnetic Resonance Physics & Instrumentation Group (MR-PIG)

Susie Huang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging – Magnetic Resonance Physics & Instrumentation Group (MR-PIG) & Connectome 2.0

Heidi Jacobs, PhD
Associate Professor, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Florian Kroh, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Jan Kufer, MD
Research Fellow, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Hansol Lee, PhD
Research Fellow in Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Hong-Hsi Lee, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging – Connectome 2.0 Lab

Alexander P. Lin, PhD
Director, Center for Clinical Spectroscopy – Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Jun Lyu, PhD
Visiting Fellow in Psychiatry, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Yixin Ma, PhD
Investigator & Instructor, Mass General Research Institute – Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine
Instructor in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Garance Meyer, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Linda Moy, MD
Radiologist, NYU Langone Health
Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine – Department of Radiology
New York, NY

Lauren J. O’Donnell, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Affiliated Faculty, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology (HST)

Daniel C. Paech, MD, PhD
Attending Neuroradiologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Medical Director, Brigham Radiology Imaging Core
Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Geoff Young, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neuroradiologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Thomas Zeyen, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Jon Zurawski, MD
Assistant Neurologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 4.00 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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