2012 Symposium Committees

 

Below please find the confirmed Organizing Committee, Scientific Program Committee and Young Investigators Review Committee Rosters.  The Organizing Committee is responsible for overall definition of the program and will regularly consult with members of the Scientific Program Committee. The Scientific Program Committee includes representatives from each of the top institutions in Focused Ultrasound in the world, based on research and clinical activity.

2012 Symposium Organizing Committee

Arik Hananel, M.D., M.B.A.
Scientific and Medical Director
Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation
Charlottesville, Virginia

Neal F. Kassell, M.D.
Chairman, Board of Directors, FUS Foundation
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

 

2012 Symposium Scientific Program Committee

Jean-Francois Aubry, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, CNRS
Laboratoire Odne et Acoustique
French Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
Institut Langevin
Paris, France

Joo Ha Hwang, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 

 

Dennis Parker, Ph.D.
Director, Utah Center for Advanced Imaging
Professor, Department of Radiology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 


Kim Butts Pauly, Ph.D. 
Professor of Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Kullervo Hynynen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Senior Scientist and Director of Imaging Research
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, Canada

Richard Price, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Director, UVA FUS Center
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Matthew Dreher, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Interventional Radiology Research Laboratory
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Young-sun Kim, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science
Samsung Medical Center
Seoul, South Korea

Gail ter Haar, Ph.D. (Chair)
Reader in Therapy ultrasound
Joint Department of Physics
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Surrey, UK
Visiting Professor in Ultrasound Surgery, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D.
Program Director, Image Guided Interventions Branch, Cancer Imaging Program
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Nathan McDannold, Ph.D.
Research Director, Focused Ultrasound Laboratory
Associate Professor of Radiology
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School 
Boston, Massachusetts

Arik Hananel, M.D., M.B.A.
Scientific and Medical Director
Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation
Charlottesville, Virginia

Chrit Moonen, Ph.D. 
Research Director, CNRS
Director, Laboratory for Molecular and Functional Imaging
University of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France