May 4, 2006
NIH director to visit campus May 8
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, will visit the UW on Monday, May 8, to see new radiology facilities at South Lake Union, meet with UW leaders, and give a public lecture on advances in radiology, his specialty.
His lecture also will be broadcast on UWTV four times: at 5 p.m. on Monday, May 22; at 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 25; and at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 27.
Zerhouni was chair of the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before he was named NIH director.
He will present the first Albert A. Moss Lecture in Imaging Sciences, sponsored by the Department of Radiology, at 5 p.m. Monday in Hogness Auditorium of the Health Sciences Center, speaking on the topic Medical Imaging: Innovation, Integration, Improvement. The lecture is open to everyone and will be followed by a reception in the Health Sciences Lobby.
He plans to address the tremendous impact biomedical imaging has had on medicine and biology over the past 30 years, and describe the current era of biomedical imaging, in which technologies are developing at a rapid pace, from molecular/cellular imaging to functional brain mapping.
He will emphasize the importance of these advances for our understanding of biological systems, detecting and controlling diseases, and translating research results to patient applications.
Zerhouni’s own research in imaging has led to advances in both computerized axial tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. He holds eight patents.
He will also address the unique position of the National Institutes of Health as a force for catalyzing new scientific knowledge and research methods for 21st century medicine.
The lecture will be Web cast live on UWTV.org and taped for airing on the UWTV channel at a later date. It will also be simulcast to the R&T Auditorium at Harborview, G-1026 at Children’s, in the Sze Conference Room at FHCRC, G-3100 at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and BB-108 at the VA Medical Center.
The lectureship has been established to honor Dr. Albert Moss, who was chair of the School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology from 1984 to 2002.
During that time, the number of faculty increased more than 400 percent and UW Radiology became nationally recognized for outstanding clinical programs, highly funded imaging research, and sought-after residency training in radiology.
For more information on the lecture or Zerhouni’s visit, contact Marianne Goldin at 206-616-4143 or mgoldin@u.washington.edu, or visit the Web site at http://www.rad.washington.edu/aamosslecture.html.
