C2ST Speakeasy: “Biomedical Imaging and Personalized Medicine” with Dr. Daniel Procissi

April 7, 2015

Geek Bar Beta
1941 West North Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA

Program Series:
Health and Wellness

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How far are we technologically from having  imaging  platforms such as the ones depicted in science fiction TV shows and movies? Will Doctors be able to use advanced imaging to get an immediate snapshot of our body and assess our physical condition and therapeutic requirements in real time? In the last decade the public has been inundated with words like “personalized” and “individualized” approaches for treating disease. The idea that “one size does not fit all” has gained traction and the message has consistently been that medical professionals are now able to use new genetic, biological and technological tools to cater treatments on a person-by-person basis. Medical imaging technology plays a significant and important role for this “personalized medicine” pursuit. We will briefly discuss how imaging influenced  modern medicine historically, how it will contribute to its future and what are the challenges to get there.

Event Details

Registration is not required, but strongly recommended. Please click the following link to register for this program: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/c2st-speakeasy-at-geek-bar-chicagos-science-tuesday-tickets-16253585913

C2ST Speakeasy will be held on the first Tuesday of each month at Geek Bar Chicago for the foreseeable future.

Speaker

Daniel Procissi

Daniel Procissi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and is the Director of Preclinical Imaging division of the Center for Translational Imaging). He collaborates across the University on biomedical projects involving research in a wide variety of areas such as cardiology, oncology and neurology and novel nanotherapeutics. His particular research interest focuses on identifying and developing new methods to detect and follow biological processes underlying diseases using advanced imaging technologies such as MRI, PET, CT and Optical methods. Before his current position, Dr. Procissi was a Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and then a research scientist at the Caltech Brain Imaging Center where he joined a multidisciplinary effort to develop new technology that allows real time imaging using combined and simultaneous PET and MRI. He holds a PhD in experimental physics that he received at the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory in Iowa.