Pendergrass Day Program

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7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast 

8:00 AM

Welcome
Terence Gade, MD, PhD
Deputy Vice-Chair for Research
Co-Director, Penn Image-Guided Interventions (PIGI) Laboratory
Matthew J. Wilson Professor of Research Radiology II

“Non-Invasive Assessment of Kidney Injury Severity Using Metabolic Imaging Leveraging Hyperpolarized C13 Technology”
Alexander Zavriyev, MS | Basic Science Trainee

“Tumor Treating Fields in Glioblastoma: Anatomical vs Metabolic Imaging Guided Targeting and Impact on Dosimetry Profiles”
Archith Rajan, PhD | Clinical Trainee

“Cortical Laminar Microstructure in Children Using Multi-Shell Diffusion MRI with Isotropic Submillimeter Resolution”
Ziqin Zhang, MS | Basic Science Trainee

"Medial Temporal Lobe Tau-Neurodegeneration Mismatch from MRI and Plasma Biomarkers”
Xueying Lyu, PhD | Basic Science Trainee

Session I: Plenary (Cont.)
Moderator: Ragini Verma, PhD

“Baseline Diffusion MRI Improves Identification of Long-Term Cognitive Trajectories in Parkinson’s Disease Beyond DaTscan”
Livia Maria de Aguiar Rodrigues, PhD | Basic Science Trainee

“Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Accelerated Brain Ageing and Effects of Antihyperglycemic Interventions: Evidence from the UK Biobank and Two Randomized Clinical Trials”
Filippos Anagnostakis, MD | Clinical Trainee

“Choline Kinase–Targeted NIR-II Imaging Enables High-Contrast Real-Time Tumor Delineation”
Ritesh Isuri, BS | Basic Science Trainee

"Automated Multi Planar Reconstruction of the Thyroid Gland from Ultrasound Cine Clips”
Lev Barinov, MD, PhD | Clinical Trainee

"Cortical and Subcortical Structure-Function Imaging Mismatch Reflects α-Synuclein SAA in Lewy Body Diseases”
Michael Duong, MD, PhD | Clinical Trainee

“Multiparametric Hyperpolarized-13C-MRI for Sensitive Assessment of Early-Stage Liver Disease”
Bukola Adebesin, BS | Basic Science Trainee

“Dextran-Coated Holmium Oxide Nanoparticles: A Contrast Agent for Imaging IBD with Photon Counting CT”
Kathleen Villasenor | Basic Science Trainee

“Fully Automatic Reconstruction of Bicuspid and Trileaflet Aortic Valves in 4D Transesophageal Echocardiography Improves Pre-Operative Valve Interpretation”
Silvani Amin, BA | Basic Science Trainee

“Follow Your Heart: Landmark-Guided Transducer Pose Scoring for Point-of-Care Echocardiography”
Zaiyang (Aaron) Guo, B.Eng | Basic Science Trainee

“Longitudinal Multimodal MRI–PET Imaging of Molecular Drivers of Left Ventricular Remodeling”
Marina Awad, BS | Basic Science Trainee

“GNorm: Synthesizing Healthy Brains from Pathological MRI to Detect and Quantify Anomalies”
Alfredo Lucas, PhD | Clinical Trainee

“Oral 18F-FTHA with Whole Body Dynamic PET/CT Delineates Thoracic Duct Anatomy and Lymphatic Flow Kinetics in Humans”
Robert Romano, MD, MPH | Clinical Trainee

"Optic Nerve Sheath Changes in a Pediatric Porcine Model of Acute Hydrocephalus”
Katherine Luo, MD, PhD | Clinical Trainee

"Evaluating Large Language Model Performance on Multimodal Neuroradiologic Data”
Zoe Barinaga, BS, MSc | Clinical Trainee

“Ultrasound Radiomics Reveals Altered Brain Development Trajectories in HIV-Exposed Uninfected Infants in Botswana”
Eva Maria Escavy Zamora, MD | Basic Science Trainee

“Connection in an Era of Technological Disruption”
Janie Lee, MD, MSc
Professor of Radiology
University of Washington School of Medicine & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center