Utilization of RF/Microwaves in Medicine
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Location: Room 204B
Time: 12:00-14:00
Organizers: Usmah Kawoos, (Henry M Jackson Foundation), Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD; Anilchandra Attaluri, School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University – Middletown, PA; Arye Rosen, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
Abstract: Over the past three decades, collaboration between physicians and engineers has increased dramatically, to the benefit of our society. Biomedical engineering departments, the majority of which found in engineering schools and some within medical schools, offer seemingly unlimited opportunities and continue to attract a large number of students. To benefit from the merits of interdisciplinary cooperation and facilitate the transfer of technology to the market, existing large corporations, start-up medical companies, and research funding agencies now demand strong collaboration between engineers and physicians. With this in mind, IMS 2018 has made the subject of RF/microwaves in Medicine a major theme of the conference. The physicians on this panel will discuss the use of RF/microwaves in their respective fields. Topics ranging from microwave hyperthermia therapy for reoccurrences of breast cancer, advances in RF renal denervation, to back pain management using RF, will be highlighted!
Panelists:
- Review and advances in RF renal denervation
- Nicholas Ruggiero, M.D, Cardiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Microwave Hyperthermia therapy for Reoccurrences of Breast Cancer
- Mark Hurwitz, M.D, Radiation Oncology (Thermal oncology), Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Advances in MRI: Overview of MRI physics and technology, focused on clinical use and directed towards engineers
- Donald Mitchell, M.D.. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Back Pain Management using RF
- Eugene Viscusi, M.D., Anesthesiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- RF Ablation in the treatment of Metastatic Spinal Tumors
- Francis Kralick, D.O., Neurological Surgery, Shore Medical Center, Brigantine, NJ
- RF treatment of bone tumors
- Hamid RS Hosseinzadeh, M.D., Orthopedic Surgery, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ
- Prolieve®Transurethral Microwave Thermodilatation Therapy for BPH
- William Jow, M.D., Medifocus Inc., Columbia, MD
- Advances in RF/microwave in cardiac ablation
- Daniel Frisch, M.D., Cardiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Utilization of RF in pain management
- Andrew Ng, M.D., Anesthesiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
- Advances in microwave ablation of liver cancer.
- Ernest Rosato, M.D., Oncology Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
