2012 MFI Symposium Program - University of Ottawa Heart Institute

MOLECULAR FUNCTION & IMAGING SYMPOSIUM BRINGING
CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING & THERAPY TO LIFE
JUNE 21 ST & 22 ND , 2012. LORD ELGIN HOTEL, OTTAWA
MARCUS SCHWAIGER, MD, PHD
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
KEYNOTE LECTURE: TRANSLATIONAL IMAGING OF
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Translational imaging of clinical cardiovascular disease
Dr. Schwaiger earned his MD from Kilinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universitat Munchen,
Germany. He then pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship in the departments of Physiology and
Cardiology at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Dr. Schwaiger successfully completed his
Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine fellowships at UCLA School of Medicine. Since then, he has had
numerous professional appointments, most recently as Dean of the School of Medicine and Director
of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany.
Dr. Schwaiger’s research expertise is the application of multimodal imaging, such as Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Computed Tomography (CT),
and Single Photon Emission Tomography (SPECT), to visualize and quantify biological processes.
His research also focuses on the use of PET in cardiology and oncology to monitor various therapies.
Aside from Cardiology, Dr. Schwaiger has special interest in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid
endocrine and neuro-endocrine diseases in the Nuclear Medicine department.
Dr. Schwaiger is very well published with more than 687 refereed publications; he is a Member and
Chairman of DFG study section “Medizintechnik”, and is a Member of DFG study section “3.
Sektion Herzkreislaufsystem”. In 2005, he was awarded an Unrestricted grant award for
cardiovascular research from the BMS Foundation, Princeton, USA.
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