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1. Congratulations to Dr. Anh Le, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Mining an ePR System Using A Treatment Plan Navigator for Radiation Toxicity to Evaluate Proton Therapy Treatment Protocol for Prostate Cancer” this April, and has since obtained her doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering. We would like to congratulate and commend her for her hard work and wish her well in her future careers.

2. IPILab has moved to our new location earlier this June. We are now located in Kerkhoff Hall on University Park Campus, closer to other research facilities in Department of Biomedical Engineering. We are very excited about new research possibilities, including collaborations with other engineering laboratories, with our move, and we will also continue our close relationships with our existing and new research collaborators at the Health Science Campus. Our official address is:

Annenberg Research Park
734 West Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-8300
Wk: 213.743.2520
Fx: 213.743.2962

Please stay tuned for our upcoming updates regarding our projects, our RSNA 2010 submissions, and other news.

We have also completed and distributed our 2010 Annual Report during the SPIE conference. We also have made our past annual reports (from 2004 to 2010) available to download at http://www.ipilab.org/AnnualReport. Printed books are also available to pick up at our office.

Here are some updates from the IPILab:

1. Congratulations to Ms Anh Le and Mr. Jasper Lee for passing their respective qualifying exams for the PhD program. They are expected to graduate with Biomedical Engineering PhD degrees later this year.

2. IPILab welcomes back Dr. James Fernandez as a post-doctoral T32 trainee for the year of 2009-2010. His projects include Computer-aided diagnosis of Acute Intracranial Hemorrhage and a electronic patient record for Multiple Sclerosis patients.

3. We have successfully showcased our projects and exhibits this past RSNA conference in November-December 2009. If you had a chance to visit our exhibits and posters, thank you for your interests. You can view our RSNA brochure by clicking here.

4. We will be attending this year’s SPIE Medical Imaging Conference ( http://spie.org/x12166.xml) in San Diego, CA from February 13th to 18th, 2010. The program is available to download from SPIE’s website. This year IPILab will have 10 oral presentations and 1 poster presentation, as well as 2 oral presentations from our collaborators. The complete list of our topics will be made available shortly.

In addition, we have one paper poster accepted to ASTRO in Chicago as well. More information regarding our abstracts in ASTRO and RSNA will come as we approaches closer to November.

We hope to see you at RSNA this year, and you are always welcome to vist us at our posters and exhibits.

IPILab congratulates Ms. Le’s hard work and her success into publishing the article. You can access a PDF version of the article here (Must have a Springerlink account to download).

In addition, our Dr. Mark Haney has just been accepted to the preliminary surgery residency program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, beginning his new career as a surgeon.

Every member here at IPILab hereby offers our most sincere congratulations to Dr. Documet and Dr. Haney, and we wish for nothing but success in their respective career paths.