Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Friday, November 30, 2007
Optical Imaging for Medicine and Biology: Applications in Cancer Detection
8:00AM-4:00PM, Cocktail Hour 4:00-5:00PM
The Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Host:
Professor Jerome Mertz, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University
College of Engineering
44 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Short Biography of Karen H. Antman, M.D.

Karen H. Antman, M.D is Provost of the Medical Campus and Dean of the Boston University School of Medicine on May 1, 2005. She was previously the Deputy Director of Translational and Clinical Sciences at the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Antman received her M.D. from Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons. She joined the Harvard Medical School faculty in 1979 and served as the Clinical Director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Solid Tumor Autologous Marrow Program and of the sarcoma and mesothelioma clinical research and treatment programs until July of 1993, when she returned to Columbia University. There she was the Wu Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Medical Oncology, Columbia University, from 1993 to 2003, and the Director of Columbia’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Her research accomplishments include the development of now standard regimens for the treatment of sarcomas and mesotheliomas. She has also developed regimens for breast cancer and supportive care of patients receiving chemotherapy including pharmacology, growth factors and mobilization of peripheral blood derived stem cells for blood and marrow transplant.

She has published reviews and editorials on medical policy and the impact of research funding and managed care on American clinical research. She has considerable past and present grant support and is an author on more than 160 peer reviewed articles, and more than 100 chapters and reviews. She has edited 2 text books (Asbestos Related Malignancies and High Dose Chemotherapy).

She has lectured to lay audiences and has written articles in Vogue and in Readers Digest on cancer prevention and screening.

She has served as President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 1994-19955, the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplant in 1996-1997, and the American Association for Cancer Research in 2003-2004. She has served on many Federal and foundation boards and committees.

Her husband is a cardiologist. Their daughter and son graduated from Harvard Medical School and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons respectively and are currently interns at UCSF (pediatric neurology) and University of Michigan (Emergency Medicine).

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