2nd Annual Prostate Cancer Symposium and Inaugural World Congress of Urologic Oncology

The Department of Urology at the Mount Sinai Health System is hosting its 2nd Annual International Prostate Cancer Symposium and Inaugural World Congress in collaboration with Society of Urologic Robotic Surgeons and Endourological Society. More than 110 renowned faculty from around the world will participate in Live 3D surgical demonstrations, including prostate, kidney and bladder and reconstruction as well as Inaugural Symposiums: Immunotherapy of Prostate Cancer and GU Cancers and World Consortium on Advanced Prostate Cancer. 

Members of the new Education Committee of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Commission on Patient- and Family-Centered Care are developing educational resources and tools to encourage radiology professionals to lead patient engagement and improve patient experience and satisfaction.

Learn how 3-D printing empowers medical device manufacturer Medtronic to bring products to market faster, develop better therapies and engage in earlier clinical validation. With functionally accurate, 3-D printed prototypes, Medtronic can complete more design revisions in less time, empower physician feedback through an improved validation process, and gather clinically relevant feedback to accelerate time to market. In this webinar, see how Stratasys technologies enable Medtronic to save time and reduce cost, while also optimizing product performance.  

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Annual Conference on Quality and Safety, scheduled for Oct. 13-14 in Boston, will help radiology practices add value through cost-effective service quality improvement.

Virtual Phantoms Inc. announced the release of VirtualDoseIR, a tool for assessing organ dose from interventional radiology (IR) procedures. Like its VirtualDose CT product for computed tomography, VirtualDoseIR combines a family of anatomically realistic human phantoms, advanced Monte Carlo simulations, and an easy-to-use web interface to provide realistic calculations of dose to a diverse patient population.

Xavier University has launched the Xavier Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI), a pioneering effort to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence to improve healthcare. The Center’s first major initiative will be the AI Summit on Aug. 24-25 on Xavier’s campus in Cincinnati. Xavier will lead representatives from the medical device and pharmaceutical industries and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to further develop artificial intelligence to promote and protect patient health.

August 7, 2017 — Profound Medical Corp. recently announced that all closing conditions have been satisfied and it has completed the acquisition of Philips’ Sonalleve magnetic resonance-high-intensity focused ultrasound (MR-HIFU) business.

August 7, 2017 — ViewRay Inc. announced that several presentations of early clinical experience with its MRIdian Linac technology were made at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), July 30-Aug. 2 in Denver. MRIdian Linac is the world’s only U.S.

To better prepare its ultrasound students to compete and thrive in the evolving healthcare environment, Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) partnered with Mindray North America to update department and education capabilities with 25 new Mindray DC-8 Exp high-performance ultrasound systems.

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