Baris Turkbey, MD, and Sadhna Verma, MD, FSAR presented “Panel Discussion Part Two: PROSTATE IMAGING” during the 2023 Frontiers in Oncologic Prostate Care and Ablative Local Therapy symposium on November 10, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.
How to cite: Turkbey, Baris; Verma, Sadhna. “Panel Discussion Part Two: PROSTATE IMAGING.” November, 2023. Accessed Jan 2025. https://grandroundsinurology.com/panel-discussion-part-two-prostate-imaging/
Panel Discussion Part Two: PROSTATE IMAGING – Summary
Baris Turkbey, MD, and Sadhna Verma, MD, FSAR
Frontiers in Oncologic Prostate Care and Ablative Local Therapy (FOCAL) is an outstanding program on prostate imaging, transperineal interventions, and ablative treatments for prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia. Bringing together community-based, academic, and industry partners, FOCAL offers lectures by world-renowned faculty and hands-on training workshops on in-office transperineal interventions, fusion-guided prostate ablation and state-of-the-art BPH management with novel technologies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Turkbey obtained his medical degree from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey in 2003. He completed his residency in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Hacettepe University. He joined Molecular Imaging Branch (MIB), National Cancer Institute, NIH in 2007. His main research areas are imaging of prostate cancer (multiparametric MRI, PET CT), image guided biopsy and treatment techniques (focal therapy, surgery and radiation therapy) for prostate cancer and artificial intelligence. Dr. Turkbey is a member of Prostate Imaging Reporting & Data System (PI-RADS) Steering Committee. He is the Head of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging section in MIB and the Artificial Intelligence Resource (external link) in MIB.
Sadhna Verma, MD, FSAR, is a Professor of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Urology at University of Cincinnati Medical Center. She is also the Director of Prostate Imaging Program, Associate Chair of Quality and Performance Improvement at the Prostate Cancer Midwest Center of Excellence, as well as the Director Prostate Cancer Imaging Program at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Verma completed a diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Cincinnati and a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging from the Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Dr. Verma’s clinical expertise and current clinical research interests are in genitourinary MR imaging. She has published extensively and delivered numerous invited lectures on the topic of prostate MRI and MR-Guided Interventional Procedures.
