Pendergrass Day

Guest Speaker Elias A. Zerhouni, MD

Elias A. Zerhouni, MD

Annual Pendergrass Day Symposium and Evening Dinner Dance

Each year, residents, fellows, post-doctoral students, graduate students, research associates and faculty attend the Department's Pendergrass Day Symposium followed by a graduation celebration in the evening.

At this year's Pendergrass events, we are honoring Wallace T. Miller, Sr, MD, whose many years of superlative teaching, clinical wisdom, exemplary mentorship, unparalleled work ethic, and dedication to the department continue to be an inspiration to his colleagues and trainees.

The 37th annual Pendergrass Symposium will take place on Friday, June 10, 2011 in Bodek Lounge of Houston Hall. Our keynote speaker delivering the Eugene P. Pendergrass Lecture is former NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, who currently is President of Global Research & Development for Sanofi-Aventis, as well as Senior Advisor to John Hopkins Medicine. His talk is entitled, "The Nexus of Imaging and Current Trends in Biomedical Research".

Guest Speaker Eric A. Hoffman, PhD

Eric A. Hoffman, PhD

Dr. Hoffman, Professor of Radiology, Medicine & Biomedical Engineering and Director for the Iowa Comprehensive Lung Imaging Center at the University of Iowa is our guest speaker delivering the 4th annual Charagundla Lecture. This lecture was more recently established in memory of Sridhar R. Charagundla, MD, PhD, a most promising faculty member, who passed suddenly at the young age of 34. Dr. Hoffman will discuss, "Structural and Functional Pulmonary CT Phenotypes".

In addition over 30 of our trainees submitted abstracts of their research projects for consideration. Seven have been selected to give short oral presentations during the morning schedule and several others selected to display posters of their work. The schedule for the symposium can be accessed below.

The Friday evening department graduation dinner dance will return to the Four Seasons Hotel. There we will recognize our graduating residents, fellows, graduating students and post-doctoral students who are finishing by the end of the year. During this event, we will also announce the recipients of this year's teaching awards:

  • Baum-Laufer Award for Excellence in Service to the Penn Radiology Residency
  • Excellence in Training by a Radiology Fellow
  • Excellence in Training by a Radiology Technologist
  • Wallace T. Miller Award for Excellence in Resident Teaching by a faculty member
  • Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award
    37th Annual Pendergrass Day Symposium Program (1MB)
    Slideshow of photos from Pendergrass Day 2010