THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED - Monitoring Iron Overload in Transfusional Siderosis

The Department of Medical Imaging is pleased to have John Wood, MD, PhD, presenting at our Grand Rounds on Wednesday, June 22nd, in COM, Room 2117, at 12:00 pm. Dr. Wood is the director of cardiovascular MRI at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles/USC Keck School of Medicine. He specializes in the MRI assessment of congenital heart disease as well as the noninvasive assessment of iron burden by MRI.                                                                                                             

Dr. Wood has been studying the cardiovascular consequences of hemoglobinopathies for almost a decade. He is one of the pioneer’s of MRI-based cardiac and liver iron measurements but is also studying oral chelation strategies in animals and humans. He was the principal investigator for the NIH-sponsored Early Detection of Iron Cardiomyopathy Trial whose goal is to identify earlier markers of cardiac dysfunction. Dr. Wood also has funded projects examining pancreatic and pituitary iron burden by MRI and their functional correlates. Dr. Wood has more recently been studying the role of iron overload and other factors in sickle cell peripheral and cerebral vasculopathy, exploring the links between abnormal red cell mechanics and vascular dynamics in the hemoglobinopathies.