On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, Dr. Robert Bakos, the Rochester neurosurgeon, presented the life, music and death of the famous composer Felix Mendelson (1809-47) and his sister Fanny at an evening meeting at the Eastman School of Music. The composer Felix Mendelson is best known as the composer of "Wedding March". Dr. Bakos started, his well-attended lecture, dramatically by playing this piece and amusing the audience by showing his own wedding pictures from thirty-five years ago. The lecture was about Mendelson’s music, but had a medical undertone ending up with a very intriguing analysis of Mendelson medical condition that eventually ended his life.
    This was a part of the Dr. Bakos lecture series DGC (Dead German Composers) & how they got that way….

September 26, 2003: Leena M. Ketonen, MD, PhD has been appointed Director of Pediatric Neuroimaging. This is the first time the University of Rochester has had a dedicated Chief of Pediatric Neuroimaging and is a reflection of the growing importance of pediatric medicine at our institution and the increasing importance of imaging for pediatric patients with neurologic diseases.
   Dr. Ketonen was recruited from Massachusetts General Hospital to be the chief of pediatric neuroimaging at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Ketonen is neuroradiologist with long experience and special interest in pediatric neuroimaging.

   With the establishment of the Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong, the University of Rochester has further established its stature as the center for pediatric medicine in Upstate New York. Pediatric neuroimaging is an essential portion of the diagnosis and treatment of many pediatric patients ranging from developmental disturbances, seizures, metabolic disease, trauma and neoplastic disease of the brain and spine.
   We are fortunate to have successfully recruited Dr. Ketonen to Rochester to lead this difficult area.
   Pediatric neuroimaging is primarily done with MR technique. This involves traditional MR imaging but newer techniques such as spectroscopy, perfusion studies and functional evaluations are now done on a routine base for many pediatric patients with neurologic disease.
   Dr. Ketonen will work closely with pediatricians, pediatric neurologist, pediatric neurosurgeons, pediatric oncologists and other physicians involved in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric patients with neurologic diseases.

• The entire Division of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at the same time at the same place

Back row from left to right: Toshio Moritani, MD, PhD, Jeevak Almast, MD, Ravinder Sidhu, MD, Ramon De Guzman, MD, Belinda Delibero, Lawrence Buadu, MD, PhD, Cynthia Zink, RPA-C, Akio Hiwatashi, MD, Tanya Geist, RPA-C, Francisco Garcia-Morales, MD. Front row from left to right: Yuji Numaguchi, MD, PhD, Leena Ketonen, MD, PhD, Per-Lennart Westesson, MD, PhD, DDS, Henry Wang, MD, PhD, and Sven Ekholm, MD, PhD.

Dr. Per-Lennart Westesson gave a lecture on "Temporomandibular Joint Internal Derangement: Diagnosis with Advanced Imaging Techniques" at the Spanish Oral and Maxillofacial/TMJ Surgery Conference. The conference took place in Merida, Spain, a beautiful area in southwest Spain. The adjacent picture shows the invited speakers and the organizers during a cultural activity. The speakers are standing in the restored Romal Amfi Theatre in the center of Merida, Spain. This theatre was once used for the Romal Theatre and at one time the scene was populated not by middle age, overweight physicians but instead young beautiful dancing women entertaining the Romal upper class.