Carina Mari Aparici
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Biography
Dr Mari Aparici is a Clinical Professor at Stanford University. She is a Nuclear Molecular Physician with residencies in both Europe (Barcelona) and US (Stanford), and with Molecular imaging fellowships from Stanford University. She is a physician-scientist in the development of Molecular Imaging. She has more than 20 years of clinical and research experience in the field, more than 10 years of a leadership position as Chief Nuclear Medicine at the San Francisco VAMC as part of her prior appointment as a UCSF faculty member, and now as Head of the Theranostics and Nuclear Therapies program at Stanford University. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals, has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals, has been PI of NIH and non-NIH grants and serves as a member of several to committees at her University and several Societies. as her expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. Her open and contextual evaluation model based on responsive constructivists creates new pathways for improving healthcare. She has built this model after years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration both in hospital and education institutions. The foundation is based on fourth generation evaluation (Guba& Lincoln, 1989) which is a methodology that utilizes the previous generations of evaluation: measurement, description and judgment. It allows for value-pluralism. This approach is responsive to all stakeholders and has a different way of focusing.
Abstract
Abstract : Real-time probe-guided intraprocedural biopsies in the world of Theranostics