Invited speakers
Meet our invited speakers who will be presenting at the 29th European symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging
![Michael Canney](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Michael-Canney.png)
Michael Canney
Chief Scientific Officer
Carthera
Title lecture: The development of a clinical implantable ultrasound system for disrupting the blood-brain barrier
![Christy Holland](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Christy-Holland-500x500-1.jpg)
Christy Holland
Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease and Biomedical Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Title lecture: Ultrasound image-guided catheter-directed therapy to treat peripheral arterial disease
![Beat Kaufmann](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Beat-KaufmannV2.png)
Beat Kaufmann
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Research group leader Department of Biomedicine
University Hospital Basel
Title lecture: Contrast enhanced ultrasound molecular imaging for assessment of vascular inflammation in atherosclerosis
![Elisa Konofagou](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Elisa-Konofagou.png)
Elisa E. Konofagou
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Director of the Ultrasound and Elasticity Imaging Laboratory at Columbia University
Columbia University
Title lecture: Simultaneous imaging and monitoring of Immunomodulation and drug delivery using focused ultrasound and microbubbles towards the treatment of neurodegenerative disease and brain tumors
![Outi Supponen](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Outi-Supponen.png)
Outi Supponen
Assistant Professor, Institute of Fluid Dynamics
ETH Zurich
Title lecture: Microbubble jetting from low-amplitude ultrasound driving
![Pintong Huang](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pintong-Huang-400x400-2.png)
Pintong Huang
Professor and Director of Ultrasound Department in The Second Affiliated Hospital
Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Title lecture: Update on CEUS for carotid artery
![Alfred Yu](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Alfred-Yu1.png)
Alfred Yu
Professor
Laboratory on Innovative Technology in Medical UltraSound (LITMUS)
University of Waterloo
Title lecture: tba
![Meaghan O’Reilly](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/OReilly-400x400-1.png)
Meaghan O’Reilly
Associate Professor of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto
Title lecture: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Grey and White Matter
![Guillaume Lajoinie](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Guillaume-Lajoinie.png)
Guillaume Lajoinie
Assistant professor
Physics Of Fluids Group
University of Twente
Title lecture: A physically realistic contrast-enhanced ultrasound simulator
![Flordeliza Villanueva](https://echocontrast.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Villanueva.png)
Flordeliza Villanueva
PhD, MD, Professor
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Title lecture: Adverse post-infarct cardiac remodeling is attenuated by ultrasound targeted microbubble cavitation-mediated delivery of antimiR-92a