GMED Community For Advising and Expertise

GMED Community For Advising and Expertise

Dr. Michael W. Gramlich Ph.D.
Expertise: Fluorescence Microscopy, Computational Modeling, Molecular neuroscience
Assistant Professor Physics Department Auburn University
 My lab is interested in the molecular mechanics of cognition in normal and disease states. My lab is currently focused on the how molecular changes in the function of synapses affect memory formation in normal neurons and also Alzheimer’s Disease.
Environment: Academic
Contact Information: Mwg0016@auburn.edu

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Dr. Jennifer Pursely Ph.D., DABR
 Expertise: Radiation Therapy, Image Analysis
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology Mass General Brigham
 I’m a clinical physicist in Radiation Oncology with a focus on translating new technology into clinical use. My current focus is on implementing automation and online adaptive radiation therapy.
Environment: Clinical/Academic
Contact Information: jpursley@mgh.harvard.edu

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Dr. Robert Jeraj Ph.D., FAAPM, FAPS, FInstP
 Expertise: Advanced Image Analysis, Neurodegenerative Disease
Professor of Medical Physics, Human Oncology, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering Director, Translational Imaging
Research Program Director, Wisconsin Oncology Network of Imaging eXcellence (WONIX) University of Wisconsin
 My work focuses on development of advanced analytic methods of medical imaging data to uncover complexity of disease heterogeneity and related treatment resistance and enable development of methodologies to optimize clinical decision making.
Environment: Academic
Contact Information: rjeraj@wisc.edu

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Richard G. Spencer M.D., Ph.D.
 Expertise: MRI, Neurodegenerative Disease
Chief, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Section NIH/National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program
 My work focuses on magnetic resonance imaging, and ranges from pre-clinical studies, including animal models of musculoskeletal and cerebrovascular disease, to human studies of brain, cartilage, and muscle. Our expertise now extends to inverse problems and machine learning.
Environment: National Labs
Contact Information: spencer@helix.nih.gov

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Wojtek Zbijewski Ph.D.
 Expertise: 
Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical The QuantIS Laboratory Engineering Carnegie Center for Surgical Innovation Johns Hopkins University
My research aims to translate the latest advances in imaging technology – particularly in x-ray-based modalities – into new biomarkers for clinical applications that lack reliable quantitation. Among the major themes pursued by my laboratory are: quantitative imaging using photon-counting and dual-energy CT and cone-beam CT (CBCT), advanced image formation and artifact correction algorithms in CT and CBCT, mechanistic modeling of how radiomic CT biomarkers emerge from tissue microstructure mediated by the physics of CT imaging chain, novel CT and CBCT technologies for
ultra-high resolution imaging (in particular in assessment of bone health), and automated analytics for extraction of quantitative biomarkers from x-ray radiography and CT images.
Environment: Academic
Contact Information: wzbijewski@jhu.edu

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Alexey Tonyushkin Ph.D.
 Expertise:
Assistant Professor Department of Physics Oakland University
 Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a new tomographic imaging modality that visualizes magnetic nanoparticles’ distribution with an extraordinary sensitivity providing high spatial and temporal resolutions that are required in many modern medical applications. MPI could address clinical, and research needs for safe diagnostic and therapeutic applications such as cancer screening, cell tracking, drug delivery, and angiography. In my work, I am developing practical MPI scanner configurations, which utilize so-called single-sided geometry of the hardware. Such MPI scanner may potentially provide a new self-contained tool for clinical applications such as breast cancer screening, which is more comfortable, fast, sensitive, and relatively inexpensive.
Environment: Academic
Contact Information: Tonyushkin@oakland.edu

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Lloyd Lumata Ph.D.
 Expertise: NMR, MRI, dynamic nuclear polarization, hyperpolarization, cancer metabolism
Associate Professor Physics Department University of Texas at Dallas
 My lab is interested in probing the aberrant biochemical pathways in cancer in real-time using dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) which can amplify NMR and MRI signals by >10,000-fold. In addition, my research group is also focused on the development and improvement of the DNP instrumentation as well as optimizing the hyperpolarized signals of various MRI-based biosensors.
Environment: Academic
Contact Information: lloyd.lumata@utdallas.edu

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Lijun Ma PhD, FAAPM
 Expertise:
Professor & Chief of Medical Physics USC Radiation Oncology Keck School of Medicine USC Los Angeles, CA
I am a long-time passionate medical device and digital health researcher and an inventor with federal and private sector funded researches & patents licensed by companies such as Siemens, Varian, Elekta and others.
Environment: Environment: Clinical/Academic
Contact Information: lijun.ma@med.usc.edu

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Michael A. Boss, Ph.D. Expertise: CT, PET, SPECT, and mammography
Director, Imaging Core Laboratory American College of Radiology, Center for Research and Innovation Philadelphia, PA
 My background is in magnetic resonance imaging, with a focus on the development of documentary and physical reference standards for quantitative MRI, deriving from my time at NIST. I have led and started several different quantitative efforts in professional societies such as the ISMRM and RSNA, most notably in diffusion-weighted MRI. My current research is primarily focused on imaging applications for cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment, performed under the auspices of the NCI’s National Clinical Trial Network; I also have interest in the imaging of neurodegenerative processes. Today, my research has broadened to include other imaging modalities such as CT, PET, SPECT, and mammography.
Environment: Clinical/Academic
Contact Information: mboss@acr.org

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Afua A. Yorke PhD Expertise:
University of Washington My expertise in radiation physics working in radiation oncology. Assessing medical physics quality assurance and quality management in low and middle-income, and upper middle-income countries and ultimately collaborating with these RT centers to build local QA programs. Creating low cost interactive educational environment to bridge the educational gap and clinical experience for physicists in less resourced facilities.
Environment: Environment: Academic-Hospital
Contact Information: ayorke2@uw.edu