MRI Research Faculty and Staff

About Our Faculty and Staff

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Our MRI research faculty and staff have specialized expertise in many areas, including:

• Functional neuroimaging studies (fMRI)
• Diffusion and diffusion tensor imaging
• Arterial spin labeling perfusion imaging
• Quantification of cartilage degradation
• MR spectroscopy
• Highly parallel accelerated volumetric imaging
• Prostate imaging
• Monitoring cancer therapy
• Non-invasive assessment of renal function
• Muscle metabolism
• MR angiography
• In-Vivo multinuclear MR imaging methods

Research Faculty

• David C. Alsop, PhD, Director, Division of MR Research
• Deborah Burstein Mattingly, PhD
• Aaron K. Grant, PhD, Director, Preclinical MRI
• Gopal Varma, PhD

Clinical Faculty

• Deborah Levine, MD
• Martin Smith, MD
• Leo Tsai, MD, PhD, Msc
• Jesse Wei, MD
• Jim Wu, MD

Research Fellows

• Fanny Munsch, PhD (email)
• Manuel Taso, PhD (email)
• Qianhui Dou (email)

Staff

• Fotini Papadopoulou, RT R MR, Senior MR Technologist (email)
• Stephanie Waldman, BS, Clinical Research Assistant (email)
• Lauren Phung, BS, Clinical Research Assistant (email)

Administrative

• Bridget Russo (Giarusso), BS, Research Administrator (email)
• Kim Tablante, Research Administrator (email)
• Lois Gilden, BA, Administrative Associate (email)