RESILIENTBRAIN.ORG - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital
Adrian V. Dalca is a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the EECS department. He is interested in mathematical models and machine learning for medical image analysis, with a focus on characterizing genetic and clinical effects on imaging phenotypes, especially as applied to stroke. He is also interested and active in healthcare entrepreneurship and translation of algorithms to the clinic.
Current Position: Neurology Resident, PGY-4, Loyola University Medical Center Upcoming Position: 2018 Movement Disorders Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Working with Dr. Rost was one of the major highlights in my life as a neurologist. As a first-year graduate student, she took me under her wing and guided me in my growth. She has an extremely captivating and enthusiastic personality that spreads to all of those around her. Whether the work involved analyzing data, coming up with new ideas for research, or simply thinking of what would be the best treat to bring to the next group meeting, she always kept a positive spirit and the love of research very much alive. I am delighted to hear of her growing group and am happy to be a part of it.
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- Current Position: PGY - 3 Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Current Position: PGY-3 Internal Medicine resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Anne worked as a Research Fellow at the MGH JPK Stroke Research Center. After graduating from Medical School at the University of Rostock in Germany, she began working as a researcher and physician at the Albrecht-Kossel-Institute for Neuroregeneration at the University of Rostock with a focus on monogenetic and polygenetic causes of stroke and lysosomal storage disorders. The shared interest in stroke genetics led Anne to the position within Dr. Natalia Rost's laboratory at the J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center. In the Rost Research Lab, she aimed to characterize the genetic architecture of acute and chronic cerbrovascular lesions and to additionally assess the impact of genetic variation on known vascular risk factors. Beyond her work at MGH, Anne's long-term career goal is to become an academic neurologist and clinician-scientist with an independent line of research in genetics and neuroimaging of ischemic stroke.
Current Position: Resident in Neuroradiology, Department of Neuroradiology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt a.M. Germany Dr. Rost is a fantastic mentor!
Current Position: I am currently a PGY1 resident at NYU Langone Medical Center pursing my neurology residency. Dr. Rost was instrumental in fostering my curiosity and excitement for clinical vascular neurology research. I learned a great deal about acute ischemic stroke, vascular risk factors, statistical analysis, and genetic analysis because of Dr. Rost's dedication towards mentoring me as a medical student researcher. Additionally, I worked with a wonderful team comprised of people with diverse academic backgrounds who taught and helped deepen my understanding of genetic stroke research. My enriching experience in Dr. Rost's lab fortified my decision to choose a career in academic neurology!
Current Position: Third-year medical student at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri During my M.A. at Boston University, Dr. Rost served as my master's thesis advisor. During my time in Dr. Rost's lab, I worked on genetic analyses of stroke, MRI white matter hyperintensity, and related phenotypes.
Job Titles:
- Student in Polina Golland
Clinton Wang is a PhD student in Polina Golland's group at MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research is focused on medical image analysis and deep learning
Florian Dubost is PhD student in medical image analysis at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. his research is brain segmentation of Cerebral Microbleeds and Virchow-Robin Spaces. His research interests are machine learning and computer vision techniques applied to medical data.
Current Position: Director, Stroke Services, Goztepe EAH (Education and Training Hospital), Assistant Professor of Neurology, Istanbul Medeniyet University I was very happy to have the chance to study with Dr. Rost and team. I felt a part of the team since the first day I started with her. I admired her work discipline and ability to at the same time establish internal relationships with the whole team. And the team, they are very professional, helpful and smiling (of course hardworking) at all times.
Current Position: Research Scientist. Ira spent 5 months in the Rost Lab while pursuing her PhD in Medical Image Computing at Imperial College London. She focused on developing a preprocessing pipeline for functional MRI data of stroke patients and worked on functional connectivity analysis in a hospital-based cohort of acute ischemic stroke patients. The end goal of her project was to investigate the potential of improving functional outcome prediction with connectivity measures.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, UC San Diego, Department of Neurosciences, Division of Neurocritical Care Natalia is a wonderful teacher, researcher, and friend. I'm working in neurocritical care now, and she was instrumental in helping me arrive at the decision to do so.
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- Current Position: Internal Medicine Resident at Tufts Medical Center in Her PGY - 2 Year
Current Position: Internal Medicine Resident at Tufts Medical Center in her PGY-2 year. I graduated from University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2016. I worked at MGH with Natalia full time from 2010-2012 and previously, I had worked with her as a summer intern in 2008 and 2009.
Kathleen (Katy) is our Project Coordinator for the Rost Research Group and the MRI-GENIE study. She provides support for the Rost Research Lab on both the administrative and neuroimaging analysis sides. She received her BSc in Neuroscience from Stonehill College and plans to continue her career in clinical research operations.
Current Position: PGY 4 Neurology Resident, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Upcoming Position: Vascular Neurology Fellow, University of California Los Angeles I am a neurology resident with specific interest in research regarding vascular neurology and endovascular treatment of stroke. I was able to join Dr. Rost's lab working on the project identifying white matter intensity burden on stroke thrombectomy outcome. Dr. Rost's lab includes a wonderful team of physicians and scientists giving a great learning experience.
Lisa Cloonan worked in the Rost Research Lab from 2009-2015 as a Neuroimaging Analyst/Project Coordinator. Her current position is at Decision Resources Group as a Business Insights Analyst.
Marco is our Computational CRC working primarily on the analysis pipeline for extracting phenotypic traits from acute ischemic stroke patient MRIs. He received his BA in Biology from Tufts University and is currently continuing his education by pursuing a MS Bioinformatics from Northeastern University. In the Rost Lab, he aims to continue developing computational skills for analyzing biological data and assist in facilitating novel insights.
Job Titles:
- Assistant in Neurology at MGH
Mark is an Assistant in Neurology at MGH and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He completed his M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center and came to Boston for his Neurology residency within Partners. Mark is interested in understanding individualized recovery after ischemic stroke. In the Rost Research Lab, Mark is using advanced neuroimaging characterization of white matter to assess the contribution of functional connectivity to stroke recovery. In the future, he hopes to build accurate models for individualized prognostication in ischemic stroke recovery.
Mattias Drake Mattias works as a neuroradiologist and doctoral student at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Clinical Computational Neuroimaging Group
Ona is Director of the Clinical Computational Neuroimaging Group, a Martinos faculty member, Associate Neuroscientist at MGH, Associate Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and a Co-Investigator of the MRI-GENIE study. She earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT and has remained in the Boston area. She is the Principal Investigator of several NIH-NINDS funded projects. The primary goals of her research are to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and management of patients with brain injury resulting from stroke, cardiac arrest or trauma. Her group's research concentrates on the development of multiparametric algorithms which combine multiple MRI-modalities to assess tissue injury and recovery. Additionally, her research concentrates on the refinement of advanced MRI data acquisition and analysis techniques, such as diffusion-weighted and perfusion-weighted MRI.
Pamela is an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, an Instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, and instructor in epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She earned her bachelor in Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science & a Doctor of Science (MPH) from Harvard School of Public Health. She received a K01 award from the NHLBI to study the effects of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid supplements on functional outcomes from stroke and examine pre-stroke predictors of white matter disease. She is collaborating with Dr. Rost and her team to achieve the goals of the grant. Pamela plans to continue researching cardiovascular epidemiology with a focus on the morbidity burden associated with cerebrovascular diseases, particularly stroke.
Current Position: Neurointensive Care staff and Research Director of the NeuroICU, Hospital Vitória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dr. Rost was my mentor during my research fellowship at the Kistler Stroke Research Center, MGH (2014-2015). During that year, I had the opportunity to work with her on the relationship between leukoaraiosis, blood-brain barrier disruption and tissue outcomes after acute ischemic stroke. Working with Dr. Rost proved to be a watershed moment in my career, deeply influencing the development of my PhD thesis after I came back to Brazil and setting the bar in terms of professionalism, scientific rigor and enthusiasm in academic research.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Student in Polina Golland
Polina is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. She received her BSc and Masters in Computer Science from Technion, Israel and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Polina's research spans computer vision and machine learning and her primary research interest is in developing novel techniques for biomedical image analysis and understanding. Polina's current research focuses on developing statistical analysis methods for characterization of biological processes using images (from MRI to microscopy) as a source of information.
Razvan Marinescu is a a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, working with Polina Golland to develop machine learning algorithms for quantifying pathologies in the human brain.
Current Position: PGY-4 resident at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in the Combined Preventive - and Occupational Medicine Residency Program and the current chief resident in the program The time working with Dr. Rost in her group at Massachusetts General Hospital is one of the highlights of my career. Not only did I learn much from her about medicine and research, she is also my role model because she is someone whom everybody loves and highly respects. She has this way of making everyone around her comfortable. I loved working with Dr. Rost, and will be forever thankful for that experience!
Current position: Assistant Professor of Neurology and Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Current position: Researcher at the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy and Clinical Expert in the field of Neurology for the European Medicines Agency The mentorship of Dr. Rost was particularly inspiring and motivating. Under Dr. Rost's supportive guidance, I increased my knowledge on cerebral small vessel disease and learned about semi quantitative methods to adequately measure radiologic markers of cerebral small vessel disease - mainly white matter hyperintensity - and to better evaluate their correlations with biomolecular markers and outcome measures.