Faculty and Staff
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Director
John Oshinski, PhD
CSIC Core Director, Associate Professor
Dr. Oshinski is known for his efforts at advancing the collaboration between Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as his dedication to advancing the technologies of MR imaging. His research has concentrated on developing imaging applications that directly impact disease diagnosis and patient care.
JOHN's BIOGRAPHY
Ranliang (Ron) Hu, MD
Medical Director
Dr. Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. He is a neuroradiologist interested in applying advanced imaging techniques to help diagnose and treat neurological disorders. His research interests include translational studies involving functional MRI, diffusion MRI and metabolic imaging in epilepsy, cerebrovascular diseases, multiple sclerosis, brain tumor and dementia.
RANLIANG's BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Basadre, RT(R)(MR)
MRI Technologist II
Sarah is a MRI Technologist located at CSIC's Health Sciences Research Building II facility. She is responsible for working with principal investigators and their coordinators in setting up new MRI studies (reviewing the study protocol to determine both scanner parameters and subject requirements and performing any sponsor required certifications). She is also responsible for MRI scan scheduling at the Center for Systems Imaging Core facilities.
SARAR's BIOGRAPHY
Aurora Compton BMSc RT(R)(MR)
MRI Technologist II
Aurora serves as the Research MRI Technologist at CSIC's Emory Brain Health Center at Executive Park facility. Currently, her focus is serving as the MRI Technologist for the imaging component of the Emory Healthy Brain Imaging Research Project.
AURORA's BIOGRAPHY
Ronald J. Crowe, RPh, BCNP
PET Radiopharmacy Manager
Ronald is a member of the Emory Radioactive Drug Research Committee and Radiation Safety Committee. He has worked on the development of manufacturing and quality control procedures for the use of radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging.
RONALD's BIOGRAPHY
Karen Dolph, RPh
Radiopharmacist
Karen Dolph is a licensed Radiopharmacist in the Radiopharmacy at the Center for Systems Imaging Core facilities. She is responsible for making/producing radioisotopes for radiopharmaceutical development research and for PET/CT and microPET/CT imaging modalities.
KAREN's BIOGRAPHY
K. Elizabeth McCorkle, ARRT(N,CT) NMTCB (PET)
PET Research Technologist III
Elizabeth works with principal investigators and research coordinators in setting up and reviewing PET/CT study protocols, scan parameters, research subject requirements for scan procedures, and sponsor required certifications. Elizabeth collaborates with the CSIC radiopharmacy manager to review radiopharmaceutical requirements and works with research nurses to facilitate human subject scans. She is responsible for PET/CT research scheduling and the transfer of research subject data and records to the PI and/or sponsor.
ELIZABETH's BIOGRAPHY
Gopinath Kaundinya, PhD
Medical Physicist
kaundinya.s.gopinath@emory.edu
Dr. Gopinath focuses on magnetic resonance neuroimaging of brain pathologies. Along with developing novel fMRI biomarkers for various pathologies, he has analyzed the neurophysiological basis of fMRI imaging using translational neuroimaging with nonhuman primate and rodent models. He has ongoing collaborations with Neurology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Biostatistics researchers.
GOPI's BIOGRAPHY
Shella Keilholz, PhD
MRI Animal Imaging Program Director
shella.keilholz@bme.gatech.edu
Dr. Keilholz serves as the Program Director for CSIC's animal MRI imaging program. She has been working in preclinical imaging for more than twenty years, with the goal of using animal models to improve the analysis of human MRI imaging. Her research uses multimodal approaches to extract information about neural dynamics from functional neuroimaging studies.
SHELLA's BIOGRAPHY
Steven H. Liang, PHD
Pet and Radiopharmacy Research Program Director
Steven H. Liang, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences and serves as the Program Director of CSIC's Radiochemistry, Cyclotron Facility, and Radiopharmacy services and is the head of the PET/CT program for CSIC. Dr. Liang is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. He holds professional memberships with American Chemical Society, Canadian Society of Chemistry, Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Sino-American Society of Nuclear Medicine. He is past president of the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Further information about Dr. Liang's research program and publications are available at his research site.
STEVEN's BIOGRAPHY
Jaekeun Park, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Park is an Associate Scientist at the Center for Systems Imaging Core. He is an MRI manager at CSIC's 9.4T MRI (Whitehead Biomed Research Bldg) and 11.7T MRI (HSRB-II) facilities. He provides MRI technical support for small animal research imaging protocols and contributes support for the CSIC's Micro-PET/CT small animal imaging.
JAEKEUN's BIOGRAPHY
Deqiang Qiu, PhD
MRI Program Director
Dr. Qiu is CSIC's MRI Program Director and his research is focused on the development and application of advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques, as well as image analysis tools to improve clinical diagnosis and management of neurological diseases such as cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease. He has extensive experience in medical image acquisition methods, the application of machine learning algorithms for image analysis and software development for data analysis.
DEQIANG's BIOGRAPHY
Sonny Roh, MHA, BMSc, RT(R)(MR)
MRI Technologist II
Sonny serves as the MRI Technologist at CSIC's Emory University Hospital (EUH) 3T MRI research imaging facility.
SONNY's BIOGRAPHY
David M. Schuster, MD
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Director
Dr. Schuster is a CSIC affiliated faculty member. His research focuses on projects involving molecular and nuclear imaging, with a special emphasis on positron emission tomography imaging. He uses novel radiotracers for cancer diagnosis and staging, especially the use of amino acid transport imaging for oncologic applications.
Joy Staulcup
CSIC Operations Manager
Joy serves as the operations manager responsible for the Center for Systems Imaging Core facilities' clinical and research business activities and administrative services. In this role, she assists the Program Directors, staff and faculty users in successfully developing, promoting, implementing, and achieving the Core's strategic plans for research growth and translational applications of advanced imaging technology in neuroscience, oncology, predictive health, and other interdisciplinary domains.
JOY's BIOGRAPHY
Shane Waldrep
PET Radiopharmacy Tech II
michael.waldrep@emoryhealthcare.org
Shane works with the radiochemists to synthesize radiopharmaceuticals and provide them with isotopes to help transition research radiopharmaceuticals for clinical use. He works with the radiopharmacists to maintain the inventory and quality control of radiopharmaceuticals, prepare radiopharmaceuticals for shipment, and maintains laboratory equipment.
SHANE's BIOGRAPHY
Samira N. Yeboah, RT(R)(MR)
MRI Technologist II
Samira is a MRI Technologist located at CSIC's Health Sciences Research Building II facility. She works with human and animal subjects. She also works with the Research Nurses to review subject issues, performs study scans, handles the transfer of subject data and records to principal investigators and/or sponsors. Samira is also responsible for MRI scan scheduling at the Center for Systems Imaging Core facilities.
SAMIRA's BIOGRAPHY
Lei Zhou, PhD
Staff Scientist
Dr. Zhou serves as a staff scientist for auxiliary hardware management, data storage and processing, computer cluster management and software installation. He has expertise in the use of MRI compatible auxiliary instruments for the simultaneous acquisition of physiological data during medical imaging.
LEI's BIOGRAPHY