WMSG board members

Chairman: Alex MacKay 2009-11
University of British Columbia
- Research - qT2
His favourite system for MRI studies is wood: “Wood is robust, dead = alive and we understand T2 and T1 of water in wood quantitatively and analytically with no unknown parameters. Brain is not nearly as well behaved”
 

Scientific Director: Derek Jones 2008-10
Derek is Professor and Director of MRI at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Cardiff University, Wales, UK. His interests have been developing methods to study the white matter of the human brain for over a decade. The main focus has been on diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). Current research interests include combining multi-spectral structural (diffusion-based metrics, relaxometry, magnetization transfer and volumetric) data with multi-spectral functional (MEG, fMRI & EEG) data.  

Secretary: Sean Deoni 2009-11
- Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (aka FMRIB) and the Centre for NeuroImaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
- Research: DESPOT

Member: Hugo Vrenken 2008-10
After obtaining Master’s degrees in Experimental Physics and in Applied Physics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Dr. Vrenken performed his PhD research in the field of quantitative MR imaging in multiple sclerosis, at the MS Center Amsterdam, under supervision of Professors Barkhof, Castelijns, and Polman, and Dr. Pouwels. He is currently employed as a senior investigator at the VU University Medical Center, applying quantitative and qualitative MR techniques and image analysis techniques in the fields of multiple sclerosis and dementia.

Member: Stefan Ropele 2007-9

Member: Bruce Pike 2009-11
McGill University,
- Professor of: Neurology & Neurosurgery; Biomedical Engineering at McGill University
- Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute
- Research: Pulsed MT, fMRI
 

Student Representative: Shannon Kolind 2009-10
- PhD from University of British Columbia
- PDF at University of Oxford
- Research: qT2 and Diffusion Meets DESPOT
 

Webmaster <not a board member>: Thorarin Bjarnason 2007-8
Thor is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary in Canada with the ImagingInformatics research group. Thor is interested in imaging and image processing in white matter. His main focus is processing multicomponent T₂ relaxation data.

Exiting:

Chairman: Greg Stanisz 2006-8
Greg's lab is in Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Canada. His main research focus is presently twofold: 1) quantitative MRI including magnetization transfer, multicomponent T₂ relaxation and diffusion modeling; 2) MRI monitoring of stem cell therapies in spinal cord injury and stroke. He has an annoying habit of asking annoying questions

Program Director: Charles Guttmann 2006-8
Charles is the Director of the Center for Neurological Imaging at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His main interest is the quantitative evaluation of normal and pathological states of the brain using MRI. Charles' research focusses on the understanding of the natural course of MS and of white matter disorders in the elderly. Using MRI findings as phenotypic descriptors and elucidating the relationship between brain morphological changes and functional deficits is particularly emphasized.

Secretary: Roland Henry 2006-8 
 
 
 
 
 

Student Representative: Ives Levesque 2008-9
Ives Levesque is a PhD candidate with Prof Bruce Pike at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute, at McGill University in Montreal. His current work is focused on quantitative magnetization transfer imaging with application to multiple sclerosis, in tissue modeling and data acquisition.