WMSG board members

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 modelling; 2) MRI monitoring of stem cell therapies in spinal cord injury and stroke. He has an annoying habit of asking annoying questions

Secretary: Cornelia Laule 2006-8
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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.

Member: Egill Rostrup 2006-8
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Member: Stefan Ropele 2007-9

Member: Roland Henry 2006-8
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Student Representative: 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.

Elects:

Member: Hugo Vrenken 2008-2010
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 Univesity Medical Center, applying quantitative and qualitative MR techniques and image analysis techniques in the fields of multiple sclerosis and dementia.