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 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.

Member: Derek Jones 2008-2010
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.  

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 University Medical Center, applying quantitative and qualitative MR techniques and image analysis techniques in the fields of multiple sclerosis and dementia.

Secretary: Roland Henry 2006-8 
 
 
 
 
 

Member: Stefan Ropele 2007-9

Student Representative: Ives Levesque (2008-2009)
Ives Levesque is a PhD candidate with Prof Bruce Pike 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. He has been a member of the WMSG since attending the 2003 WMSG workshop in Venice, and he also attended the workshop in Vancouver. He has presented his work at both of these meetings, as well as at ISMRM meetings.

Exiting:

Secretary: Cornelia Laule 2006-8  
 
 
 
 
 
Member: Egill Rostrup 2006-8 
 
 
 
 
 

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.