About

I am at the F.M. Kirby Center at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes.  I do medical research using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.

Education

Postdoctoral Training

I was a postdoctoral fellow (actually a Research Assocaite) at the F.M. Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and in the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

Two primary areas of research.

First, a Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) technique using amide protons. The main focus (for my work) was to scan patients with brain tumors using the amide proton technique to compare regions of tumor and regions of normal appearing white matter.

Second, used a diffusion tensor imaging technique and applied to the spinal cord.

PhD

University of British Columbia (2003)
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Thesis: T₂ Decay Curve Acquisition: Noise Considerations, Short T₂, and B₁ Field Encoding (PhD Thesis 1.9M)

MSc

University of Western Ontario (1997)
Department of Medical Biophysics (Imaging Research Laboratories at the Robarts Resarch Institute)

Thesis:  Quantitative Multi-Component T₂ Analysis Using Fast Spin-Echo MRI (MSc_Thesis 1.2M)

Life

Owings Mills Volunteer Fire Dept

I am a member of the Owings Mills Volunteer Fire Department and have been for about 5 years now.  I have my NFPA 1001 FF-I and FF-II as well as EMT-B and Hazmat Ops.  It is great to be able to serve my community in this way and is something I have wanted to do for a long time now.  I typically sleep in one night a week and go down other evenings when time permits.  Rarely I might go down from home if there is something bigger going on.

University of Western Ontario HazMat Team

The University of Western Ontario has their own emergency response Hazardous Materials and Confined Space Rescue Team. We train every 4 – 6 weeks on chemical spills, cleanup, emergency response, confined space rescue, and learn about many other special emergency response possibilities here at the university.