People
Principal Investigator
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Abhijit J. Chaudhari |
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Valerie Porter |
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Yasser Abdelhafez Research Specialist M.B.B.Ch., M.Sc., M.D. (Nuclear Medicine), Cairo University, Egypt email: yabdelhafez AT ucdavis DOT edu |
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Alita D’Almeida Graduate Student, Major: Biomedical Engineering B. Eng. (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India email: ajdalmeida AT ucdavis DOT edu |
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Anelise Caceres Undergraduate Student, Major: Biomedical Engineering University of California Davis email: ajcaceres AT ucdavis DOT edu |
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Brad Hobson Research Scientist, CMGI and IRC Ph.D. (Pharmacology and Toxicology), University of California Davis email: bahobson AT ucdavis DOT edu |
Collaborators
Pamela J. Lein, Ph.D. (UC Davis – School of Veterinary Medicine, Molecular Biosciences)
Siba P. Raychaudhuri, M.D. (UC Davis – Rheumatology, Sacramento VA Medical Center)
Karen L. Bales, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Psychology, CNPRC)
Lorenzo Nardo, M.D., Ph.D. (UC Davis – Radiology)
Guobao Wang, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Radiology)
Alice F. Tarantal, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Pediatrics, CNPRC)
John H. Morrison, Ph.D. (UC Davis – Neurology, CNPRC)
Ramsey D. Badawi, Ph.D.(UC Davis – Radiology)
Anand A. Joshi, Ph.D. (USC – Electrical Engineering)
Krishna Nayak, Ph.D., (USC – Electrical Engineering)
Richard M. Leahy, Ph.D. (USC – Electrical Engineering)
Affiliated Centers
UC Davis Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging
UC Davis Imaging Research Center
California National Primate Research Center
UC Davis CounterACT Center of Excellence
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Alumni
| Name | Current position |
| Igor Immerman, M.D. | Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco |
| Shruti Agarwal, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, UTHealth Houston |
| Jeremy Katz, M.D. | Radiologist, University of Pittsburg, IL, USA |
| Felipe Godinez, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, UC Davis (co-mentored with Dr Ramsey Badawi) |
| Anupam Mitra, M.D. | Medical Fellow, UC Davis (co-mentored with Dr Siba Raychaudhuri) |
| Calvin Shaw, Ph.D. | Acoustic Hardware Engineering, Apple |
| Zachary Harmany, Ph.D. | Algorithm Engineer, Apple Inc |
| Brad Hobson, Ph.D. | Research Scientist, UC Davis Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging |
| Yasser Abdelhafez, M.D. | Research Specialist, UC Davis EXPLORER Center |
| Douglas J Rowland, Ph.D. | Applications Manager, Sigray, Inc |
| Soumajyoti Sarkar, M.D. | Physician, Institute of Child Health, Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Laura Sonoda, M.D., M.P.H. | Hand surgeon, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (co-mentored with Dr Robert Szabo) |
| Dario Mazza, M.S. | Biostatistician,Institute For Medical Research, Durham |
| Zachary Ashwell, M.D. | Radiologist, Radia Inc, Lynwood, WA |
| Cathy Zhou, M.D. | Physician, Epic Imaging, Portland, OR |
| Stephen Henrichon, M.D. | Radiologist, Dignity Health Mercy Radiology Group, Rancho Cordova, CA |
| Bedro Jin, M.D. | Radiologist, UCLA Health |
| Yves-Paul Nakache, M.D. | Physician, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center |
| David Gedeon, M. D. | Radiologist, Private Practice, Orange, CA |
| Michelle Wu, M.D. | Radiologist, Kaiser Permanente |
| Dylan Noblett, M.D. | Medical Fellow, UC San Diego |
| Amode Tembhekar, M.D. | Clinical Instructor, NYU |
| Sanchita Raychaudhuri, M.D. | Medical Fellow, Harvard Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Namitha Benjamin, M.S. | Senior Software Engineer, Apple (co-mentored with Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma) |
| Brent Foster, Ph.D. | Senior Research Scientist, Riverain Technologies |
| Heather Borgard, M.S. | Graduate student, UC Davis (on leave) |
| Cindy La, B.S. | Physician, Kaiser Permanente |
| Vinay Nittur, B.S. | Medical resident, University of Southern California |
| Scott To, B.S. | Software Engineer at Workday Inc. |
| Marissa Borgese, B.S. | Medical resident, Yale University |
| Vishal Dixit, B.S. | Data scientist, Capgemini |
| Yimeng Du, B.S. | PhD student, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Analise Caceres | Verification and Validation Engineer, Biorad |






