About Me

I am a highly motivated medical imaging scientist with a desire to improve patient outcomes through development of medical devices, point-of-care technologies, and minimally-invasive therapies. I am a proponent of science communication to all levels, and have honed my skills through international research collaborations, numerous conference presentations, and contributing articles to an advice column called Gradhacker. I have also completed a rotation in Interventional Radiology where I witnessed first-hand the power of clinical collaboration when designing engineering solutions to meet clinical needs.

I graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Electrical Engineering. I followed this up with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. My dissertation work focused on Magnetic Resonance temperature mapping for guidance of thermal therapies and development of a preclinical MR-guided focused ultrasound system. I continued my work at the National Institute for Standards and Technology where I developed tools validation of quantitative imaging methods and novel contast mechanisms for techniques such as MR Fingerprinting and low-field MRI. In 2021 I joined Hyperfine as a Clinical Scientist, where I develop research collaborations and drive technical projects to further clinical use of point-of-care MRI.

My work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and software featured by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation. I hold a patent in MR Thermometry. A full list of my publications can be found on Google Scholar, as well as conference proceedings and talks in my CV. I am an advocate of open science and code sharing. My distribution-ready algorithms can be found on my Github page, with more always in development behind the scenes.

Outside of lab I can usually be found going up mountains, whether it be via snow, hiking, running, or rock climbing shoe. Sometimes I go down them too.