TOPGRAD - Organisers

Ai Wern Chung

Ai is an Instructor at the Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC), Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. A former recipient of an American Heart Association Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ai's research interests include developing techniques to exploit connectomes in order to quantify organisational changes in the brain with age and pathology. At FNNDSC, she has been utilising these methods to study the impact of mild traumatic brain injury, and for biomarker discovery in adults with congenital heart disease towards improved outcomes. While her training has largely been in engineering, Ai is primarily motivated to bring together neuroimaging technology and the clinic to address medical questions for societal gain.

Contact:

Ai Wern Chung (aiwern.chung@childrens.harvard.edu)

Markus D. Schirmer (markus.schirmer@ukbonn.de)

Hareem Nisar (she/her) (hnisar3@uwo.ca)

Markus D. Schirmer

Markus is head of the Computational Neuroradiology research group at the University Hospital Bonn. He was a former Marie-Curie Fellow at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Disease Bonn, Germany, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT. Markus applies his theoretical background combined with his interest in neuroimage analysis across the life-span to further research to improve our understanding of stroke and the associated outcome for patients. In his current work, he promotes the use of clinical magnetic resonance images in large scale analyses.

Hareem Nisar

Hareem is a Ph.D. student in the department of biomedical engineering at Western University, Canada. She is conducting research in the medical imaging domain at Robarts Research Institute, under the supervision of Dr. Terry Peters. She envisions safer therapeutic procedures using a minimally invasive approach and reduced risk for the patients. Her current work focuses on designing ultrasound-guided systems for trans-catheter cardiac interventions. Working as a Teaching Assistant at the university, she aims for active-learning based, safe and inclusive classrooms to promote student wellbeing and life-long learning.