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Dione Farria

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Dione Farria is Co-Director for the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) and an assistant professor of Radiology, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Breast Imaging. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology and American Board of ...


Expertise: Breast imaging, breast cancer, doctor-patient communication

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Perry Grigsby

Professor of Radiation Oncology

Grigsby is an expert in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of gynecological and thyroid cancers.


Expertise: Radiation oncology, gynecologic oncology, cervical cancer, thyroid cancer, gynecologic brachytherapy

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Kathleen McDermott

Associate Professor of Psychology and Radiology

McDermott

McDermott is the director of the Memory and Cognition Laboratory. She investigates the mechanisms underlying memory formation and memory retrieval. Her research uses both behavioral (traditional psychological) and functional neuroimaging (specifically, fMRI) techniques. Ongoing projects include explorations ...


Expertise: memory, memory retrieval, memory formation, fMRI, false memories, neuroimaging

Direct contact: (314) 935-8743 / Kathleen_McDermott@wustl.edu


Barbara S. Monsees

Professor of Radiology and Chief of Breast Imaging Section at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

Monsees
Monsees

The chief of the breast imaging section at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Monsees is a national leader in the field of breast imaging. she is a nationally known advocate of early detection of breast cancer through mammography and of affordable, accessible and high-quality breast imaging services. ...


Expertise: breast cancer screening, breast imaging, mammography, radiology, diagnostic radiology

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Joel S. Perlmutter

Professor of Neurology and Radiology

Perlmutter works with patients who have movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, a progressive, degenerative movement disorder; dystonia, a state of abnormal tension in the body's tissues; Huntington's disease, an inherited adult-onset disease of the central nervous system; and essential tremor, ...


Expertise: neuroimaging, neuropharmacology, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, dystonia, essential tremor, dopaminergic pathways, …

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David Piwnica-Worms

Director, Molecular Imaging Center

David Piwinica-Worms, who is professor of radiology and of molecular biology and pharmacology, leads an innovative program at the Molecular Imaging Center that is dedicated to devising new non-invasive ways to analyze and monitor many different biological processes in living tissue. The imaging and ...


Expertise: Molecular imaging, non-invasive imaging, MRI, PET, bioluminescence, luciferase, gene expression

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Joseph Roti Roti

professor of radiation oncology

Roti Roti conducts research on the role of the cell nucleus in the tumor cell's response to ionizing radiation and heat, two therapeutic modalities used most often by radiation oncologists.


Expertise: radiotherapy, heat, ionizing radiation, radiosensitization

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Barry Siegel

Professor of radiology

Siegel is a faculty member of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. He is an expert in the use of metabolic tracers and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans to detect and analyze tumors. The techniques he and others have developed help physicians distinguish ...


Expertise: Nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET), cancer, oncology, breast cancer, carcinoma

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Michael Welch

Professor of radiology

Welch, an expert in synthetic chemistry, has been a leader for more than 30 years in the development of synthetic imaging agents that have allowed doctors to use positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose an increasingly wide variety of disorders. He is also head of the Radiochemistry Institute ...


Expertise: PET, nuclear medicine, synthetic chemistry, oncology, imaging agents, radioisotopes, radionuclides

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Victor Wickerhauser

Professor of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences

Victor Wickerhauser, Ph.D., professor of mathematics, is an expert in wavelet analysis, a sophisticated kind of harmonic analysis that is integral in analyzing and compressing data — video, sound or photographic, for instance — for a wide range of applications.


Expertise: wavelet analysis, harmonic analysis, compressed data, audio data, video data, fingerprinting analysis

Direct contact: (314) 935-6771 / victor@wustl.edu



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