Prof. Miriam Scadeng
gained her medical degree from the University of London and Radiology training
at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK. She is a research
radiologist at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an Adjunct
Professor at the UCSD Department of Radiology and Center for Functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging. She joined the UCSD Faculty in 2002, working
primarily at the UCSD Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Her
primary research interests are the development of novel small animal imaging
techniques over a wide range of organ systems and species, including mechanisms
of traumatic brain injury, methods for high-resolution MRI of the lungs, and
anatomical and physiological studies in marine mammals and diving birds.
Dr. Tracy R Melzer received his BA (Hons) in
Physics from the University of Montana, a BSc (Hons) in Medical Physics from the
University of Canterbury, and a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Otago.
He is an Imaging Research Manager at the New Zealand Brain Research Institute,
Christchurch, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine,
University of Otago. His research interests include MRI (structural, diffusion,
perfusion, functional), Metabolic and amyloid PET imaging (positron emission
tomography), Parkinson’s disease, and Cognitive impairment.
Dr. Joshua P McGeown is a postdoctoral
research fellow at Mātai supported by the Neurological Foundation First
Fellowship. he completed an Honours Bachelor of Kinesiology and a Masters of
Science at Lakehead University in Canada. He moved to New Zealand in 2018 to
pursue a Ph.D. at Auckland University of Technology. He is a subject matter
expert in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). His work has focussed on
understanding how pathophysiological consequences of mTBI underlie clinical
symptoms and outcomes to identify targets for better prevention, assessment,
and rehabilitation.
Dr. Geoffrey G Handsfield received a
Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Mathematics Minor from East Carolina
University. After graduating, he worked in Medical Physics for the Leo Jenkins
Cancer Center at the Pitt Memorial Hospital before transitioning to
postgraduate work in Biomedical Engineering.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2014. After
completing his Ph.D., he worked briefly for Springbok, Inc., a startup company
in Charlottesville, Virginia focused on medical imaging, image analysis,
musculoskeletal modeling, and big data analytics. He was made a Whitaker
Scholar in 2015 and matriculated at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute to
work with Professors Thor Besier and Justin Fernandez in the Musculoskeletal
Modeling Group. He is currently an Aotearoa Fellow working on computational
modeling to understand muscle degradation in cerebral palsy and is supported by
a Marsden Fast-Start Grant to research in vivo imaging methods of determining
myofascial anatomy in humans.
