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Meet the Hyperfine medical advisory board.

Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD

Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD

Senior Physician Executive at Hoag Health Network in Newport Beach, California. He holds the Ron and Sandi Simon Executive Medical Director Endowed Chair of the Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute at Hoag, having led the Institute from its inception. Dr. Brant-Zawadzki is a Gold Medal recipient from the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and has authored over 250 papers and numerous textbooks, including the first text on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Central Nervous System.

Fady Charbel, MD

Fady Charbel, MD

Head of the Department of Neurosurgery and Chief Clinical Service Director, Neurovascular Program, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is an internationally recognized clinical expert, researcher, and educator in stroke, brain aneurysms, and complex cerebral tumors. Dr. Charbel currently holds eight patents and is the developer and co-inventor of both the Charbel Micro-flowprobe® (designed for intracranial surgery) and the NOVA® system, which measures blood flow in the brain as part of the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease.

Murat Gunel, MD

Murat Gunel, MD

Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and Chief of Neurosurgery at Yale New Haven Health System. He is a pioneer and innovator in advanced neurosurgical techniques and serves as the Co-Director of the Yale Program on Neurogenetics. In addition to being a clinical expert in neurovascular surgery, Dr. Gunel leads a research laboratory that completed the two largest genome-wide association studies (GWAS) aimed at better understanding the genetic risk for intracranial aneurysms.

Brian Litt, MD

Brian Litt, MD

Professor of Neurology and Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Director of the Penn Epilepsy Center. Dr. Litt is also the Director of The Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, a cutting-edge initiative between the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences that serves as a catalyst across the University of Pennsylvania to develop partnerships with industry and create innovative technology and devices.

Michael Modic, MD

Michael Modic, MD

Senior Vice President of Population Health and Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Modic practiced for over 35 years at the Cleveland Clinic, serving as Chairman of the Division of Radiology, Chairman of the Neurological Institute, and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer. Here he oversaw the opening of Cleveland Clinic imaging sites across the U.S. and the expansion of its clinical presence in several cities around the world. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and recipient of the Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Imaging.

Shahid Nimjee, MD

Shahid Nimjee, MD

Co-director of Ohio State Wexner Medical Center’s Comprehensive Stroke Center and an Associate Professor at the Wexner School of Medicine, Ohio State University. Dr. Nimjee leads a translational research laboratory focused on discovering more effective and safer therapies to treat patients suffering from stroke and other thrombotic diseases. He is a practicing neurological surgeon with dual training in open and endovascular neurosurgery.

Roderic I. Pettigrew, PhD, MD

Roderic I. Pettigrew, PhD, MD

CEO of EnHealth and Executive Dean for EnMed at Texas A&M University. He is the founding director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2007 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for his use of MRI in human blood-flow studies and for leading advancements in bioengineering research and education.

Michael Schulder, MD

Michael Schulder, MD

Vice-Chair of Neurosurgery at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is also Director of the Brain Tumor Center of the Northwell Neuroscience Institute and has been a practicing neurosurgeon for more than 30 years. Dr. Schulder is an expert in a full range of brain surgery techniques and a pioneer in utilizing new image guidance methods for neurosurgery, including incorporating low-field and intraoperative MRI.

Eliot Siegel, MD

Eliot Siegel, MD

Professor and Vice-Chair at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Radiology. Under his leadership as the Chief of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, the Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System became the first 100% filmless radiology department in the world. He has written over 200 articles and book chapters and given hundreds of presentations related to computer applications in imaging and medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Radiology and the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine and on the Society of Computer Applications in Radiology Board of Directors.

James Smirniotopoulos, MD

James Smirniotopoulos, MD

Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University and former Professor and Chair of Radiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Previously, he was Chief of Neuroradiology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington D.C., responsible for training radiology residents throughout the U.S. He continues to teach Neuroradiology in the successor Radiologic-Pathology course sponsored by the ACR. He is a Special Volunteer at the National Library of Medicine at the NIH and is the Chief Editor of the MedPix™ Radiology Database and Teaching File. He is the recipient of the ASNR 2021 Gold Medal.