Clinical & Research Applications ofAdvanced Neuroimaging
This course aims to present clinical and research applications of advanced neuroimaging techniques through a series of webinars!
Series of Webinars
New Material
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Invited Speakers
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Brain Pathologies
Brain Tumors
MS
Stroke
Our motto
Advanced neuroimaging made simple
Overview
After two successful seasons of Advantis' webinars, all past sessions are integrated in this course, along with monthly updated new content in the topics of clinical and research applications of advanced brain MR imaging.
Advanced MRI processing has started to become a key aspect of diagnostic and research protocols. This has surfaced various challenges for clinicians and researchers in their everyday practice. In our course, you will explore new ways to tackle these challenges and adopt new skills in the fields of DTI, DSC Perfusion and fMRI applied on a range of brain pathologies including neuro-oncology, neurodegeneration and stroke.
Together with our expert speakers, we will have the chance to discuss perspectives on case studies and process them real-time!
Advanced MRI processing has started to become a key aspect of diagnostic and research protocols. This has surfaced various challenges for clinicians and researchers in their everyday practice. In our course, you will explore new ways to tackle these challenges and adopt new skills in the fields of DTI, DSC Perfusion and fMRI applied on a range of brain pathologies including neuro-oncology, neurodegeneration and stroke.
Together with our expert speakers, we will have the chance to discuss perspectives on case studies and process them real-time!
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Meet our speakers
Dr. Foteini Christidi
Foteini Christidi is an experienced clinical neuropsychologist (MSc, PhD) with a demonstrated history of working in hospital and health care industry and a strong publication record in advanced neuroimaging techniques. She holds an MSc in Clinical Neuropsychology and a PhD in the field of Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques-Computational Neurosciences-Neuropsychology from the Department of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). She was a research fellow in the USA (Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston) and in Switzerland (Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Zurich) and trained in combining and interpreting neuropsychological methods along with advanced neuroimaging techniques. Since 2007, she has a long, daily clinical experience in neuropsychological assessment in healthy population and different clinical groups. She is providing lectures in several MSc programs in Greece regarding neuropsychological assessment and clinical/research application of advanced neuroimaging techniques for the study of human behavior. She has a 16-year research experience with national and international collaborations and she has co-authored >60 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Since 2002, she has been awarded several times by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) through different programs for conducting research on computational neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging techniques. At present, she is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Medical Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), a scientific clinical/research associate at First Department of Neurology and Second Department of Psychiatry of the same University and a field expert in advanced neuroimaging techniques at Advantis Medical Imaging.
Dr. George Samandouras
Mr George Samandouras is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Mr Samandouras has been trained in Oxford at the Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and completed a fellowship in Paris in 2008. Mr Samandouras runs the world's foremost course on brain tumour surgery attended by international senior neurosurgeons, Professors of Neurosurgery and Department Chiefs.
Mr Samandouras currently Directs the Education and training of neurosurgical trainees and fellows at Queen's Square. The aim of the course is to teach experienced neurosurgeons advanced techniques of safe and maximum brain tumour removal. A significant part of his practice includes second opinions for challenging or “inoperable” tumours. He also has interest in cranial endoscopy and spinal surgery.
Due to his extensive research experience Mr. Samandouras has received several awards and has many publications.
Dr. Sotirios Bisdas
Clinical Neuroradiology Advisor, Consultant neuroradiologist
Prof. Bisdas is a renowned clinical Neuroradiologist and prolific researcher in the field of advanced and hybrid imaging techniques for neurological diseases with emphasis on Neurooncology. He is leading the Neurooncology imaging research group at Queen Square.
Dr. Christos Bakirtzis
Neurologist (msc, phd)
Dr. Christos Bakirtzis has studied medicine in Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, where he has also obtained his MSc in Social Psychiatry. He obtained hisPhD in the Neurosciences Dep. of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He completed his specialty in Neurology in the AHEPA university hospital of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He is currently working as treating physician and academic scholar in the Second Dep. of Neurology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, situated in Thessaloniki Greece. Besides clinical and teaching duties, he participates in numerous clinical studies regarding new therapeutic agents in neurologic conditions. His academic interests include neuropsychology, neuroimaging and neuroimmunologyand he has published several studies in these fields. He serves as a member of the editorial boards of the journal of Hellenic Academy of Neuroimmunology“Neuroanosologia”, and of the journal of Hellenic Neurological Society “Archives ofClinical Neurology”. He is also appointed as representative of the Hellenic Neurological Society to the scientific panel of the European Academy of Neurology“Infectious Diseases Junior”.
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Dr. Evangelia Liouta
Clinical neuropsychologist
Dr. Evangelia Liouta is a neuropsychologist with specialization in neurosurgical neuropsychology. She obtained her BSc(Hons) in Psychology from the University of Greenwich, London, UK and her MSc in Neuropsychology from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK . She obtained her PhD in rs-fMRI in brain tumor patients from the Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard Karls Universitat, Tubingen, Germany. From 2013 she is a Clinical and Research Neuropsychology Associate in the Neurosurgery Department of Athens University, at Evangelismos Hospital, Greece. From 2014 she is teaching staff in MSc postgraduate programme “Clinical Neuropsychology” of Athens Medical School, and from 2019 she is Academic Fellow in the postgraduate programme “Clinical and Experimental Neurosurgical Anatomy” of Athens Medical School. She has a number of publications in peer review journals concerning mainly the neuropsychological deficits in patients with neurosurgical disorders such as brain tumors.
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Kyriaki Neophytou
ph.d. cANDIDATE IN cognitive science
Kyriaki Neophytou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive Science Department at the Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on the language abilities of people with aphasia and the goal is to get an insight as to how cognitive abilities can be affected in such cases, what this can tell us about the neural substrates that support cognition, and how we can use this information to optimize diagnosis and treatment. In her work she is using both behavioral and neuroimaging data, such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI).
She holds an MA in Research in Linguistics from Utrecht University, and has research training from the Neuroscience of Language Lab at the New York University of Abu Dhabi, specializing in Magneto-encephalography (MEG). She has co-authored several peer-reviewed papers and presented her work at various conferences internationally. She has been awarded the Onassis Foundation Scholarship for Hellenes and has won several other awards and fellowships throughout the years.
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Dr. Siyar Bahadir
CHief resident neurosurgeon
I am a Chief Resident Neurosurgeon in Hacettepe University Medical School in Ankara/Turkey. After my graduation from medical school in 2015, I have started working as a Neurosurgery resident. My main interest is improving surgical decision making and outcome through computational methods, including but not limited to computational tractography, connectomics, biomechanical modeling of brain tissue and radiomics.
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Jeffrey Lewine, PhD
CEO OF cadet nm
Jeffrey David Lewine, Ph.D., holds Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees in Neuroscience. He is the CEO of the Center for Advanced Diagnostics, Evaluation, and Therapeutics (CADET) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. CADET is focused on the development and evaluation of novel approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of conditions like TBI, PTSD, tinnitus, and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Lewine is also a Professor of Translational Neuroscience and the Mind Research Network, and Adjunct Faculty in the Departments of Neurology and Psychology at the University of New Mexico. His research involves multimodal evaluation (MRI, DTI, MRS, EEG, and MEG) of brain structure and function in health and disease. He is the principal neuroscientific consultant for the MindSet Integrated Co., and he has served as an expert neuroscientific witness on more than 40 civil and criminal cases.
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Dr. Christos Koutsarnakis
Clinical Neurosurgery Advisor, Neurosurgeon
Dr. Koutsarnakis is a consultant Neurosurgeon with a specialist interest in surgical neuro-oncology, brain mapping and skull base surgery at the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens, Greece. He is also head of the microneurosurgery laboratory and lecturer in Clinical and Experimental Neurosurgery at the University of Athens.
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Dr. Vasileios Kokkinos
epilepsy surgery neurophysiologist
Vasileios Kokkinos received the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the MSc in Hardware-Software Integrated Systems from the Engineering School of the University of Patras, Greece, in 1998 and 2001 respectively, the MSc in Basic Medical Sciences: Neurosciences from the Medical School of the University of Patras, in 2003, the Degree in Philosophy from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Patras, in 2005, the MSc in Neurological Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, Quebec, Canada, in 2007, and the MSc in Epileptology from King's College London, UK, in 2009. He completed a one-year Training/Research Fellowship at the National Society for Epilepsy, UK, on fMRI and EEG-fMRI for presurgical evaluation of epilepsy in 2009. He holds a PhD in Neurosciences and a PhD in Neuroinformatics from the Medical School of the University of Patras, Greece since 2010 and 2016 respectively. From 2009 to 2016 he was responsible for the Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging of the Epilepsy Center of Thessaloniki at St. Luke's Hospital, Greece, and since 2010 holds a post-doctoral fellowship position at the Neurophysiology Unit of the Medical School of the University of Patras. In 2017, he joined the Department of Neurological Surgery of the University of Pittsburgh as Instructor. He supported clinically the pre-surgical sEEG implantation planning, the intraoperative coordination, the post-implantation electrode localization, the interpretation of the intracranial EEG and the electrical cortical stimulation processes of the University of Pittsburgh Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. He is board-certified for epilepsy surgery neurophysiology (R EEG/PSG/EP T, CNIM, CLTM). Dr. Kokkinos is Instructor of Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School since 2019, focused in clinical epilepsy research and providing extensive clinical services to the Epilepsy Surgery Program and the Clinical MEG Program.
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Dr. Dimitrios Placantonakis
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery @ NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dimitris Placantonakis is a neurosurgeon-scientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He obtained his MD/PhD degrees at NYU School of Medicine. He then completed neurosurgery training at Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan-Kettering, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. He specializes in surgical resection of brain tumors, utilizing minimally invasive approaches and functional brain mapping. His laboratory uses human pluripotent stem cell platforms to model initiation of glioma, as well as patient-derived glioblastoma cultures to understand fundamental mechanisms of tumor progression and to uncover novel vulnerabilities. In addition, his group has been particularly interested in mechanisms responsible for dynamic reprogramming of 3D chromatin architecture in both human neural development and gliomagenesis.
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Dr. Darren Buono
Neuroradiologist & co-founder at star teleradiology
Residency: University of California San Diego Fellowship: University of California San Diego Clinical Interests: Dr. Buono completed his fellowship under Donald Resnick, MD at UCSD. He specializes in MRI with emphasis in imaging of the Spine and Joints and specifically related to sports, trauma, and injury. Dr. Buono also has extensive experience in Neuroradiology with emphasis on head and neck imaging. During Dr. Buono's career, he has interpreted and/or consulted on MRI and imaging studies on professional athletes from Major League Baseball, NFL, NBA, and the NHL including Hall of Famers and league MVPs. His clinical interests include MRI, Spine and Brain Imaging, and Orthopedic Imaging with special interest in DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) and MRI of Spine and Extremity Injuries. Dr. Buono has vast experience in Trauma and Emergency Radiology as well as Neuroradiology and specifically Traumatic Brain Injury.
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