Alistair Young, BE (Hons) PhD Alistair Young, BE (Hons) PhD

Principal Investigator

Position

Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy with Radiology; Technical Director Auckland MRI Research Group, University of California, Los Angeles

About

Alistair Young has a first class honours degree in Engineering Science and a PhD in medical image analysis. He has 20 years experience in medical image processing and bioengineering.

Email

a.young@auckland.ac.nz

Phone

+64 9 373 7599 ext. 86115

Professor J. Paul Finn Professor J. Paul Finn

Co-Investigator


Position

Chief, Diagnostic Cardio Vascular Imaging, Director, Magnetic Resonance Research, University of California, Los Angeles

Email

pfinn@mednet.ucla.edu

Professor Peter Hunter Professor Peter Hunter

Co-Investigator

Position

Director Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland

Email

p.hunter@auckland.ac.nz

Phone

+64 9 373 7599 ext. 88395

Brett Cowan, BE (Hons), MBChB Brett Cowan, BE (Hons), MBChB

Co-Investigator

Position

Clinical Director Auckland MRI Research Group, University of Auckland

About

Dr Brett Cowan is an experienced medical practitioner as well has having a first class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. This allows him to provide the interface between technical and software requirements and the successful completion of a clinical trial.

Email

b.cowan@auckland.ac.nz

Phone

+64 9 373 7599 ext. 89512

Carissa Fonseca, BTech (Hons), PhD Carissa Fonseca, BTech (Hons), PhD

Co-Investigator

Position

Assistant Researcher, Diagnostic Cardio Vascular Imaging Section, Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles

Email

cfonseca@mednet.ucla.edu

Phone

+1 310 206 1992

Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD

Co-Investigator

Position

Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

About

Dr. Shivkumar received his medical degree from the University of Madras, India, and his Ph.D from UCLA. He completed his cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowship training at UCLA. Dr. Shivkumar is the director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His field of specialization is interventional cardiac electrophysiology, and he heads a group at UCLA that is involved in developing innovative techniques for catheter ablation and implanted devices.

Email

kshivkumar@mednet.ucla.edu

Phone

+1 310 206 2235

Michael Backhaus, Dipl.-Inf. Michael Backhaus, Dipl.-Inf.

Database Analyst

Position

CAP Database Analyst, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland

About

Michael Backhaus studied computer science at the University of Leipzig (Germany), wrote his thesis about applied ontologies in biology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and received the degree Diplom-Informatiker (equiv. MCompSc) in 2008.

His work focuses on the database backend for storing medical images and volumetric models, ontological annotations of model and image characteristics using medical and anatomical terms, as well as web-services for accessing models and related data.

CV

Email

m.backhaus@auckland.ac.nz

Phone

+64 9 373 7599 ext. 89341

Wenchao Tao, MS Wenchao Tao, MS

IT Manager

Position

IT Manager, Diagnostic Cardio Vascular Imaging Section, Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles

Email

wyang@mednet.ucla.edu

Jae-Do Chung, BE (Hons) PGDipSci Jae-Do Chung, BE (Hons) PGDipSci

Software Developer

Position

CAP Software Developer, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland

Email

jaedo.chung@auckland.ac.nz

Phone

+64 9 367 7157

Randall Britten, BSc(Hons) Randall Britten, BSc(Hons)

Software Development Advisor

Position

Software Development Leader, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland

Email

r.britten@auckland.ac.nz

Phone

+64 9 3737599 ext. 83402

Pau Medrano-Gracia Pau Medrano-Gracia

PhD Candidate

Position

PhD Candidate, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland

About

Born into a Catalan family of 5 in a small town near Barcelona (Tarrega,www.tarrega.cat) in Spain, my tertiary education was undertaken first in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, www.upc.edu) in both Mathematics and Telecommunication Engineering. My Master's thesis (on stereo-vision hardware) was supervised in the University of Auckland by Dr. Patrice Delmas (Computer Science). Other than science and technology, some of my interests are languages and definitely travelling.

Email

p.medrano@auckland.ac.nz

Phone

+64 9 373 7599  x 86908