Ahmed Bahrani,
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Associate Editor
Term Expiration:
12/31/2025
Affiliation(s):
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
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Areas of Interest:
MRI Neuroimaging, aging, AD: Alzheimer Disease and vascular risk contributors; cerebral blood flow; White matter hyperintensity
Biography & Research:
In 2005, I worked for Phillips Medical System representative in Iraq as a sales and installation engineer and then logistic coordinator, which provided me a significant experience in training the hospitals' technicians and engineers on the uses and operation of medical imaging and vital signs devices. In 2007, in addition to my work with the Phillips representative in Iraq, I was assigned as a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering/University of Baghdad with administrative and teaching duties. In 2013, I started my journey as a Ph.D. student at the Department of Biomedical Engineering/ University of Kentucky. Since 2014 I have worked on signal and image processing in addition to optical system improvements (near-infrared spectroscopy, NIRS, and diffuse correlation spectroscopy, DCS). All my work was focused on cerebrovascular diseases in the aging population (humans and mice). In 2016, I was a teaching assistant at the College of Engineering, focusing on MATLAB and Arduino programming for first-year engineering (FYE) students. In 2017, I worked as a research assistant at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA)/University of Kentucky (Dr. Jicha's Lab), working on MRI neuroimage data analysis and protocols design. In 2020, I started my postdoctoral position at the SBCoA working on developing, standardizing, and automating MRI Neuroimaging post-processing protocols: segmentation, registration, and quantification of the structural and functional imaging, like fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR), T1-weighted images, arterial-spin-labeling (ASL), susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI), quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), etc., in addition to the positron-emission tomography (PET). During that period, I was leading the imaging biomarker kit (WMH growth/regression kit) on the University of Kentucky with Dr. Gregory A. Jicha as a part of the MarkVCID consortium. In 2021, I was a fellow at the office of technology and commercialization (OTC)/University of Kentucky working on the per-market assessment of the new patents’ applications. In 2022, I was promoted to Assistant Professor (Research Title), Department of Neurology, and affiliated with SBCoA. Overall, I have developed and standardized several imaging analysis procedures and protocols for several studies, including a unique protocol for tracking the WMH changes in the aging population (MarkVCID consortium). Also, I improved a NIRS-DCS machine for better performance for measuring cerebral blood flow and oxygenation (humans and animals).
