Maryam Nezafat

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EDUCATION

King’s College London

London, United Kingdom

Ph.D., Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering January 2013- March 2017 Master of Research, Medical Imaging Science September 2011- Nov 2012 Azad University of Tehran Central branch

Tehran, Iran

BS, Hardware Computer Engineering September 2004- 2009 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA. USA

Research Scholar, Department of Medicine(Cardiovascular Division) August 2014- present Project titles:

1) Eliminating the impact of myocardial fat signal on myocardial T1 mapping using a spectrally-selective inversion pulse. 2) Imaging Sequence for Joint Myocardial T1 Mapping and Fat/Water Separation.

3) Simultaneous Imaging of Myocardial Fat and Scar using Dark Blood Late Gadolinium Enhancement

King’s College London

London, United Kingdom

Mentor: Professor René M. Botnar

Research Assistant in Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering Project title: Non-invasive myocardial tissue characterization for assessment of myocardial fibrosis and epi/peri/intra myocardial fat. January 2013-August 2014

Research Assistant in Medical Imaging

Project title: Optimization of signal response of Spin Echo, Gradient echo and Inversion Recovery in the presence of contrast agent. September 2011-2012

RELEVANT SKILLS

- Experimental design and data analysis - Cardiac MR Imaging

- MRI Pulse Sequence Design - Matlab

- Philips pulse programming (Attended Philips PPE, Sequence development mode and reconstruction workshops in Cleveland, USA

- Medical Imaging

PUBLICATIONS

1. Nezafat M, Henningsson M, Ripley DP, Dedieu N, Greil G, Greenwood JP, Börnert P, Plein S, Botnar RM,

“Coronary MR angiography at 3T: fat suppression versus water-fat separation,” Magn Reson Mater Phy, 2016, DOI: 10.1007/s10334-016-0550-7.

2. Jang J, Bellm S, Roujol S, Basha T. A, Nezafat M, Kato S, Weingärtner S, and Nezafat R (2016), Comparison of spoiled gradient echo and steady state free precession imaging for native myocardial T1 mapping using the slice interleaved T1 mapping (STONE) sequence, NMR Biomed., DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3598 Under Revision:

3. Nezafat M, Ramos I, Henningsson M, Protti A, Basha TA, Botnar RM, “A Segmented Modified Look-Locker Inversion Recovery 2D (MOLLI) Sequence for T1 Mapping in Mice”. PLoS One. 4. Nezafat M, Basha TA, and Botnar RM, “Imaging Sequence for Joint Myocardial T1 Mapping and Fat/Water Separation”. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

5. Nezafat M, Basha TA, Jang J, and Botnar RM, “Eliminating the Impact of Myocardial Fat Signal on Myocardial T1 Mapping Using a Spectrally-Selective Inversion Pulse”. 6. El-Rewaidy H, Nezafat M, Jang J, et al.,“Non-Rigid Active Shape Model-based Registration Framework for Motion Correction of Cardiac T1 Mapping”. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine In preparation:

7. Nezafat M, Fahmy AS, and Botnar RM, “Simultaneous Imaging of Myocardial Fat and Scar using Dark Blood Late Gadolinium Enhancement”.

8. Ripley DP, Nezafat M, Foley JRJ, Swoboda PP, Musa TA, Dobson LE, Garg P, Erhayiem B, McDiarmid AK, Plein S, Botnar RM, and Greenwood JP, “Diagnostic accuracy of Dixon water fat suppression coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography at 3.0 Tesla”.

9. Nakamori S, Nezafat M, Ngo L, et al., “Left Atrial Epicardial Adipose Tissue Measured by 3D Multi-echo Dixon Fat-water Separated Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Associations and Incremental Value”.

10. Ramos I, Henningsson M, Nezafat M, et al., “Molecular Imaging of Inflammation and Extracellular Matrix Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction”.

ABSTRACTS

1. Nezafat M, Fahmy AS, Addae G, and Botnar RM, “Simultaneous Imaging of Myocardial Fat and Scar using Dark Blood Late Gadolinium Enhancement”, ISMRM, Hawaii, USA, April 2017. 2. Nezafat M, Basha TA and Botnar RM, “Imaging Sequence for Joint Myocardial T1 Mapping and Fat/Water Separation,” SCMR, Washington, DC, USA, Feb 2017.

3. Ramos I, Henningsson M, Nezafat M, Lavin B, Gebhadr P, Protti A, Lacerda S, Lorrio S, Phinikaridou A, Flogel U, Shah AM, and Botnar RM, “Molecular Imaging of Inflammation and Extracellular Matrix Remodeling after Myocardial Infarction,” ISMRM, Singapore, May 2016. 4. Nezafat M, Roujol S, Jang J, Basha TA and Botnar RM, “Myocardial T1 Mapping with Spectrally-Selective Inversion Pulse to Reduce the Influence of Fat,” SCMR, Los Angeles, California, USA, Jan 2016. 5. Ripley DP, Nezafat M, Henningsson M, Foley JRJ, Swoboda PP, Musa TA, Dobson LE, Garg P, Erhayiem B, McDiarmid AK, Plein S, Botnar R, Greenwood JP, “ Diagnostic accuracy of Dixon Water Fat Suppression Coronary Artery Magnetic Resonance Angiography at 3.0 Tesla,” SCMR, Los Angeles, California, USA, Jan 2016.

6. Nezafat M, Roujol S, Jang J, Basha TA and Botnar RM, “Eliminating the Impact of Myocardial Lipid Content on Myocardial T1 Mapping Using a Spectrally-Selective Inversion Pulse,” ISMRM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 2015.

7. Nezafat M, Henningsson M, Stehning C, Akçakaya M, Botnar RM, “ A Segmented Modified Look-Locker Inversion Recovery (MOLLI) Sequence for High Heart Rate T1 Mapping of Mice,” SCMR-ISMRM Jointly Sponsored Workshop on Myocardial Tissue Characterization, Nice, France, Feb 2015. 8. Nezafat M, Henningsson M, Ripley DP, Dedieu N, Greil G, Greenwood JP, Börnert P, Plein S, Botnar RM,“Coronary MR Angiography at 3T: Fat Suppression versus Water-Fat Separation,” the 22nd Scientific Meeting of ISMRM, Milan, Italy, May 2014.Oral Presentation 9. Nezafat M, Henningsson M, Botnar RM, “Comparison between SPIR and Dixon Water Fat Separation Method,” Annual MEC meeting, Ascot, UK, Sep 2013.

References

1. René M. Botnar, Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging King’s College London

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2. Tamer A. Basha, Associate Professor

University of Cairo

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3. Ahmed S. Fahmy, Visiting Associate Professor

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School Email: ac1ut7@r.postjobfree.com

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