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ISMRM 2022
Congratulations to Ashifa Hudani and Shirin Aliabadi for their oral presentations in the ISMRM 2022 Annual Meeting in London. Ashifa presented Characterization of Pulmonary Flow Patterns in Patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot using 4D flow MRI and Shirin presented 4D Flow MRI Analysis in BAV Patients with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Mild Deficiency: New Insights from Left Ventricular Pressure Drop.
2021 BME Graduate Program – Director Leadership Prize Winner!
Further to the announcement made at the BME formal on April 29, 2022, Ashifa Hudani was one the recipients this year for the 2021 Director’s Leadership Prize!
Ashifa was selected in recognition of her extensive leadership skills and outstanding contributions this past year. Ashifa displayed of leadership qualities, enthusiasm, and engagement with our BME community during an unprecedented time.
Congratulations!
Pulmonary Hypertension Article
Congratulations to Zach Hong for his article Pulmonary Artery Remodeling and Advanced Hemodynamics: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers of Pulmonary Hypertension which was published in Applied Science 2022: 12(7): 3518.
Collaboration articles in aortic coarction
Congratulations to Reza Sadeghi for his articles Reducing morbidity and mortality in patients with coarctation requires systematic differentiation of impacts of mixed valvular disease on coarctation hemodynamics and Impact of mixed valvular disease on coarctation hemodynamics using patient-specific lumped parameter and Lattice Boltzmann modeling published in JAHA and IJMS.
BAV article accepted in Frontiers
Congratulations to Patrick and Fatemeh for their article "Volumetric Hemodynamic Assessment in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease: New Insights From 3D Voxel-by-Voxel Analysis of Reverse Flow and Energetics in Relation to Aortic Dilation".
BME Entrance Prize 2021
Congratulations to Shirin Aliabadi, Ashifa Hudani, and Monisha Srabanti for receiving this prize. Way to go team!
New article in flow components
Congratulations to Hansuk Kim and his article "Left Ventricular Flow Distribution as a Novel Flow Biomarker in Atrial Fibrillation" accepted for publication in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, section Biomechanics.
FOS exam
Congratulation to Hansuk Kim for successfully passing his field of study exam.
FSCMR
Dr. Julio Garcia became Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
Absctrac Alberta BME conference
Congratulations to Ashifa for her abstract accepted for presentation in the Alberta BME conference to be held in Banff.
Abstracts 2021 - rTOF
Congratulation to Ashifa and Safia for their abstracts accepted in Women Engineering in Data Science 2021, Toronto Biomedical Engineering (ToBE) Conference 2021, and ESC 2021. Way to go!
Dr. Garcia recognized as #GREATSupervisor 2020
On September 25, FGS held a virtual event for nominated #GREATSupervisors 2020.
Libin Award
Congratulations to Hana for obtaining the Kenneth M Stephenson Graduate Scholarship in Cardiovascular Research 2020.
Conference Abstracts Accepted
Congratulations to Hansuk and Gursharan for their accepted conference articles in the IEEE-EMBS 2020. We are similarly happy for Patrick and his work on bicuspid valve disease which was accepted in the ESC 2020 congress. Well done team!
BME Award
Congratulations to Hansuk Kim for his BME Research Scholarship Award 2020. Well done!!
Summer Awards
Congratulations to Kailey Beckie for her summer award from Alberta Innovates.
IEEE Senior Member
Dr. Garcia was elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE.
Hana conference abstracts
Hana is presenting her work in the upcoming Canadian Association of Radiology and in the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine conferences. Congratulations in your great work!
Farewell Karen - SCIC family
Thank you Karen for your great work at the Stephenson Centre and all the support you provided to the 4D flow team.
Hopefully we see you around the hospital.
Pressure Drop using 4D Flow MRI
Congratulations to Fiona Burns and Ali Fatehi Hassanabad for their accepted article Evaluation of Pressure Drop using 4D Flow MRI: Clinical Feasibility in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve which was accepted in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
SCMR 2020
Congratulations to Fiona Burns and Kailey Beckie for their work accepted at the upcoming SCMR 2020 Scientific Sessions to be held in Orlando.
Discovery Day
Our laboratory hosted high school students to discover how cardiac imaging is performed and learn from experimental models. Dr. Garcia also participated in the career panel of this wonderful event that hosted over 400 students at University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine on October 25.
Vendredi decouverte des métiers.
Dr. Garcia participated in the "Vendredi decouverte des métiers" at Centre d’appui familial on October 18th. This activity showed to pre-school kids how their heart works using fun activities and building a working heart pump.
Physicalizing Cardiac Blood Flow Data via 3D Printing
Congratulations to Kathleen for her accepted article "Physicalizing Cardiac Blood Flow Data via 3D Printing" to appear in Computers & Graphics 2019. A great work showing the a workflow to 3D print physical models of cardiac flow hemodynamics. You can access it from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0097849319301554.
Libin Gala 2019
The Stephenson Centre team was pleased to attend the Libin Gala 2019. One of the axis of this year Gala was Precision Medicine. Our Personalized Diagnostics Program was presented in a video by Dr. James White, director of the Stephenson Centre.
AHA accepted abstract
Congratulations to Patrick Geeraert, his work "Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease Increases Viscous Energy Loss, Circumferential Wall Shear Stress, And Pressure Drop In The Ascending Aorta" was accepted in the upcoming AHA scientific sessions 2019.
JMRI cover
The article "Intracardiac 4D Flow MRI in Congenital Heart Disease: Recommendations on Behalf of the ISMRM Flow & Motion Study Group" got the cover of the September 2019 issue. You access it from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmri.26858
HYRS Presentations
Our HYRS students, Kailey Beckie and Abhay Parmar presented today their project results during the HYRS open-house. Great job!
Left atrial vortex size and velocity distributions by 4D flow MRI
We are pleased to share our article "Left atrial vortex size and velocity distributions by 4D flow MRI in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: Associations with age and CHA2DS2‐VASc risk score". You can access from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmri.26876
4D Flow MRI in Congenital Heart Disease
We are happy to share the "Intracardiac 4D Flow MRI in Congenital Heart Disease: Recommendations on Behalf of the ISMRM Flow & Motion Study Group". You access it from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmri.26858
Poster Award Stephenson Research Retreat 2019
Congratulations to Patrick Geeraert for winning this year poster presentation award. Kudos!!
Heritage Summer Students
We welcome Kailey and Abhay from the Heritage Youth Researcher Summer Program 2019. They will join our SEED program for six weeks.
ISMRM 2019
During this year conference two works were presented as digital posters during the Cardiovascular Session.
Summer Students Awards
This year, Patrick Geeraert and Kiranvir Sabia are part of the SEED program within the 4D flow MRI group. Both of them received summer stipend awards. Patrick from Alberta Innovates and Kiranvir from the Biomedical Engineering program and the Libin Cardiovascular Institute. Congratulations and welcome to the team!!
Welcome, farewell and friends of the SCIC family
We welcome our new assistant Karen Evans to join the team at the Stephenson Centre. Our dear Ahmed Abdelhaleem will be leaving us this month to continue his training in the US. Congratulation for the fellowship matching! Some friends and family also attended this gathering.
4D flow in aortic stenosis
We are happy to share a recent review article entitled "The Role of Imaging of Flow Patterns by 4D Flow MRI in Aortic Stenosis". You can access the article from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30732721 Enjoy your lecture!
Wall shear stress as biomarker in bicuspid valve disease
We are happy to share a recent review article entitled "Utilizing wall shear stress as a clinical biomarker for bicuspid valve-associated aortopathy.". This review is product of our close collaboration with our friends from the Fedak’s lab at University of Calgary. You can access the article from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30633073. Enjoy your lecture!
Dr. Garcia member of ACHRI
Dr. Garcia is a new investigator member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) within the Genes, Development and Health theme group. This institute membership will allow the integration of our 4D flow program at ACHRI.
SCMR 2019
Our team successfully presented two works this year:
- Bicuspid Aortic Valves Facilitates Significantly Increased Aortic Pressure Drops, Circumferential Wall Shear Stress, and Viscous Energy Loss. Patrick Geeraert. Poster
- Left Ventricular Flow Component Analysis in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease and Aortic Regurgitation. Ahmed Abdelhaleem. Oral presentation.