Other advisors

Affiliate faculty advisors

Associate Professor Alan Wang, PhD
Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland


Dr Anne Chin, MD
Assistant Professor – University of Montreal, Canada
Cardiothoracic Radiologist – University of Montreal Health Centre


Associate Professor Audrey Fan, PhD
Assistant Professor – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, U.S.A


Associate Professor Beau Pontré, PhD
Senior Lecturer – Department of Anatomy and Medical Imaging, University of Auckland


Associate Professor David Dubowitz, PhD/MD
Director, Neuroradiologist, Neuroscientist – Centre for Advanced MRI, University of Auckland


Professor Feliks Kogan, PhD
Department of Radiology, Stanford University, U.S.A


Associate Professor Jia Guo, PhD
Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, U.S.A


Professor Manoj Saranathan, PhD
UMass Chan Medical School, Department of Radiology, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A


Dr Matthew McDonald
Registrar Ophthalmologist, RANZCO


Associate Professor Mehmet Kurt, PhD
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, U.S.A


Associate Professor Michael Hoff, PhD
Director of Diagnostic Medical Physics, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco (USCF), U.S.A


Professor Nils Forkert, PhD
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair – University of Calgary, Canada


Associate Professor Rachelle Bitton, PhD
Department of Radiology, Stanford University, CA, U.S.A


Dr Rachel Fleming, PhD
Science Leader  – The New Zealand Institute of Public Health and Forensic Science


Associate Professor Rohit Ramchandra, PhD
Department of Physiology, University of Auckland


Professor Salil Soman, MSc/MD
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco (USCF), U.S.A


Dr Samuel Rosset, PhD
Senior Research Fellow – Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland


Dr Sarah-Jane Guild, PhD
Senior Research Fellow – Department of Physiology, University of Auckland


Dr Sjoerd Vos, PhD
Senior Research Fellow– Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis, University of Western Australia


Professor Stefan Skare, PhD
Karolinska Hospital, Sweden


Associate Professor Tracy Melzer, PhD
New Zealand Brain Research Institute and University of Canterbury

Scientific & engineering research advisors

Professor Akshay Chaudhari, PhD
Department of Radiology, Stanford University, U.S.A


Anna-Maria Lydon, DCR(R)/BHSc/PGDipMRI
Charge MR Technologist – Centre for Advanced MRI, University of Auckland


Dr Ben Parkinson, PhD
Senior Engineer – Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington


Dr Charlène Mauger, PhD
Research Associate – King’s College London, U.K


Dr Daniel Kopeinigg, PhD
Chief Technology Officer – Jaunt, U.S.A


Doug King, PhD
Research Associate – Auckland University of Technology
Clinical Nurse Specialist – Hutt Valley District Health Board


Dr Ellyce Stehlin, PhD
R&D Engineer – MED-EL, Austria


Dr Eric Peterson, PhD
Senior Software Engineer – HeartVista, San Francisco, U.S.A


Dr Itamar Terem, MSc
Research Associate – Department of Electrical Engineering & Structural Biology, Stanford University, U.S.A


Dr Julian Maclaren, PhD
Engineer – Google ATAP, U.S.A


Dr Kathleen Gilbert, PhD
Research Fellow – Auckland Bioengineering Institute


Associate Professor Maged Goubran, PhD
Sunnybrook Research Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto


Dr Mahdi Rahimi, PhD
Software Engineer – Facebook, U.S.A


Dr Mathias Engström, PhD
Research Manager – Collective Minds Radiology, Sweden


Dr Melvyn Ooi, PhD
MR Clinical Scientist – Philips Healthcare, U.S.A


Dr Murat Aksoy, PhD
Research Associate – Department of Radiology, Stanford University, U.S.A


Assistant Professor Natalie Zahr, PhD
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, U.S.A


Dr Phillip Ward, PhD
Research Fellow – Turner Institute for Brain & Mental Health, Monash University, Australia


Dr Rafael O’Halloran, PhD
Senior Scientist – Hyperfine Inc, U.S.A


Ronald Watkins, AAS/AOS
Senior Research Associate, Electrical Engineer – Department of Radiology, Stanford University, U.S.A


Dr Ross Keenan, MB ChB
Director – Pacific Radiology, New Zealand


Dr Sergei Obruchkov, PhD
Engineer – Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington


Dr Wei Bian, PhD
Chief Scientist – Alltech Medical Systems, China