Course Lecturers
The Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course lecturers are made up of clinical neuroimaging experts with a range of backgrounds across clinical practice and research.
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Associate Prof Natalie Voets is the founder and director of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course. She is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (FMRIB-OxCIN) and an Awake Intraoperative Neurosurgery Technician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her primary interests include neurosurgical planning, especially fMRI and diffusion tractography to maximise quality of life outcomes in patients with drug resistant epilepsy and glioma. |
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Prof Mark Jenkinson is the co-director of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course. He is a non-clinical scientist and Professor of Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford and the University of Adelaide. Prof Jenkinson’s research involves multimodal modelling of populations to describe disease processes and investigating structural segmentation and analysis of brain anatomy and pathology and their relationship with disease. He has coordinated, lectured and tutored on the OxCIN MRI graduate program and the international FMRIB Software Library (FSL) course. |
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Dr Ludovica Griffanti is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, working within the MRI analysis group and translational neuroimaging group at OxCIN. Her research involves developing imaging analysis tools with the aim to translate research knowledge and quantitative measurements from brain MRI in clinical settings. Dr. Griffanti is involved in post-graduate supervision and in teaching, both within the University of Oxford and at the international FMRIB Software Library (FSL) course. She is the module coordinator for Section E: Brain Imaging in Psychiatry and Neurodegeneration. |
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Dr Pieter Pretorius is a Consultant Neuroradiologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. His clinical role involves diagnostic neuroradiology, specifically the interpretation of MRI and CT scans of the brain, spine, skull base and head and neck in adults and children. Dr Pretorius has a particular interest in neuro-oncological imaging and his research interests lie in the translation of neuroimaging advances to clinical care |
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Dr Johannes Klein is Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and Consultant Neurologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust, with a special interest in movement disorders and neurodegenerative disease. His research work centres on advanced, non-invasive imaging techniques to develop imaging markers for Parkinson’s and related disorders. The aim is to both predict and detect disease in its earliest stages, to track disease-related changes of brain structure and function and ultimately target and individually adapt treatment for patients in the future. |
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Dr Marlies Wagner is Professor of Neuroradiology at Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Head of Neuroradiology at the Medical Centre for Radiology/ Neuroradiology at Bethanien Hospital in Frankfurt. Her research interests include MR imaging of stroke, epilepsy and neuro-oncology, she maintains a special interest in perfusion and oxygen MR imaging. |
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Prof Susan Bookheimer is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and the Joaquin Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the UCLA School of Medicine, USA. Her research is focused on developing brain imaging techniques in the fields of Alzheimer’s disease, autism, ADHD, neuro-oncology and epilepsy. Prof Bookheimer was Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in 2012-2013 and received the Glass Brain lifetime achievement award in 2018. |
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Associate Prof Natalie Voets is the founder and director of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course. She is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (FMRIB-OxCIN) and an Awake Intraoperative Neurosurgery Technician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her primary interests include neurosurgical planning, especially fMRI and diffusion tractography to maximise quality of life outcomes in patients with drug resistant epilepsy and glioma. |
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Dr Ben Seymour is a Consultant Neurologist at Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Neuroscientist at the University of Oxford. His primary research interests are to understand the computational and systems neuroscience of pain by using a combination of theoretical and experimental methods. The aim is to develop new technology-based therapies for treating pain in clinical populations. |
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Prof Sallie Baxendale is a Consultant Neuropsychologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and UCL's Institute of Neurology. She has over three decades of clinical experience working with people with epilepsy in London and Oxford and is the current chair of the International League Against Epilepsy Diagnostic Methods Commission. She specialises in neuropsychological assessment of cognitive and behavioural difficulties in epilepsy and non-pharmacological interventions for the condition. |
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Dr Amy Howard is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford (FMRIB-OxCIN). Her research explores ways to combine complementary data from both microscopy and diffusion MRI, to both validate and drive biophysical modelling of brain tissue microstructure. |
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Dr Pieter Pretorius is a Consultant Neuroradiologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. His clinical role involves diagnostic neuroradiology, specifically the interpretation of MRI and CT scans of the brain, spine, skull base and head and neck in adults and children. Dr Pretorius has a particular interest in neuro-oncological imaging and his research interests lie in the translation of neuroimaging advances to clinical care. |
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Dr Fintan Sheerin is a Neuroradiology Consultant and the Neuroradiology Clinical Lead at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. As a diagnostic Neuroradiologist, he specialises in the interpretation of and reporting of MRI, CT and US scans of the brain, spin, skull base, head and neck. He has particular interests in in craniofacial, head and neck oncology, stroke and skull-based imaging. He also performs US and CT guided biopsies and injections of the heck and neck and spine. |
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Dr Andrea Bernasconi is a Neurologist and Epileptologist who specialises in Neuroimaging of Epilepsy. As Professor of Neurology, he co-directs along with Prof. Neda Bernasconi the Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Lab (NOEL) at the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University, Canada). The overall goal of their research is to demonstrate that advanced MRI techniques lead to major improvements in the management and quality of care of patients with epilepsy who are candidates for surgical treatment. |
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Dr Andreas Bartsch is a Consultant Neuroradiologist. He is affiliated with the University of Heidelberg, Wuerzburg, Germany as well as with the University of Oxford FMRIB-OxCIN and co-organized and lectured at several FSL and FreeSurfer courses, ISMRM, ESMRMB and OHBM meetings. His particular interest is in using functional MRI and tractography for pre-surgical planning. |
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Dr Godwin Ogbole is Associate Professor of Radiology and Consultant Neuroradiologist at University College Hospital of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interest and focus are Brain and Spine Imaging, with particular interest in Stroke, Dementia and Epilepsy. He is also passionate about developing innovative ways to bring imaging facilities closer to patients for diagnosis and intervention in African states and communities. His goal is to create an infrastructure that enables doctors to provide the best and most timely care through accurate imaging diagnoses at their disposal at all times. |
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Prof Mark Jenkinson is the co-director of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course. He is a non-clinical scientist and Professor of Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford and the University of Adelaide. Prof Jenkinson’s research involves multimodal modelling of populations to describe disease processes and investigating structural segmentation and analysis of brain anatomy and pathology and their relationship with disease. He has coordinated, lectured and tutored on the OxCIN MRI graduate program and the international FMRIB Software Library (FSL) course. |
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Associate Prof Saad Jbabdi is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. His involves using diffusion weighted imaging to further our understanding of the structural and functional organisation of the brain at a systems level. Prof Jbabdi teaches on the OxCIN MRI graduate program, as well as undergraduate maths and engineering. |
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Associate Prof Natalie Voets is the founder and director of the Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course. She is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (FMRIB-OxCIN) and an Awake Intraoperative Neurosurgery Technician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Her primary interests include neurosurgical planning, especially fMRI and diffusion tractography to maximise quality of life outcomes in patients with drug resistant epilepsy and glioma. |
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Associate Prof Tom Okell is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford (FMRIB-OxCIN). His research focusses on the development of MRI methods to visualise blood flow through the brain and the resulting perfusion of brain tissue. Prof Okell is the director of the OxCIN MRI graduate program and lectures and tutors in the physics module. |
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Dr Will Clarke is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford (FMRIB-OxCIN). He works within both the physiological neuroimaging group and magnetic resonance physics group at OxCIN. His research focusses on methods development for magnetic resonance spectroscopy, to quantify the chemical kinetics of a large number of metabolites in the human brain. |
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Dr Andreas Bartsch is a Consultant Neuroradiologist. He is affiliated with the University of Heidelberg, Wuerzburg, Germany as well as with the University of Oxford FMRIB-OxCIN and co-organized and lectured at several FSL and FreeSurfer courses, ISMRM, ESMRMB and OHBM meetings. His particular interest is in using functional MRI and tractography for pre-surgical planning. |
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Dr Andrea Bernasconi is a Neurologist and Epileptologist who specialises in Neuroimaging of Epilepsy. As Professor of Neurology, he co-directs along with Prof. Neda Bernasconi the Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Lab (NOEL) at the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University, Canada). The overall goal of their research is to demonstrate that advanced MRI techniques lead to major improvements in the management and quality of care of patients with epilepsy who are candidates for surgical treatment. |
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Prof Susan Bookheimer is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and the Joaquin Fuster Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the UCLA School of Medicine, USA. Her research is focused on developing brain imaging techniques in the fields of Alzheimer’s disease, autism, ADHD, neuro-oncology and epilepsy. Prof Bookheimer was Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in 2012-2013 and received the Glass Brain lifetime achievement award in 2018. |
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Professor Alex Green is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on exploring the neurocircuitry underlying autonomic function and pain in humans undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Prof Green is currently president of the British Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (BSSFN). |
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Prof Puneet Plaha is a Consultant Neuro-oncology Surgeon at OUH NHS Foundation Trust, with a specialist interest in brain tumours. Prof Plaha is the Clinical Lead for the Oxford Brain and Spine MDT and Neuro-oncology Lead for Thames Valley. His research focusses on using minimally invasive endoscopic techniques to resect brain tumours and advanced imaging technologies to develop individually-tailored treatment for brain tumours. He is Co-Chief Investigator for FUTURE-GB (FUncTional and Ultrasound guided REsection of GlioBlastoma), a NIHR funded, multicentre, intraoperative, randomised controlled trial assessing the use of ultrasound and diffusion tractography in glioblastoma surgery. |
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Dr Victoria Young is a Consultant Interventional Neuroradiologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. She has a specialist interest in stroke and vascular disease. Dr Young has been involved in medical teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as teaching on FRCR preparation courses and has a postgraduate certificate in medical education. |
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Dr Luke Dixon is a Consultant Neuroradiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. His research interests include imaging in vasculopathy and neuro-oncology with particular interests in intraoperative ultrasound guided brain tumour surgery as well as applications of machine learning and computer vision. |
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Mr Tim Lawrence is a Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon and a Craniofacial Surgeon who completed his training in Oxford followed by a fellowship in paediatric neurosurgery and craniofacial surgery. His research interest is trauma and he completed his DPhil investigating the role of imaging biomarkers in acute traumatic brain injury. |
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Prof Llewellyn Padayachy is a Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Chief Specialist and Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pretoria. He is Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital and Hamilton Naki Scholar. His specialist interest is in minimally invasive surgical techniques for brain tumours and hydrocephalus and non-invasive diagnostics techniques, which include the use of ultrasound as a safe, radiation-free modality to acquire vital information on the brain. |
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Prof Giovanna Zamboni is a neurologist with clinical and research expertise in the field of dementia, cognition and neuroimaging. She is currently associate professor of neurology at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy after having worked for several years at the University of Oxford as Clinical Research Fellow, where she also obtained her DPhil. Her research focuses on using neuroimaging to improve assessment, early diagnosis and prevention of cognitive decline in individuals with neurodegenerative dementias. She also has a special interest in the behavioural symptoms of dementia and has been recently awarded an ERC grant to explore mechanisms underlying anosognosia and delusions in neurodegenerative diseases. |
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Dr Ludovica Griffanti is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, working within the MRI analysis group and translational neuroimaging group at OxCIN. Her research involves developing imaging analysis tools with the aim to translate research knowledge and quantitative measurements from brain MRI in clinical settings. Dr. Griffanti is involved in post-graduate supervision and in teaching, both within the University of Oxford and at the international FMRIB Software Library (FSL) course. She is the module coordinator for Section E: Brain Imaging in Psychiatry and Neurodegeneration. |
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Dr Pieter Pretorius is a Consultant Neuroradiologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust. His clinical role involves diagnostic neuroradiology, specifically the interpretation of MRI and CT scans of the brain, spine, skull base and head and neck in adults and children. Dr Pretorius has a particular interest in neuro-oncological imaging and his research interests lie in the translation of neuroimaging advances to clinical care. |
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Dr Johannes Klein is Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and Consultant Neurologist at OUH NHS Foundation Trust, with a special interest in movement disorders and neurodegenerative disease. His research work centres on advanced, non-invasive imaging techniques to develop imaging markers for Parkinson’s and related disorders. The aim is to both predict and detect disease in its earliest stages, to track disease-related changes of brain structure and function and ultimately target and individually adapt treatment for patients in the future. |
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Prof Catherine Harmer is the director of the Psychopharmacology and Emotional Research Lab (PERL) based at the University Department of Psychiatry in Oxford. Her multi-disciplinary team includes cognitive neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists and psychologists. Her research focuses on the psychological mechanisms of antidepressant drug action with conventional and novel candidate treatments. This is done by applying an experimental medicine approach, focused on neurocognitive measures of emotional processing in both healthy volunteers and patient samples. |
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Dr Graham Blackman is a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and a Psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He completed his PhD in Psychosis research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings’ College London. Dr Blackman has a particular interest in the clinical applications of neuroimaging in patients presenting with psychosis, including the detection of secondary (“organic”) causes. |
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