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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
ABC Lab

Lab Members

Meet the members of the ABC Lab at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.

 

Principal Investigator

Farzaneh Sorond, MD, PhD

Farzaneh Sorond, MD, PhD

Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs
Dean Richard H. Young and Ellen Stearns Young Professor
Professor, Neurology (Stroke and Vascular Neurology), Neurology (Neurocritical Care)

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Data Analysis

Mohammad Jamshidi, PhD

Mohammad Jamshidi, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Zach Lindsey, PhD

Zach Lindsey, PhD

Research Data Analyst Lead

Aedan Reid

Aedan Reid

Research Technologist

Shahin Yaghoobi, MD

Shahin Yaghoobi, MD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Rundi Z., MS

Rundi Z., MS

Research Specialist

Research Assistants

Brigid Ferguson

Brigid Ferguson

Isabella Flerlage

Isabella Flerlage

Keion Heydarpour

Keion Heydarpour

A. Romanowski

A. Romanowski

Rayan Virani

Rayan Virani

Administration

Vivian Chiao

Vivian Chiao

Program Assistant

Rachel Lewandowski

Rachel Lewandowski

Lab Manager

Consultants

Can Ozan Tan

Can Ozan Tan

Alumni

Lisanne Jenkins, PhD

Lisanne Jenkins, PhD

lisanne.jenkins( at )northwestern.edu

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Jenkins' Research

I am a behavioral neuroscientist who uses magnetic resonance imaging to study the brain as it relates to behavior. My research interest is in affective dysfunction across a wide variety of neurological and psychiatric populations.

I obtained my PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia which examined neuroanatomical correlates of emotional, social and personality changes following neurosurgery to the prefrontal cortex.

My role in the ABC lab is to identify neuroimaging biomarkers of cardiovascular risk and functional decline in adults at midlife at risk for cardiovascular disease as part of the longitudinal CARDIA study.

I am a NARSAD Young Investigator Award recipient, for which I am collecting multimodal MRI data with a Human Connectome Project protocol to predict relapse in individuals with major depressive and bipolar disorder. I am also involved in a project studying the impact of perinatal exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and antiretroviral therapy on structural brain changes in adolescents who did not acquire HIV.

I have published studies using a lesion-deficit analysis, task-based functional MRI (fMRI), resting state functional connectivity, subcortical morphology and a transdiagnostic meta-analysis of white matter changes in emotional disorders.

Simin Mahinrad, MD, PhD

Simin Mahinrad, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

simin.rad( at )northwestern.edu

Mahinrad's Research

My research expertise spans clinical epidemiology, population based science and neuropathology. Specifically, my work focuses on investigating the role of vascular pathologies in development and progression of brain aging; and the complexities of the heart-brain connection across human aging.

I obtained my PhD from Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, which focused on exploring the role of subclinical cardiac biomarkers in development of cognitive impairment and functional decline in older adults.

The findings of my research have been published in high impact international journals such as Circulation, Neurology and Stroke. See the full list of my publications.

As a postdoctoral fellow in ABC Lab, I am expanding my line of research to a broader spectrum of aging, including young and middle-age adults, to explore early markers of cerebrovascular damage and their relation to clinical and brain MRI outcomes as part of the CARDIA study.

I also collaborate with the department of Radiology to examine the role of midlife cerebrovascular hemodynamics through application of novel MR techniques such as 4D flow MRI.

Andrew Milstead

Andrew Milstead

Research Assistant

andrew.milstead( at )northwestern.edu

Milstead's Bio

My name is Andrew, and I come from Knoxville, Tennessee. I attended the University of Tennessee for both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering.

After graduating, I went to work for a non-profit named Remote Area Medical, which is dedicated to providing dental, medical and vision care to underserved populations around the U.S. and globally.

I moved to Chicago at the start of 2019 and began to work in the cerebrovascular lab of Farzeneh Sorond, MD, PhD in April.  I already find myself involved in several studies, and I look forward to continuing the work of this lab.