Collaborator Members

Chris Brace, PhD

Christopher Lee Brace currently works in the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His interests include interventional oncology, bioelectromagnetics and applications of electromagnetics in medicine, medical imaging and numerical simulation.…

Clifford S. Cho, MD

Dr. Clifford S. Cho is the C. Gardner Child Professor of Surgery in the Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery at Michigan Medicine.Dr. Cho is an Honors graduate of Brown University and AOA graduate…

Brian Fowlkes, PhD

J. Brian Fowlkes, PhD is Professor of Radiology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Basic Radiological Sciences Division in the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan.Dr. Fowlkes received his B.S.…

Jen Frank, CVT

Jen is a certified veterinary technician who leads animal care for the Abdominal Image-Guided Interventions Laboratory. She has worked with a multitude of species and continues to be active in research across labs at UW-Madison.…

Timothy Hacker, PhD

Tim Hacker completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996 in Exercise Physiology under the direction of A. James Liedtke developing swine models of cardiac hibernation and stunning. Next, he joined the faculty…

Timothy Hall, PhD

Timothy L. Hall received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2007. He is one of the original developers of histotripsy ultrasound therapy. His major research interests are in…

Franca Meloni, MD

Dr M Franca Meloni is an interventional radiologist at the “Casa di Cura Igea” in Milan, Italy. Her research interests include ablation therapies in liver and kidney cancers and the use of ultrasound with contrast…

Mishal Mendiratta-Lala, MD

Dr. Mishal Mendiratta-Lala is a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan and board certified radiologist. She received her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Daniel Van Der Wiede, PhD

Daniel van der Weide is a pioneer in terahertz generation and detection using integrated circuits, having designed, fabricated and measured the shortest pulses on record using these circuits in 1994, with comparable results at world-record…

Tomy Varghese, PhD

My current research deals with the development of Elastography. Elastography is rapidly developing into a new ultrasonic imaging modality, capable of producing images of internal strain or tissue elasticity. Elastography is a method for imaging…

Zhen Xu, PhD

Dr. Xu’s research focuses on developing new ultrasound techniques for treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurological diseases. She and her colleagues have developed histotripsy, an ultrasound ablation technique via controlled cavitation. Histotripsy is the…

Xiaofei Zhang, MD, PhD

Dr. Zhang received his medical degree from the Xinxiang Medical College in Henan Province, China, and went on to complete an M.S. degree in Neuropathophysiology at the Capital University of Medical Sciences in Beijing. He…