The Laura Chalk Rowles Lectureship in Dementia: Hierarchical Structure of the Brain’s Large-scale Networks
Qolamreza ‘Ray’ Razlighi, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience Director, Quantitative Neuroimaging Laboratory Imaging Director, Brain Health Imaging Institute Weill Cornell Medicine, Dept. of Radiology, New York, NY
Dr. Ray Razlighi is Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is the director of the Quantitative Neuroimaging Laboratory () and the imaging director of the Brain Health Imaging institute (). He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Signal and Image Processing from the University of Texas. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2013 after completing two postdoctoral fellowships at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical School. His research focus is on functional brain imaging to understand how brain networks function and interact to execute complex tasks. He has authored over 80 scientific articles. He is currently as associate editor for Brain Connectivity and Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and a member of numerous research community included but not limited to: Society for Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, and IEEE. Approximately 25 undergraduate student, 5 Ph.D. students, and 10 postdoctoral fellows have gained training in his laboratory. He is the recipient of numerous research awards from Columbia University research initiatives in science and engineering (RISE), Taub Institute Alzheimer's disease research center (ADRC), and Irving Institute integrating special populations (ISP). In addition, he is a recipient of numerous federal funding awards (K01, and R01) and Subaward PI for more than 4 R01, and co-investigator on more than 5 R01 projects mainly through National Institute on Aging and National Institute of Mental Health.
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