The members of the current MQIR faculty team -- Dr. Sharmila Majumdar, Dr. Thomas Link, Dr. Thomas Lang, Dr. Xiaojuan Li, and Dr. Galateia Kazakia -- have diverse backgrounds and a wide range of expertise.

Sharmila Majumdar, Ph.D., focuses on developing quantitative imaging and imageprocessing techniques to study the morphology and function of the musculoskeletal system. In addition to extensive collaborations with the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medicine and Rheumatalogy at UCSF, she collaborates with UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, as well as with industry. She is actively involved in graduate education in the UCSF and UC Berkeley Bioengineering Graduate Group and alsos erves as an advisor to students in the UC Berkeley Department of Bioengineering undergraduate program.

Majumdar/Link Lab

Thomas Link, M.D.
Professor in Residence, UCSF Department of Radiology
MQIR Clinical Director and MQIR Faculty
415-353-2450 x8940
thomas.link@radiology.ucsf.edu

Thomas M. Link, M.D., is a clinical musculoskeletal radiologist with a focus on musculoskeletal translational research. His research centers on the development of new imaging techniques to characterize and quantify musculoskeletal pathology, in particular in osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. He is also an expert in high field magnetic resonance imaging at 3 Tesla for bone and cartilage imaging as well as new diagnostic techniques in osteoporosis imaging. Dr. Link is a Professor of the Technische Universitaet of Munich in Germany and has a number ofi nternational research affiliations, in particular to research institutions in Germany (Munich) and Austria (Salzburg and Vienna). He also plays an active role in musculoskeletal imaging in Europe. In addition to his research position he is the Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging at the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF.

Majumdar/Link Lab

Thomas Lang, Ph.D.
Professor in Residence, UCSF Department of Radiology
MQIR Faculty
415-353-4552
thomas.lang@radiology.ucsf.edu

Thomas Lang, Ph.D., is a Professor in Residence in the UCSF Department of Radiology and the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Graduate Group. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1990. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Bruce Hasegawa in the UCSF Department of Radiology, Dr. Lang worked as a Nuclear Medicine Physicist at ADAC Laboratories in Milpitas, Calif. Dr. Lang joined the UCSF faculty as an Assistant Adjunct Professor in 1994. As a faculty member at UCSF, Dr. Lang's core interest is the use of quantitative computed technology and other clinically available imaging modalities in the study of human musculoskeletal biology. His group is currently supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute and the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to his position at UCSF, he is also Leader of the Musculoskeletal Alterations Team at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, where he coordinates a research team comprising investigators from eight institutions.

Lang Lab

Xiaojuan Li, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence, UCSF Department of Radiology
MQIR Faculty
415-353-4909
xiaojuan.li@radiology.ucsf.edu

Xiaojuan Li, Ph.D., obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 1999, and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UCSF in 2003. Her current research is focused on technique development and clinical evaluation of high field magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques to assess osteoarthritis-related cartilage and bone injuries, as well as knee injuries such as anterior cruciateligament tears. In particular, she is interested in developing functional imaging (such as T1rho mapping) for detecting early cartilage degeneration. Her research interests also include detecting vertebral disc degeneration in diseases such as low backpain, as well as muscle lipid and body fat evaluation using in vivo magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Li Lab

Galateia Kazakia, Ph.D., joined the UCSF faculty as Assistant Professor in Residence in 2009. Dr. Kazakia received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1995. After working as a Biomechanical Design Engineer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, she joined the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Lab at UC Berkeley and earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (major fields: Bioengineering & Materials) in 2004. Dr. Kazakia’s main research interest is the characterization of bone structure and composition in osteoporosis and other diseases using both ex vivo and in vivo high resolution imaging techniques. Specifically, she is developing techniques in micro computed tomography (microCT), high resolution peripheral quantitative CT (HR-pQCT), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) imaging, and 3D histology for the assessment of bone quality.

ALUMNI

Sven Prevrhal, Ph.D.

Prevrhal Lab

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