University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Accolades

Dr. Reeder honored with ISMRM Gold Medal Award

Dr. Scott Reeder was awarded the 2026 Gold Medal award by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. The Gold Medal is the highest award given by the ISMRM. Dr. Reeder was honored for major contributions in developing and clinically translating advanced MR imaging technologies that are focused on some of the most important …

ISMRM 2025 Awards

Two abstracts from the team were selected this year for cum laude awards, both led by Garrett. Congratulations! Fullerton GC, Tamada D, Muslu Y, Hernando D, Reeder SB. Saturation Recovery Chemical Shift-Encoded T1 Mapping in the Liver. Oral Scientific Session. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. May 14, …

Dr. Diego Hernando joins ranks of ISMRM Fellows of the Society

Diego was named a Senior Fellow at this year’s ISMRM annual meeting for his contributions to quantitative MRI biomarkers of the abdomen and liver. This distinction is conferred on those who have made a significant and substantial contribution to research in a field within ISMRM’s purposes, who have contributed in a significant manner to the …

Dr. Julius Heidenreich named 2025 ISMRM Junior Fellow

Julius was named a Junior Fellow at this year’s ISMRM annual meeting. The ISMRM Junior Fellow Program was established to recognize outstanding researchers at an early stage in their careers, with an established and long-term commitment to the ISMRM.

Congratulation to Dr. Yavuz Muslu!

Yavuz has successfully defended his dissertation on novel T1-mapping and T1-weighted methods! His work addresses a number of limitations with quantitative imaging of diffuse liver disease, and imaging for the detection and classification of lesions. Keep an eye out for more papers from the group where these are evaluated! Yavuz will be heading to GE …

Congratulations Dr. Collin Buelo!

Congratulations Collin for successfully defending his PhD dissertation! Collin has been a wonderful group member, contributing far beyond his own projects. We wish him the best of luck at GE Healthcare, where he’ll be a MRI Scientist located at Mayo!  

Sheena Chu wins the Roger A. Bauman, MD Award for best student paper!

Sheena Chu won the Roger A. Bauman, MD Award for best student paper at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) 2024 annual meeting for her work on utilization: Chu SY, Reeder SB, Garrett JW. Advanced Analytics Tools Guide Clinical MRI Protocol Optimization and Quantify Value. Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine Annual Meeting. …

Dr. Simchick wins First Place Poster Award at the 2024 ISMRM IVIM Workshop!

Dr. Greg Simchick won the First Place Poster Award at the 2024 ISMRM Workshop on Moving Forward with Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Modeling for Diffusion-Weighted MRI: An Attempt at Consensus in Erlangen, Germany for his work on Optimized 3D (b-M1-TE) Data Acquisition for Repeatable IVIM and R2 Quantification in the Liver.  

Congratulations to Dr. Geng!

Congratulations to Dr. Ruiqi Geng for defending her dissertation and completing all requirements for her PhD! We miss Ruiqi but wish her the best as she heads off to join Google.     You can read about some of work in the papers she has authored, with more on the way: Geng R, Buelo CJ, …

LIRP and QIML at ISMRM 2023 in Toronto

LIRP and QIML were both well-represented at the 2023 ISMRM meeting in Toronto. Here are some highlights: In addition to the secret sessions put on by Thekla, Ruiqi making it to the final round of the Young Investigator Award, and Rianne’s selection as an ISMRM Junior Fellow, Sheena’s abstract on screening approaches to reduce MRI …