Research Activities Pursued by Faculty and Senior Members (Alphabetical Order)
	There are more than 70 dedicated and talented technical, scientific, and administrative staff members who are supporting the research and development activities of the following faculty and senior managers. Information on these individual members can be found at different parts of our web site.
	Adil Alaoui, M.S. , Chief Engineer, leads the development and implementation of information technology (IT) programs and center-wide technical infrastructure to support the research and production projects conducted at the ISIS Center . His research interests include the development of IT capabilities, information security, information sharing, and the design and implementation of open-source software development environments for Medical Informatics.
	Filip Banovac , M.D., the clinical director of the ISIS Center , is an interventional radiologist who specializes in technology development for precision-guided, minimally invasive radiological procedures. His principal focus is the clinical application of image guidance for precision biopsy of small tumors and ablation therapies, such as radiofrequency ablation of liver and lung tumors.
	Craig Carignan, ScD, is developing robotic devices for rehabilitation in partnership with the University Maryland and the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH). His team designed and built a robotic arm exoskeleton for physical therapy of shoulder, and he is integrating virtual reality technology for rehabilitation of stroke patients over the Internet using a commercial robot. He is also working with NRH on developing an overhead body-weight support system for gait retraining at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
	Kevin Cleary , Ph.D., Director of the ISIS Center, leads a research group that develops novel image-guided and robotic systems for both precision instrument placement and rehabilitation. His group integrates this state of the art technology through precision engineering, clinical collaborations, and open-source software and interface design. He is an internationally recognized leader in the open-source software movement, and he serves on program committees for several related conferences.
	Matthew Freedman , M.D., M.B.A., a radiologist with the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and a long-time affiliate of ISIS Center , conducts research aimed at the early detection of lung, pancreatic, and breast cancer. He is active in multi-center studies of screening for lung cancer with chest radiographs and CT. Additionally, he is using nanotechnology-based molecular imaging methods for the early detection of pancreatic cancer and for classification of small lung nodules into likely benign or malignant groups.  He studies the effectiveness of computer-aided systems in the early detection of lung cancer and uses MRI to study the effect of alcohol and diet on the development of breast cancer.   Gary Gilbert, PhD, expert in medical robotics systems, he is overseeing the development of various robotic technology and autonomous vehicle for patient monitoring, casualty extraction and rapid transport in the combat environment.
	David Hartley , Ph.D., M.P. H . , who joined the ISIS Center in 2007, is an expert in infectious disease modeling. He leads a diverse team that supports the Biosurveillance research and development program. The team concentrates on linguistics, data mining, decision science, data sharing technology, global information systems, and information representation. Dr. Hartley's other research interests include mathematical epidemiology, the ecology of infectious disease, antibiotic resistant infections, food supply safety, and multiple topics in bioterrorism defense.
	Betty Levine , M.S., an expert in eHealth, telemedicine, and teleradiology, leads an Internet-based diabetes management program that involves gestational diabetes patients at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda , Maryland and adult patients with Types 1 and 2 diabetes in Native American communities across the county. She has also led the development of MyCareTeam, an Internet-based diabetes management system that has been licensed to a commercial partner, MyCareTeam Inc. Her recent interests include the development of personal health records for chronic disease management, as well as the development and implementation of tools for the management of multi-center clinical trials.
	Shih-Ching Bendict Lo, Ph.D. , an expert in data compression and computer-aided diagnosis, conducts research on computer-aided diagnosis of chest images and mammograms. His recent research success includes content-based image retrieval for breast cancer and lung cancer. He is also actively developing a new imaging technology that uses attenuation-reflection C-mode ultrasound to detect abnormalities in soft tissues and bone surfaces especially for military and civilian applications.
	Noele P. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dr. Nelson holds an M.D., specialty in Pediatrics, Ph.D. in Epidemiology, M.P.H. and B.A. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She engaged in protein chemistry and transcriptional profiling research projects for six years after receiving her bachelor’s. In graduate school she focused on infectious disease in the immunocomprised host, while she gained skills in international health and preventive medicine as a physician. She currently studies post-transplant infections in pediatric patients at Georgetown University Hospital and investigates infectious disease threats to human, animal, and plant health at the Division of Biodefense.
	Kenneth H. Wong, Ph.D., a biomedical engineering expert, develops nuclear medicine imaging and positron emission tomography (PET) systems for image-guided interventions in the operating rooms. He also studies clinical problems associated with chronic pressure and forces on the spinal cord, as well as organ motion tracking, for CyberKnife, a state-of-the-art robotic radiosurgery system.
	Ziv Yaniv, Ph.D. , a computer scientist, develops methods for addressing organ and respiratory motion during image acquisition for computer-assisted procedures. His research activities include modeling organ and respiratory motion and creating computer-assisted intervention systems based on these models. He is also involved in the development of the open-source Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK).