The Astronomical Medicine Team

The Astronomical Medicine (AM) Project brings together researchers from medical imaging and astronomy, along with both national and international collaborators, to combine their knowledge and advance the state-of-the-art in both disciplines. The goal of the project is to extend the state of the art of complex data understanding in these two very different fields using a broad-based approach to data exploration and analysis. For more information, please see our research background and project pages.

Investigators

Alyssa Goodman Professor of Astronomy Harvard University agoodman -at- cfa.harvard.edu 617-495-9278

Michelle Borkin Ph.D. Candidate, Applied Physics School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University michelle_borkin -at- harvard.edu

Collaborators

	Hector Arce Assistant Professor of Astronomy Yale University hector.arce -at- yale.edu		Charles Feldman Lecturer on Medicine, Harvard Medical School Senior Researcher, Cardiovascular Division Brigham and Women's Hospital cfeldman -at- partners.org
	Nick Holliman Senior Lecturer School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University (UK) N.S.Holliman -at- durham.ac.uk		Stella Offner NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics soffner -at- cfa.harvard.edu
	Hanspeter Pfister Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University pfister -at- seas.harvard.edu		Jaime Pineda Postdoctoral Fellow ESO & University of Manchester (UK) jaime.pineda -at- manchester.ac.uk
	Erik Rosolowsky Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia at Okanagan erik.rosolowsky -at- ubc.ca

The Original Astronomical Medicine Team

The original Astronomical Medicine Team (left to right): Jens Kauffmann, Alyssa Goodman, Michael Halle, Douglas Alan, Michelle Borkin (and Ron Kikinis, not pictured).

The Astronomical Medicine (AM) Project was formed in 2005 as the pilot project of the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard. The original team, pictured above, brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from astronomy, medical imaging, and computer science in order to combine their knowledge and advance the state-of-the-art in both medical imaging and astronomy. The project, now based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, continues to collaborate across disciplines and investigate new visualization techniques applicable to astronomy and medicine.

	Alyssa Goodman Professor of Astronomy Harvard University agoodman -at- cfa.harvard.edu 617-495-9278		Michelle Borkin Ph.D. Candidate, Applied Physics School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University michelle_borkin -at- harvard.edu
	Michael Halle Former Astronomical Medicine Project Manager Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital Instructor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School michael_halle -at- harvard.edu 617-384-8245		Jens Kauffmann Postdoctoral Astronomer Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) jens.kauffmann -at- jpl.nasa.gov
	Ron Kikinis Director of the Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School kikinis -at- bwh.harvard.edu 617-732-7389		Douglas Alan Senior Scientific Software Engineer doug -at- alum.mit.edu