People

Lab Personnel | Collaborators | Alumni

Lab Personnel

Principal Investigator:

Nimmi Ramanujam
email: nimmi@duke.edu

Research Analysts:

Marlee Junker
email: marlee.junker@duke.edu

Associates in Research:

Lisa Richards
email: lmr25@duke.edu

Post-Doctoral Researchers:

Bing Yu
email: bing.yu@duke.edu

Karthik Vishwanath
email: kvh1@duke.edu

J. Quincy Brown
email: quincy.brown@duke.edu

Graduate Students:

Stacy Millon
email: stacy.millon@duke.edu

Stephanie Kennedy
email: stephanie.kennedy@duke.edu

Justin Lo
email: justin.lo@duke.edu

Vivide Chang
email: vivide.chang@duke.edu

Torre Bydlon
email: torre.bydlon@duke.edu

Janelle Bender
email: jeb9@duke.edu

Sara Salahi
email: sara.salahi@duke.edu

Henry Fu
email: henry.fu@duke.edu

Undergraduate Students:

Daniel Klein
email: daniel.h.klein@duke.edu

Jessica Munn
email: jessica.munn@duke.edu

Collaborators
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Duke University:

Peter Cartwright
Email: cartw001@mc.duke.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Squamous epithelial pre-cancer detection

Victoria Seewaldt
Email:seewa001@mc.duke.edu

• Fluorescence imaging of NADH
  

Mark Dewhirst
Email: dewhirst@radonc.duke.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Breast therapeutic assessment
• Miniature and molecular technologies

Jay Baker
Email: jay.baker@duke.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Optically guided breast biopsy

Joseph Geradts
Email: joseph.geradts@duke.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Breast margin assessment
• Optically guided breast biopsy

Lee Wilke
Email: wilke031@mc.duke.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Breast margin assessment
• Optically guided breast biopsy

Kim Blackwell
Email: black034@mc.duke.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Breast therapeutic assessment

University of Wisconsin, Madison:

Elizabeth Burnside
Email: bburnside@mail.radiology.wisc.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Optically guided breast biopsy
  

John White
Email: jwhite1@wisc.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Fluorescence imaging of NADH
  

Tom Kuech
Email: kuech@engr.wisc.edu
Collaborative Projects:

• Miniature technologies

Alumni and Previous Lab Members
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Changfang Zhu
Degree: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Project: Optically Guided Breast Biopsy
Current Position: Boston Scientific

Quan Liu
Degree: Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Project: Depth-resolved optical spectroscopy techniques for epithelial pre-cancer detection
Current Position: Postdoctoral research associate, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (Prof. Tuan Vo-Dinh)

Greg Palmer
Degree: Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests: Breast Cancer Detection and Lifetime Imaging
Current Position: Post Doctoral Researcher, Duke University

Emily Spataro
Degree: B.S., Biomedical Engineering
Research Project: Breast Margin Assessment

Christine M McMahon
Degree: B.S., Biomedical Engineering
Research Project: Molecular Imaging

Melissa C Skala
Degree: PhD Biomedical Engineering
Institution: Duke University
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (Prof. Joseph Izatt)
email: melissa.skala@duke.edu

Debra White

Al-Hafeez Dhalla

Lauren Tochacek

Zhiyu Liu
Degree: M.S. Biomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Project: Transabdominal, near-infrared fetal oximetry
Current Position:

Crystal Marshek
Degree: B.S. Biomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Project: Optical spectroscopy of the hamster cheek pouch of oral carcinogenesis
Current Position: Clinical Data Specialist, Guidant Technologies

Kristin Vrotsos
Degree: B.S. Zoology
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Project: Optical spectroscopy of the hamster cheek pouch of oral carcinogenesis
Current Position: Medical Student, Medical College of Milwaukee

Carmalyn Lubawy
Degree: M.S., Biomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madision
Research Project: Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy Guided Breast Needle Biopsy
Current Position: Senior Systems Engineer, Nellcor

Willy Chen
Degree: Ph.DBiomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madision
Current Position: Research Associate, ZS Associates

Kathy Roldan-Perez
Degree: M.S., Biomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madision
Current Position: Structures Specialist I, Infotech Aerospace Services, Inc

Kristin Riching
Degree: B.S., Biomedical Engineering
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madision
Research Project: Optics and Computational Instrumentation
Current Position: Ph.D student at UW-Madison under Patti Keely