Directory

This Directory includes Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni selectable by category, search or alphabetical by last name. Over 110 students have graduated from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (25+ PhD, 50+ MS, 25+ Certificate). The diversity of careers available to DBMI alumnus is evident in their biographies. Many of our graduates are teaching and performing research in academic institutions, such as Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University, and New York University while others have entered private industry with companies such as Cerner Corporation and Boston Scientific; some have positions in government agencies, such as the NIH and AHRQ, while others are at major medical centers, serving in roles such as Chief Medical Information Officer. We maintain a database of the career paths of our graduates. If you are an alumnus, please contact us if you would like to submit or update information!

Ashok Panigrahy

Work Phone: 412-692-5510 Work Fax: 412-864-8622
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Biography

Research Interests:
  • In Vivo Spectroscopy of Low Grade Tumors in Pediatrics Fund-Radiology
  • Metabolic profiling of diffuse intrinsic brain stem glioma in pediatrics
  • Advanced MR Imaging of Perinatal White Matter Injury
  • Quantitative Proton MR Spectroscopy of Perinatal White Matter Injury: Correlation with Neurodevelopmental Outcome, Axonal Injury and Cytokine Inflammation
  • Neonatal Brain Injury: evaluation with advanced MR techniques
    • Advanced MR imaging of pediatric brain tumors
    • Fetal MR imaging
Radiologist-In-Chief, Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Vice Chair of Clinical and Translational Imaging Research and Associate Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Director, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, MR/CT Imaging