Meet the Team
At BMEII, our team of medical experts research and develop the most advanced methods available to treat a wide range of patients.
Our Directors
Zahi A. Fayad, PhD
Director, BMEII
Director, Cardiovascular Imaging
Priti Balchandani, PhD
Associate Director, BMEII
Director, Neuroimaging
Bachir Taouli, MD
Director, Cancer and Body Imaging
Hayit Greenspan, PhD
Co-Director, AIET
Alan Seifert, PhD
Director, Scientific Imaging Core
Co-Director, AIET
Abraham Teunissen, PhD
Co-Director, Nanomedicine
Mandy van Leent, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Nanomedicine
Christopher Cannistraci, MS
Director, Research Operations
Director, Core Staff
Juan Gilberto Aguinaldo, MD, CCRP
Director, Clinical Research Program
Catherine Ma, MPH
Director, Administration
Our Teams
BMEII Affiliated and Adjunct Faculty
BMEII Affiliated Faculty
Kevin Costa, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
Bradley N. Delman, MD, MS
Professor of Radiology
Vice-Chairman for Quality & Clinical Research
Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
Physician-in-Chief, The Mount Sinai Hospital
President, Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital
Director, National Center for Cardiovascular Investigation (CNIC), Spain
Angelo Gaitas, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Munir Ghesani, MD
Chief, Nuclear Medicine
Senior Faculty
Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
Nasrin Ghesani, MBBS
Nuclear Medicine
Senior Faculty
Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
Julius “Trey” Hedden, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, Neuroimaging and Biomarker Research in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
James Iatridis, PhD
Director, Spine Research Program
Professor & Vice Chair of Research of Orthopedics
Charbel Ishak MD, MBA, DABR
Chairman of Radiology
Radiation Safety Officer (RSO)
BronxCare Hospital Center
Professor
Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Yael Jacob, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Adam H. Jacobi, MD
Assistant Professor of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
David S. Mendelson, MD
Professor of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer – Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice
Vice Chair Radiology IT | Mount Sinai Health System
Laurel Morris, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
James W. Murrough, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Director, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
David Putrino, PhD
Director, Rehabilitation Innovation
Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Eric Sobie, PhD
Sr. Associate Dean for Programmatic Development
Professor of Pharmacological Science
Maria Giovanna Trivieri, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Medical Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program
The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute
Adjunct Faculty
Rebecca Feldman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus
Stefanie Hectors, PhD
Associate Director
Imaging Early Clinical Development
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Nikolaos Karakatsanis, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Radiology
Weill Cornell Medical College
Mehmet Kurt, PhD
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
Christoph Lippert, PhD
Chair of Digital Health and Machine Learning
Hasso Plattner Institute
Kambiz Nael, MD
Professor in Residence, Radiology
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
University of California, San Francisco
Junqian (Gordon) Xu, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology and Psychiatry
Baylor College of Medicine
Benjamin Ely, PhD
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
External Collaborators
Fadi Akar, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Biomedical Engineering
Yale School of Medicine
Anthony Costa, PhD
Director, Digital Biology
NVIDIA
Somali Gavane, MD
Nuclear Medicine Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eric Oermann, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor, Department of Radilogy
NYU Langone Health
James H.F. Rudd MD PhD FRCP
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge
Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Gustav Strijkers, PhD
Full Professor, ACS – Atherosclerosis & Ischemic Syndromes
Full Professor, ACS – Heart Failure & Arrhythmias
Full Professor, AMS – Musculoskeletal Health
Full Professor, AMS – SportsAffiliatie UvA
Full Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Physics
Amsterdam UMC
Charalampos “Harry” Tsoumpas, PhD FInstP FIPEM FHEA SrM’IEEE
Professor, Quantification in Molecular Diagnostics & Radionuclide Therapy
University of Groningen
Faculty - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Translation to Medicine
Faculty - Biomedical Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
The BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), in partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is seeking mid to senior-level faculty members to spearhead a novel research initiative in the engineering of reparative and regenerative Medicine.
Faculty - Neuroengineering
Biomedical Software Developer
The BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking a Biomedical Software Developer.
News
[VIDEO] Aspen Ideas Festival: Dr. Fuchs and Dr. Fayad on Powering Medicine with Technology and Data Science
Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, Director of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute sits down with Thomas Fuchs, DrSc, Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health to discuss powering medicine with technology and data science. Click the image to watch the video.
[VIDEO] Dr. Zahi Fayad: Powering Medicine with Technology and Data Science
BMEII Director Zahi Fayad discusses the role of data science in medicine at the 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival. Click the image to watch the video.
Latest Publications
Artificial intelligence–enabled rapid diagnosis of patients with COVID-19
Xueyan Mei, Hao-Chih Lee, […] Yang Yang
Nat Med (2020).
Probing myeloid cell dynamics in ischaemic heart disease by nanotracer hot-spot imaging
Max L. Senders, Anu E. Meerwaldt, ... Willem J. M. Mulder
Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 398–405 (2020).