Our Team

Allen was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, growing up there until Undergraduate school brought her to St. Louis where she was resided ever since. She managed all acute clinical trials out of the Neurology Intensive Care Unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital for several years, including complex ICU-based physiologic PET studies. She began working on the Stroke Edema and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage projects with Dhar from the start, initially the main work-force evaluating each CT, converting them to appropriate form, and then identifying stroke and masking each lesion to be put into AI pipeline. She is married and has two young sons.

Education:

• Undergraduate — Saint Louis University School of Nursing (2005-2009)
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing, cum laude
  • Critical Care Certificate

Kunal Bhatia is originally from New Delhi, India where he completed his undergraduate and post-graduate education subsequently before moving to the US for further training. He is a neurocritical care fellow at Washington University in St. Louis and started working in Dhar’s lab shortly after joining the department in 2020. His research interests include hemorrhagic transformation in acute ischemic patients – quantification and association with functional outcomes, hematoma expansion in intracerebral hemorrhage, and vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage. Bhatia is interested in pursuing a career as an academic clinician in the future.

Education:

• MBBS – Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
• MD Medicine – Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
• Residency – Department of Neurology, University of Missouri-Columbia

Currently:
Assistant Professor in Neurology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Carey grew up in California and has been swimming competitively since she was six years old. She now swims at the collegiate level, attending the NCAA championships and being awarded a Scholar All-American in 2020. She is majoring in cognitive neuroscience.

Education:

• High School – Polytechnic High School, Pasadena, CA
• Undergraduate – Washington University in St. Louis (2018-present), major Cognitive Neuroscience

Currently:
Research Associate, Chai Laboratory at the USC School of Dentistry, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology

Corbin is a medical student at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. His current interests are in vascular and critical care neurology and has joined the Dhar Lab his second year of medical school. He is involved with assessing the caliber between cerebral edema biomarkers, net-water-uptake and CSF volumetrics.

Education:

• Undergraduate – Virginia Commonwealth University BS in Biomedical Engineering and BS in Chemistry
• Medical School – Saint Louis University School of Medicine, MD Candidate

Currently:
Resident in Neurology at the Ohio State University

Foroushani is a graduate research assistant in Mallinckrodt institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, USA. He has closely been working with Dhar in applications of deep learning in stroke research and edema dynamic. Foroushani has expertise in cutting-edge AI technology including machine learning, deep learning and statistical modeling and their applications in genomics and medical image analysis. Foroushani is interested in pursuing a career in imaging genomics to identify imaging, genomics and epigenomics markers for diagnosis, prognosis, and drug response prediction for neurological diseases. Foroushani enjoys camping, playing piano, doing yoga and reading books on psychology.

Education:

• MS – Washington University in St. Louis, Engineering Data Analytics and Statistics
• MS – Washington University in St. Louis, Electrical Engineering
• PhD candidate – Washington University in St. Louis, Electrical Engineering

Currently:
Postdoctoral scientist in deep learning at AbbVie

Born in Miami, Florida to Colombian parents, Isabella has grown up her entire life in the island of Key Biscayne until Undergraduate school brought her to St. Louis. She currently works in the Dhar Laboratory analyzing, checking, and fixing master exclusions/inclusions for data as she gets started as a new member of the lab.

Education:

• Highschool — Coral Gables Senior High School (2014-2018) receiving an International Baccalaureate Diploma as well as the Superintendent’s Diploma of Distinction graduating top 2% of her class with a 4.0/4.0 GPA
• Undergraduate — Washington University in St. Louis (2018-2022) Currently a second semester freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences major in Cognitive Neuroscience with a double minor in Spanish and Musical Theatre

Originally from Arak, Iran and then moving to Tehran, Iran, Hamzehloo has practiced as an interventional neurologist since 2010. He began working as research fellow in department of vascular neurology at St. Louis University School of Medicine in 2016 until 2018. He finally joined the Dhar Lab near the end of November 2018. He is interested in neuroimaging (CT’s, MRI’s, PET, fMRI, SPECT’s) as well as interventional neuroradiology. Ali has a widespread experience in clinical research in cerebrovascular disease and neuroimaging. After his time in the lab, he pursued a clinical stroke fellowship at Wayne State University. He is now starting a neurology residency at HCA northwest in Florida. Outside of work, he enjoys reading literature and history books but most of all, spending his time with his amazing wife and son.

Education:
Hamzehloo attended Tehran University of Medical Science School of Medicine in Tehran/Iran. He then proceeded to complete his Neurology residency in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Isfahan, Iran. Finally, he did a fellowship in Interventional Neuroradiology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Currently:
Neurology resident  at HCA Florida Westside Hospital

Current position: Statistical Data Analyst, Department of Anesthesiology

Originally from China, June He has been working as a research scientist in medical and biological fields. Currently, she is cooperating with Clinicians on all kinds of data. June’s duties include data cleaning, filtering, and statistics analysis with all kinds of statistic software. Her major aim is to study edema dynamic stimulation and develop CSF Trajectory Modeling by conducting cohort study across thousands of patients. June is evaluating the predictive value of the combination of different markers including genetic genotype by complex statistics methods. June hopes that her modeling an help the clinicians in making better clinical decisions in the future.

Education:

• Bachelor of Medicine — Tongji Medical University, P.R. China
• Master of Science — Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Genetic Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Biological Products Ministry of Public Health, P.R. China
• Master of Science — Biostatics Genetic Pathway (ongoing), Division of Biostatics in the School of Medicine at Washington University, Saint Louis, MO

Currently:
Statistical Data Analyst in Clinical Research, Anesthesiology

Jayaraman is a medical student at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) and engages in clinical, bench and health policy research as it relates to cerebrovascular disease. He is particularly interested in neuroimaging technology and biomarkers for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), stroke and vascular malformations of the brain. He joined the Dhar Lab shortly before medical school and is involved with the research and development of machine learning-centered approaches for automating the assessment of CT biomarkers of SAH. Jayaraman is interested in pursuing a career in endovascular neurosurgery and will be spending a dedicated research year investigating neurovascular imaging biomarkers.

Education:

• Undergraduate – Washington University in St. Louis, B.A in Biology
• Medical School – Washington University School of Medicine, MD Candidate

Currently:
Incoming resident at Indiana University, Internal Medicine & Pediatrics

Siddiqui is a medical student at St. Louis University School of Medicine with a research interest in clinical informatics. As an undergraduate at St. Louis University, he has worked on precision medicine software, along with the development of a blood chimerism calculation tool for the monitoring of post-HSCT leukemia patients (“Rchimerism”). His work at the Dhar lab focuses on automated extraction of large vessel occlusions (LVOs) from medical record text reports of stroke patients using natural language processing. He is also involved with the application of radiomics software to better understand hemorrhagic transformation. Siddiqui is a St. Louis native, and in his free time he enjoys spending time with family and friends, trying out new restaurants, and spending time outdoors.

Education:

• Undergraduate – BS Computer Science, St. Louis University
• Medical School – St. Louis University School of Medicine (class of 2023)

Currently:
PGY-1 resident in Internal Medicine, UT Memphis