Faculty & Staff
Rachel Marsh, PhD
Co-Director, MRI Research Program
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr. Marsh, the Irving Philips Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry, has served as Director of the MRI Research Program since 2016. She leads NIH-funded MRI studies across the lifespan and chairs the Joint MR Safety Committee at CUIMC, advancing MRI safety, operational efficiency, equitable access, and pilot programs for innovative studies.
Gaurav Patel, MD, PhD
Co-Director, MRI Research Program
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychotic Disorders
Dr. Patel has served as Technical Director of the NYSPI MRI Unit since 2016. He develops advanced MRI acquisition techniques and standardizes protocols across teams. As Co-Director and C3N Co-Director, he broadens access to high-resolution fMRI and modern analysis pipelines across facilities and computing infrastructure.
Matthew Riddle, BFA
Director of Operations
NYSPI MRI Research Program
Shiva Kalaiselvan
MRI Research Program Coordinator
NYSPI MRI Research Program
Yunsuo Duan, PhD
RF Coil Development
NYSPI MRI Research Program · Division of Translational Imaging
Feng Liu, PhD
MRI Pulse Sequence Development
NYSPI MRI Research Program · Division of Translational Imaging
Jenna Anderson, MS
MRI Operator
NYSPI MRI Research Program
Julissa Osorno, MS
MRI Operator
NYSPI MRI Research Program
Juan Sanchez, MS
Research Scientist
NYSPI MRI Research Program · Division of Psychotic Disorders
David Semanek, CISSP
Bioinformatics Application Developer
NYSPI - PsyIT
Jack Grinband, PhD
Signal Processing & Data Analysis
NYSPI MRI Research Program
Zhishun Wang, PhD
Functional MRI & Connectivity
NYS Psychiatric Institute · Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Xiaofu He, PhD
DTI, Realtime fMRI
NYS Psychiatric Institute · Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Xuejun Hao, PhD
Multimodal Imaging
NYS Psychiatric Institute · Division of Epidemiology
MRI Research Program Operating Committee
Rachel Marsh, PhD
Director, MRI Research Program
Janelle Dierkens, MS
Director, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene
Jeffrey Miller, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (Molecular Imaging & Neuropathy), NYSPI
Gaurav Patel, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (Experimental Therapeutics), NYSPI
Guillermo Horga, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (Translational Imaging), NYSPI
Lawrence Kegeles, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (Radiology), NYSPI
Matthew Riddle, BFA
Administrative Director, Operations Manager, MRI Research Program
Joint MR Research Safety Committee
Marc Brown, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology, CUIMC Department of Radiology
Peter F. Caracappa, PhD
Executive Director, Chief Radiation Safety Officer, Environmental Health & Safety
Yunsuo Duan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology, CUIMC Department of Psychiatry
Raphael Gerraty, PhD
Managing Director, MRI Platform, Zuckerman Institute
Sachin Jambawalikar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, CUIMC Department of Radiology
Itamar Kahn, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Jerome L. Greene Science Center
Rachel Marsh, PhD, Chair
Professor of Medical Psychology, CUIMC / NYSPI
Ran (Angela) Meng, MS
Associate Director, Research Radiation Safety Program, Environmental Health & Safety
Benjamin Navot, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, CUIMC Department of Radiology
John Thomas Vaughn, Jr., PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Jerome L. Greene Science Center
Collaborators
Christopher Stanley
Director of Cyber Strategy and Risk - NYS OMH
Waseem Ijaz
Systems Administrator - NYSPI PsyIT
Lawrence Kegeles, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (Radiology), NYSPI
Jia Guo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, NYSPI
Raphael Gerraty, PhD
Managing Director of MRI, ZMBBI