Jayan Patel, BS-ME
OSU 2025

I am so proud of our Jayan Patel, who has been a volunteer in our lab for more than two years!  Jay is graduating this fall semester with his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, after presenting his group project to the Engineering faculty.  Jay became a skilled image analyst after learning how to scan the carotid arteries.  Jay not only helped with our COVID survivor study but also did exquisite carotid intimal thickness measures, bilaterally on many patients and viewing lots of cine loops.  Jay also developed our Excel spreadsheets for data entry and did troubleshooting of data entry.  Jay’s contributions to our lab have been significant and he also squeezed in two internships for ME.  Jay also gained experience with the formative development of the articulated scanning arm for echo. Jay is actively interviewing for a position with a local company and hopefully he will consider working on a future MS degree —I made the offer!!

I recently visited the campus of Wright State University and toured White Hall, which is the School of Medicine’s main building.  My tour guides were Peter Bradbury, BS (M2) and Sydney Snyder, BS (M1), who are successfully navigating the medical school curriculum.  White Hall is a combination lecture hall, anatomy lab, and extensive simulation teaching space.  Throughout the building there are many study pods, conference rooms, and study tables to allow students to work together. To find out more about WSU’s Boonshoft School of Medicine, click here: https://medicine.wright.edu/md-program

Sydney is still within the first few months of the curriculum but is already excited about a pathway to providing high quality women’s health care.  Pete is busy preparing for upcoming step exams but is also working with a research group to complete literature reviews on a variety of orthopedic topics.  Pete is strongly leaning toward a career as an orthopedic surgeon.  I am so proud of the progress and maturity that these LII graduates are demonstrating.  The future is extremely bright!!

Andrew Butler-Loney, UG-Bio Research Associate

It is a pleasure to announce the promotion of Andrew Butler-Loney, UG Biology, to the position of Research Associate.  Andrew has served as our lab’s Research Technician and demonstrated great dedication and skill pulling secondary data from NHANES, as well as building a database for the spinal cord injury (SCI) project.  This promotion is based on our need to have Andrew devote all his attention to the SCI project and manage the complete data collection process.  In this new role, Andrew will supervise the project and actively gather demographics, blood pressure, and other associated data, during each patient visits.  Additionally, he will handle all the scheduling of SCI participant visits over fall and spring semester. An added task is to build an image library that properly reflects the type of Doppler data that we have recorded and will be used for our publications.  Lastly, Andrew will be transferring the final Excel spreadsheet to Dr. Matt Farrow and our statistician, at the end of spring semester. Congratulations Andrew on this very important promotion!

Nioole Weikle, PhD-LII Alumni

We are very excited to announce that Drs. Nicole Weikle and Evans have committed to Wolters Kluwer Publishers and will create a new musculoskeletal ultrasound textbook.  This will be a large expansion of Dr. Evans previous chapter, on the topic, in the 4th edition of Kawamura and Nolan’s Abdomen and Superficial Structures textbook.  This exciting project will include significant contributions from authors Christopher Kanner, MD-Radiology, John Mickley, MD-Orthopedics, and Robert McIntyre, BS.  The text will likely be published in 2028, but requires significant effort over the next year, to allow the publishers to print the hard copy.  The text will build on classic scanning techniques but have the innovation of a Radiologist suggestions for diagnostic reporting and a Orthopedist utlization of the data.  We are very excited about this year long project. The true star of the production is Paul Michael Embry, our model for lab images.  Paul’s father was the original model for the Merrill’s Atlas of Radiographic Procedures and Positioning.

Huriah Al Sultan, MS
PhD Candidate

It is indeed an honor to just be nominated as an OSU Presidential Fellow and Huriah Al Sultan, MS will be the school’s nominee for this prestigious award.   The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowships are designed to recognize outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project. If awarded, the Presidential Fellowships provide financial support, so the fellow may devote one year, 3 consecutive semesters of full-time study to the completion of the dissertation or degree project, as well as to be unimpeded by other duties. Recipients of this award embody the highest standards of scholarship in OSU’s graduate programs.  Huriah’s research has been on the diagnostic ability to detect post-COVID changes in the heart, lungs, and quality of life in children and young adults.  Huriah has been fortunate to have worked with OSU Medical Center experts to use MRI protocols, to add diagnostic information on COVID survivors, as well as the first to use the new FDA approved MRI protocol for lung imaging.