LII Staff Members

Kevin D. Evans, PhD Professor

 

Kevin D. Evans, PhD is Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Investigatory Imaging.  Dr. Evans started the lab in 2007 and has had consistent funding from federal and state agencies, as well as private foundations.  As a PI or co-PI, Dr. Evans has been working on novel cardiovascular disease assessment measures, fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, and capturing imaging data and reduce musculoskeletal injuries.  Dr. Evans is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography.  He is also the past Chair of the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers and the past President of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers and Educational Foundation. Currently, Dr. Evans has several ongoing funded projects that focus on cardiovascular disease and survey research into sonographer and sonologist health and well-being.

Huriah Al Sultan, MS PhD Student

Huriah Al Sultan, MS, RRT, RRT-NPS, RRT-ACCS, Assistant Lab Director, is pursuiting her PhD in Health & Rehabilitation Sciences.  Huriah has expertise in respiratory therapy and work experience at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.  Huriah has experience in Saudi Arabian hospitals and the medical college which will be invaluable as we continue to work to find diagnostic methods for assessing COVID-19 survivors.  Huriah will be focusing her pediatric experience on ways for our team to diagnosis issues of “long haul” COVID in children. Huriah will be working with the MRT students as well as becoming an expert in lung ultrasound.  Huriah’s general exam and upcoming doctoral research will revolve around the factors that are making diverse pediatric populations at risk for COVID-19 and its many variants.

Sydney Snyder, OSU senior, Biology, pre-med

We are thrilled to have Sydney Snyder, OSU pre-med student rejoining our lab for her second year.  Sydney worked very hard on the set up for recruitment of parents and children for our COVID-19 survivor study.  Sydney will continue to be a intrigal part of this study as well as publishing her findings from a piloting study of college students who survived COVID-19.  Sydney is a strong contributor and is quickly mastering the skill of lung ultrasound.  We look forward to a highly productive academic year with Sydney in the lab.  Sydney is again serving as a Resident Advisor for Park-Stradley dormatory.

Peter Bradbury, Biology/Pre-med senior

In addition to our student workers, we are also excited to welcome Peter Bradbury, OSU pre-med student.  Pete is from the Cincinnati area and is beginning his junior year of his Biology major.  Pete will be working exclusively on the MediView LLC product evaluation project.  Pete is very excited to master the use of the Microsoft HoloLens and also how we can gather credible data from our focus group participants.  Pete is filling the huge shoes of Isaiah Bloom,BS who is now a M1 Medical Student at Dartmouth’s School of Medicine.  Isaiah will be providing Peter with some important remote support.

We feel very fortunate to have Menglin Xu, PhD working within our lab for biostatistical support. Dr. Xu is an OSU graduate of the statistics department and has an appointment within the OSU Wexner Medical Center.  Dr. Xu is providing key statistical analysis for our cardiovascular screening research on adults and also our simulation assessment data collection. Recently Dr. Xu was invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography as a volunteer statistical consultant.   Dr. Xu’s readiness to provide consultation on specific original research manuscripts is part of the growth of the journal.  We are thrilled to have Dr. Xu as part of our team!!

Robert McIntyre, OSU Biology; Pre-med student

This fall 2023, we are so excited to have recruited Robert McIntyre, who is also a new junior in Biology and the pre-med curriculum.  Robert is joining our lab to help with additional product testing that may be delegated to our lab by MediView LLC.  Robert is training with Pete and Dr. Evans so that he can master basic imaging studies and perhaps work with a cohort of research patients.  Robert is originally from New Jersey. He currently a member the OSU Financial Literacy for  Youth Club and Kappa Delta Rho fraternity.  Robert was chosen by his fraternity to  serve as the Academic Chair. During his free time, he enjoys golfing, relaxing at the beach, and hanging out with his friends and family.

We are also very happy to host a stellar group of student volunteers that are gaining experience and may commit to some of our future projects.

Jayen Patel, OSU junior in Mechanical Engineering

We are excited to have Jayen Patel, a junior at the Ohio State University working towards a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.  Jay had this to say about working in the LII, “My employers and coworkers have considered me to be team-oriented, a considerate communicator, and driven at a high level. Working with Dr. Evans on projects in an opportunity that I am extremely grateful for and I hope that my background experience and studies can provide value and a unique perspective to the team.”   Jay is heavily invested in sonography, as his mother is a cardiac sonographer at the Cleveland Clinic.  He is also very interested in the development of equipment that might help to reduce musculoskeletal injuries among sonographers.  We are excited to hopefully add Jayen to our evaluation team for the OBWC funded project on the cardiac arm assistant project.

Volunteers

It is great to also have Katie Crane, SDPT, who is in her final year of the OSU Physical Therapy program.  Katie is considering continuing her education and entering the PhD program.  Katie is volunteering in our lab to learn hand held ultrasound assessments and determining whether those diagnostic techniques could be part of her future research program.

We also have invited Jenia Patel, Jay’s sister to volunteer in our lab!  Jenia is a freshman at OSU so we want to make sure she gets a solid footing before becoming overly involved in our work. Jenia is interested in majoring in biomedical engineering —a perfect fit!!

Our Office Administrative Assistant is Alexis Neuenschwander!  Alexis is a wonderful people person and is quickly mastering all the office skills needed to keep our Division and Lab moving forward.  Alexis will be assisting Dr. Evans with fiscal resources and accounting.  Please feel free to reach out to Alexis at: Alexis.Neuenschwander@osumc.edu

Alexis Neuenschwander, OA

 

Join our exciting team of researchers: Contact Dr. Evans at Evans.36@osu.edu