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Amy Scouten

    Scientific Advisor

     

    Amy is a Scientific Advisor with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. She has a broad background in engineering, with an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics, a minor in Electrical Engineering, and several years of undergraduate research experience in applied magnetics.

    Amy specialized for six years in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), conducting her research in respected institutes in the USA, UK, and Canada. She has in-depth knowledge of MR theory and practical implementation issues, as well as extensive pulse sequence programming experience on both Siemens IDEA and GE EPIC platforms. She has designed and implemented a variety of functional MRI studies, incorporating contrast mechanisms such as Vascular Space Occupancy (VASO) and Pseudo-Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (pCASL) for measuring functional changes in cerebral blood volume and cerebral blood flow, respectively.

    Amy has multiple first-author scientific publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, and she has presented her research at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Toronto, as well as peer-reviewed conferences and workshops in New York, Berlin, Salvador, and Toronto.

Education

  • B.Sc. (Engineering Physics), Queen’s University
    Earned eight academic and research scholarships, including two Undergraduate Student Research Awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; graduated with First Class Honours
  • M.S., Ph.D. (Biomedical Engineering), Yale University
    Designed and implemented functional MRI pulse sequences on Siemens IDEA platform; Presented original research at conferences and workshops in Germany, Brazil, US, and Canada
  • Post-doctoral Fellowship (Medical Biophysics), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre & University of Toronto
    Awarded Heart and Stroke Foundation Centre for Stroke Recovery Post-doctoral Fellowship for development of functional MRI pulse sequences on GE EPIC platform

Member

  • Toronto Intellectual Property Group (TIPG)