Academic

Academically, this information has been organized in the following manner:

Current Appointment
Present professional position
Education and Training
PhD and Bachelor of Science
Biographical
A sketch of the past
Research
Previous topics and current interests
Resumé
My curriculum vitae
Publications
Articles, abstracts, lectures, and literary communication
Websites
Sites created professionally and extracurricularly
Contact
Information for networking or communication
Scientific
A list of useful URLs, primarily focused on biology, engineering, MRI, and general references
Most Recept Update: 2013-03-25

ISMRM: the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, which hosts an annual conference. Previous conference locations include Berlin, Toronto, Hawaii, and Stockholm.

Current Appointment

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Interdisciplinary Training Program in Psychiatry & Neuroscience, NIH 5 T32 MH015330
F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Mentors: Peter C.M. van Zijl, PhD; Russell L. Margolis, MD; Christopher A. Ross, MD, PhD
Developed novel neuroimaging technologies to study schizophrenia patients at 7T

Education and Training

PhD: Doctor of Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Mentor: Peter C.M. van Zijl, PhD
Quantitative MRI methods for mapping magnetic susceptibilities in the central nervous system: acquired, analyzed, and applied novel MRI technologies to characterize the brain and spinal cord through clinical imaging studies at 3T and 7T including: children's development (PING), Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, HIV infection

SB: Bachelor of Science, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MD

Minors: Biomedical Engineering, Toxicology
Humanities Concentration: Technical Writing

Biographical Sketch

Issel Anne L. Lim attended elementary schools in Detroit, MI; Wise, VA; Whitesburg, KY; and Newport News, VA. During middle and high school at Hampton Roads Academy, she participated in the Virginia Governor's School for the Visual and Performing Arts (Piano), Model United Nations (Most Outstanding Delegation), the Tidewater Forensics League (Public Speaking, Acting), and research at the Laser Systems Branch of NASA. She then matriculated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in Biology, with minors in Biomedical Engineering and Toxicology, with a humanities concentration in Technical Writing. After graduating in 2005, she became a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, working with Dr. Peter van Zijl's group at the F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging. She defended her thesis work in 2012, and the title of her PhD dissertation was "Quantitative MRI Methods to Characterize Magnetic Susceptibility in the Central Nervous System." She was also the president for the NeuroEngineering Training Initiative and the Directive Leader of the Hopkins Imaging Initiative, as well as and the webmaster for many websites, including the Kirby Center, the National Resource for Quantitative Functional MRI, and the JHU BME PhD Council. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins University in the program for NIH Interdisciplinary Training in Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Her research focuses on applying novel MRI methodologies to clinical neuroimaging studies.

Research Interests

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Imaging the Central Nervous System
Saturation, Exchange, Magnetization Transfer
Quantitative Magnetic Susceptibility, Phase Imaging
WASSR, Water Saturation Shift Referencing, Direct Saturation Imaging
Gray and White Matter Contrast
Relaxometry

Contact Information

Office Address
F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging
Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 North Broadway, Room G-25, Baltimore, MD 21205
http://mri.kennedykrieger.org
Email Address
issel at jhmi dot edu
Websites