Biology Dept. and Alaska WWAMI Science in Medicine offer epilepsy talk by Dr. Noriko Salamon on April 23

Friday, April 23, 3:30-4:45 p.m.

CPISB, Room 120

The Biology Department and Alaska WWAMI Science in Medicine is pleased to announce speaker Dr. Noriko Salamon speaking on "Neuroimaging of Epilepsy:  Hippocampal Sclerosis and Focal Cortical Dysplasia."

Salamon is an associate professor of radiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the Neuroradiology Fellowship, UCLA Radiological Sciences Department. Salamon earned her M.D. degree (1984) and Ph.D. (1989) from the University of Showa, Tokyo, Japan. Salamon completed a residency in radiology at Showa University Hospital and was clinical instructor of interventional radiology at Saitama Medical Center, Japan and assistant professor of radiology at Showa University Hospital. Dr. Salamon completed a postdoctoral fellowship in interventional neuroradiology at the Hospital Lariboisiere, Paris, France (1992) and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroimaging at Frederic Joliot Hospital, Orsay, France (1993).

Salamon completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in neuroradiology at Northwestern Medical School (Chicago, IL), as well as an internship in neurology, a residency in radiology, and a fellowship in neuroradiology at Northwestern Medical School.

Salamon has been at UCLA since 2002, where she previously held the following positions: research fellow in neuroradiology and visiting assistant professor of radiology (2002‐2003); and assistant professor of radiology (2003‐2008). Salamon's research interests include the neuroimaging of epilepsy, the neuroimaging of ataxia, and MR spectroscopy and diffusion tensor imaging of the spinal cord.

In her studies of the neuroimaging of epilepsy, Salamon uses high resolution MRI of epilepsy using 3 Tesla; normal appearing white matter analysis for epilepsy using diffusion tensor imaging; PET‐MRI fusion for surgical planning of cortical dysplasia; and extra‐temporal gray/white matter volume analysis of mesial temporal sclerosis. Salamon's research on the neuroimaging of ataxia involves diffusion tensor imaging of hereditary ataxia and diffusion tensor imaging of episodic ataxia.
 
Parking on the UAA campus is free on Fridays. No-host refreshments will be provided following the discussion. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Winfree at (907) 786-4780.