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Song Lab Members
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Jae W. Song, MD, MS
Dr. Song is the Director of the Penn Vessel Wall Imaging Program and Assistant Professor of Radiology (curriculum vitae). She earned her MD at NYU School of Medicine. She completed her diagnostic radiology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital and neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Her research is focused on the translation of neuroimaging methods that improve the outcomes of patients with stroke. Fun facts: Jae speaks 3 languages, lived in 5 countries, & loves traveling!
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Shraddha Pandey, PhD
Dr. Pandey is a postdoctoral fellow and co-mentored by Drs. Song and Dylan Tisdall. She completed her PhD at University of South Florida in Electrical Engineering where she predicted stereotactic radiosurgery dose maps in cancer patients using deep neural networks. She is interested in MR pulse sequence design, protocol development, and applications. Fun facts: Shraddha is an avid gardener, animal lover, and active member of animal rescue groups.
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Yu Sakai, MD
Dr. Sakai is a research track resident in diagnostic radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his MD at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is interested in perfusion imaging, artificial intelligence, and quality improvement. Fun facts: Yu is a black belt karate master!
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Konstanze V. Guggenberger, MD
Dr. Guggenberger is a neuroradiology resident at the University Hospital of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany. She is interested in vessel wall MR imaging and vasculitis, specifically giant cell arteritis. She is co-mentored by Univ-Prof. Dr. med. Thorsten Bley and Dr. Song.
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Pargol Balali, MD, MS
Pargol is a research assistant at University of Pennsylvania and works on various projects exploring stroke etiology & pathophysiology. She earned her MD at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran and completed her Master’s in Neuroscience at McMaster University, Canada. Fun fact: Pargol enjoys playing piano and learning French in her free time!
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Manisha Koneru, MS
Manisha is a medical student in the accelerated BS/MD program at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (Class of 2024). She completed her MS at Johns Hopkins University in Biotechnology. She is interested in neuroradiology and neurointerventional surgery. Fun facts: Manisha is trilingual (Telugu and Latin).
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David Yang, BA
David is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine (Class of 2025). He is interested in diagnostic radiology, neurology, and rheumatology. Fun Facts: David enjoys singing, playing guitar, and cooking Chinese food.
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Yvonne Su, BA
Yvonne is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine (Class of 2025). She is interested in diagnostic radiology and neuroimaging. Fun facts: Yvonne has 4 cats and they are all named after U.S. Presidents and First Ladies!
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Quynh-Anh Dang, BS
Anh is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine (Class of 2025). She is interested in vascular surgery and interventional radiology. She is co-mentored by Dr. Grace Wang and Dr. Song. Fun fact: She is a Lifetime Member of Girl Scouts and has previously gotten "paid" in the form of cookies!
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Huy Phi, BS
Huy is a medical student at Drexel University College of Medicine (Class of 2026). He is interested in radiology and the intersection between medicine and technology. Fun facts: Huy enjoys cooking, exploring Philly’s food scene, and building computers/mechanical keyboards!
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Andrew Hu, MS
Andrew is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine (Class of 2026). Coming from a background of computational biology, he is interested in diagnostic and interventional radiology, with a growing curiosity about artificial intelligence and medical images as data. Fun facts: Andrew enjoys playing volleyball and transcribing music!
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Song Lab Intramural Collaborators
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Scott E. Kasner, MD, MSCE
Dr. Kasner is Director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Chief of the Division of Vascular Neurology and Ruth M. Tristram C. Colket, Jr. President’s Distinguished Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Brett L. Cucchiara, MD
Dr. Cucchiara is Director of the Neurovascular Ultrasound Laboratory and Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Steven R Messé, MD
Dr. Messé is Associate Director of the Vascular Neurology Fellowship and Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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John Detre, MD
Dr. Detre is the founding director of the Center for Functional Neuroimaging (CfN) in the Department of Radiology, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Neurology and Professor of Neurology and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jens Witsch, MD
Dr. Witsch is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and expert in the diagnosis and management of intracerebral hemorrhage.
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Grace J. Wang, MD, MSCE, FACS
Dr. Wang is Director of the Vascular Laboratory, a Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute, and Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Russell (Taki) Shinohara, PhD
Dr. Shinohara is the Director of the Penn Statistics in Imaging and Visualization Endeavor and Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Haochang Shou, PhD
Dr. Shou is the Associate Director of the Penn Statistics in Imaging and Visualization Endeavor and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Quy Cao, PhD
Dr. Cao is a member of the Penn Statistics in Imaging and Visualization Endeavor and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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M. Dylan Tisdall, PhD
Dr. Tisdall is an Assistant Professor of Radiology, leads the Robust Methods for Magnetic Resonance Group, and is a member of the Center for Functional Neuroimaging (CfN).
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Walter R. Witschey, PhD
Dr. Witschey is the Director of the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Lab (CorLab) and Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Peter Noël, PhD
Dr. Noël is part of the Basic Research Division at the Department of Radiology of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of Computed Tomography Research (Laboratory for Advanced Computed Tomography Imaging [LACTI]).
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Song Lab Extramural Collaborators
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Zhaoyang Fan, PhD
Dr. Fan is the Director of the MR Imaging Research Lab and Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, and Biomedical Engineering at Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.
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Daniel Haehn, PhD
Dr. Haehn is Director of the Machine Psychology research group and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Pascal Sati, PhD
Dr. Sati is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Sciences, Director of Neuro Imaging Unit and Co-Director of the 7 Tesla System at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California.
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Javier M. Romero, MD, FAHA
Dr. Romero is the Director of the R.H Ackerman Neurovascular Lab and Vascular Ultrasound Services. He is Associate Professor of Radiology in the Division of Neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School.
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Emmanuel Obusez, MD
Dr. Obusez is Associate Staff in the Section of Neuroradiology, Imaging Institute. He is Assistant Professor of Radiology at Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, OH.
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Scott Raymond, MD, PhD
Dr. Raymond is an Assistant Professor of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
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Song Lab International Collaborators
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Julien Savatovsky, MD
Dr. Savatovsky is Deputy Chief of Diagnostic Neuroradiology at the Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation Hospital in Paris, France.
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Daniel Bos, MD, PhD
Dr. Bos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Epidemiology at the Erasmus MC Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Beom Joon (BJ) Kim, MD, PhD
Dr. Kim is Chief of the Cerebrovascular Disease Center and Professor of Vascular Neurology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in Seoul, South Korea.
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Luca Saba, MD
Dr. Saba is Dean of the School of Medicine, Professor and Chairman of Radiology at the University of Cagliari in Italy.
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Song Lab Alumni
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Ishaan Bhatt, MD
Dr. Bhatt earned his medical degree at DUCOM (Class of 2024) and successfully matched into the University of Maryland Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program.
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Ada Bozikov
Ada is an undergraduate student at Mary Baldwin University majoring in Biology with a Biomedical Emphasis (Class of 2025). She was a summer research assistant in the Song Lab in 2023.
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Nathan Arnett, MD
Dr. Arnett earned his medical degree at PSOM (Class of 2023). He successfully matched into Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Class of 2029) IR/DR residency program!
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Dan Cohen-Addad, MD
Dr. Cohen-Addad is presently an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Emory University. He is a graduate of the 2022 Penn Neuroradiology fellowship.
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Raghav Mattay, MD
Dr. Mattay is presently completing a 2-year Neuroendovascular Fellowship at UCSF. He is a graduate of the 2022 Penn Neuroradiology fellowship and served as Chief Fellow.
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Brianna Moon, PhD
Dr. Moon is presently a radiology research fellow at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital and previously a HHMI Interfaces Scholar earning her PhD in the Department of Bioengineering in the CorLab at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Kofi-Buaku Atsina, MD
Dr. Atsina is presently a diagnostic and interventional neuroradiologist at Radiology Associates of Richmond. He is a graduate of the 2021 Penn Neuroradiology fellowship.
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Athanasios (Thanos) Pavlou, MD
Dr. Pavlou is a diagnostic radiology resident at the University of Maryland Medical School in the Research Track. He was a former Penn Neuroradiology Research Fellow in 2020-2021.
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Jose (Joey) Saucedo, MD
Joey is a former PSOM medical student (Class of 2022) & successfully matched into Interventional Radiology at UCSD!
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Morgan Burke, BS
Morgan is presently a veterinary technician. She was previously a Penn Neuroradiology Clinical Research Coordinator and Research Assistant.
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Samantha (Guiry) Nakos, MD
Samantha is presently a resident in Emergency Medicine at NYU School of Medicine. She was previously a Penn Neuroradiology Clinical Research Coordinator and Research Assistant (2018-19).