Past Collaborators and Trainees
Napapon Sailasuta, PhD
Dr. Sailasuta is a California Institute of Technology graduate. She worked for General Electric HealthCare for 15 years in the Research and Development division and has over 20 years of research and development in magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging methods. Dr. Sailasuta's primary research interest is to understand the mechanisms of glia dysfunction in HIV infection and addiction as well as neurodegerative diseases using the noninvasive multi-modalities magnetic resonance approaches. Dr. Sailasuta has developed several proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods to directly quantify several difficult-to-measure brain chemicals.
Dr. Sailasuta is a California Institute of Technology graduate. She worked for General Electric HealthCare for 15 years in the Research and Development division and has over 20 years of research and development in magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging methods. Dr. Sailasuta's primary research interest is to understand the mechanisms of glia dysfunction in HIV infection and addiction as well as neurodegerative diseases using the noninvasive multi-modalities magnetic resonance approaches. Dr. Sailasuta has developed several proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods to directly quantify several difficult-to-measure brain chemicals.
Gail Henderson, PhD
Dr Henderson is a professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine and adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was Department Chair from 2009 to 2015, Director of the UNC Center for Genomics and Society (CGS) from 2007-2019, and co-Director of the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) International Core from 2004-2014. Dr Henderson was the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Editor of the journal, Genetics in Medicine, from 2009-2017, and a Member of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Advisory Council from 2016-2020.
Dr Henderson is a professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine and adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was Department Chair from 2009 to 2015, Director of the UNC Center for Genomics and Society (CGS) from 2007-2019, and co-Director of the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) International Core from 2004-2014. Dr Henderson was the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Editor of the journal, Genetics in Medicine, from 2009-2017, and a Member of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Advisory Council from 2016-2020.
Holly Peay, PhD, MS
Holly Peay is a Senior Research Public Health Analyst at RTI International. She is a trained in bioethics, genetic counseling and social science. Her research areas of interest are decision making, decision support, quantification of patient and caregiver preferences, and disorder-specific adaptation. She has experience using multiple social science and health economic techniques, both well established and innovative, to explore needs, preferences, experiences, coping and adaptation, risk perception, and decision making.
Holly Peay is a Senior Research Public Health Analyst at RTI International. She is a trained in bioethics, genetic counseling and social science. Her research areas of interest are decision making, decision support, quantification of patient and caregiver preferences, and disorder-specific adaptation. She has experience using multiple social science and health economic techniques, both well established and innovative, to explore needs, preferences, experiences, coping and adaptation, risk perception, and decision making.
Kalpana J. Kallianpur, PhD
Dr. Kallianpur holds a PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Hawaii. Dr. Kallianpur’s research interests include the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the effects of HIV on brain structure and function. She has demonstrated associations between brain atrophy and the peripheral HIV DNA reservoir. Dr. Kallianpur joined the Hawaii Center for AIDS in 2008 and the Department of Tropical Medicine in 2016. In the SEARCH 011 study of chronic HIV infection and in prior work, Dr. Kallianpur used structural MRI to examine associations between peripheral HIV DNA reservoirs and brain injury.
Dr. Kallianpur holds a PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Hawaii. Dr. Kallianpur’s research interests include the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the effects of HIV on brain structure and function. She has demonstrated associations between brain atrophy and the peripheral HIV DNA reservoir. Dr. Kallianpur joined the Hawaii Center for AIDS in 2008 and the Department of Tropical Medicine in 2016. In the SEARCH 011 study of chronic HIV infection and in prior work, Dr. Kallianpur used structural MRI to examine associations between peripheral HIV DNA reservoirs and brain injury.
Linda Jagodzinski, PhD
Dr. Jagodzinski, recently retired, was the Chief, Technology Assessment Lab for Walter Reed Army Institute (WRAIR), and provides molecular testing support to clinical research studies and to the HIV Diagnostics and Reference Laboratory in the diagnosis and monitoring of HIV-1 infected individuals. She has directed and collaborated on numerous studies of HIV-1 pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, diagnosis and patient monitoring for 35 years.
Dr. Jagodzinski, recently retired, was the Chief, Technology Assessment Lab for Walter Reed Army Institute (WRAIR), and provides molecular testing support to clinical research studies and to the HIV Diagnostics and Reference Laboratory in the diagnosis and monitoring of HIV-1 infected individuals. She has directed and collaborated on numerous studies of HIV-1 pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, diagnosis and patient monitoring for 35 years.
Past INHCC Trainees
John Best, MD
Phillip Chan, MD
Michelle Chintanaphol
Michelle D'Antoni, PhD
Orlanda Goh, MD
Ryan Handoko, MD
Joanna Hellmuth, MD, MHS
Idil Kore, MD
Payal Patel, MD
Michael Peluso, MD, MPhil, MHS
Gunn Pungpapong, Student Research Assistant
Apirada (Ann) Rakpraja, MD
Ivo N. SahBandar, MD, PhD
Andrew Silverman, MD
Julian Weiss, MD
John Best, MD
Phillip Chan, MD
Michelle Chintanaphol
Michelle D'Antoni, PhD
Orlanda Goh, MD
Ryan Handoko, MD
Joanna Hellmuth, MD, MHS
Idil Kore, MD
Payal Patel, MD
Michael Peluso, MD, MPhil, MHS
Gunn Pungpapong, Student Research Assistant
Apirada (Ann) Rakpraja, MD
Ivo N. SahBandar, MD, PhD
Andrew Silverman, MD
Julian Weiss, MD