Joseph H Schwab, MD, MS
Founder & Director of SORG, CPAI & MGB Orthopaedic Registry
Chief, Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Spine Oncology & Co-Director, Stephen L. Harris Chordoma Center
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Hamid Ghaednia, PhD
Co-Director SORG, CPAI & MGB Orthopaedic Registry
PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Ghaednia’s research focuses on the development of biomedical devices and wearables using
a combination of analytical and machine learning algorithms.
Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani, MD, PhDc
Clinical Executive Director of MGB Orthopaedic Registry
Chief Scientific Officer, Director, Foot & Ankle Research and Innovation Laboratory (FARIL)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Synho Do, PhD
Lead Investigator of MGB Orthopaedic AI Registries
Director, Laboratory of Medical Imaging and Computation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Investigator, Radiology, Mass General Research Institute
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Executive Support
Mitchel Harris, MD
Chief of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon
Prof. James Kang, MD
Chairman of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon
Sarah Yeates
Clinical Research Program Manager, Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kate McKiernan, MS
Senior Administrative Director of Business, Research, and Academic Operations, Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Collaborating PI’s
Christopher DiGiovanni, MD
Hany Bedair, MD
Dan Tobert, MD
Chaitanya Mudgal, MD
Neal Chen, MD
Marilyn Heng, MD
Bassem Elhassan, MD
Registry Staff
Bardiya Akhbari, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University
Dr. Akbari is developing deep learning and natural language processing algorithms to analyze healthcare data, with the goal of designing systems that can translate to clinical settings and improve patient care through the intersection of orthopaedics, biomechanics, medical imaging, and machine learning.
Soomin Jeon, PhD
Research fellow in Radiology
PhD in Computational Mathematics and Imaging
Jacobien HF Oosterhoff, MD
Research Fellow visiting from Amsterdam University Medical Centers, the Netherlands, with PhD subject: “Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedics; Integrating Predictive Analytics for Hip Fracture Patients.”
David Shin, BS
Data Engineer, MGB Orthopaedic Registries, SORG
BS Computer Science, Yale University
Emma Tomlinson, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator, MGB Orthopaedic Registries
BS in Biology and Psychology, Tufts University
Hester Zijlstra, MD
Research fellow from University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, with PhD Subject: “Optimization of treatment and prevention of vertebral compression fractures to preserve quality of life of multiple myeloma patients.”
John R Bales, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator, Orthopaedic Spine
BA in Philosophy, Tufts University
Alumni
Nadine Kanbier, MS
Graduate student in Applied Data Science visiting from Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Nicolas Sauder
Clinical Research Coordinator
Current Medical Student at Case Western Reserve
Austin Collins
Clinical Research Coordinator
Current Medical Student at Emory