Maryam Vareth

Health and Life Sciences Lead
Co-Director, Innovate For Health initiative
Affiliated Researcher, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF School of Medicine
Affiliated Researcher, Data Science Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Real name: 
Maryam Vareth

Maryam Vareth leads BIDS’ data science research efforts in the Health & Life Sciences.  Dr. Vareth is a Co-Director of the Innovate For Health initiative, a collaboration among UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. As an experienced engineer, researcher, and data scientist, she applies mathematics, statistics and physics to solve unmet needs in healthcare to enhance patients’ experience during their medical journey. She is an advocate for “data-driven” medicine, and in particular for linking medical imaging data with medical diagnostics and therapeutics to extract clinically-relevant insights through the use of open research and open source practices.  Dr. Vareth received her BS and MS training in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley, where she was awarded the prestigious Regent’s and Chancellor’s Scholarship.  She completed her PhD through the joint UC Berkeley-UCSF Bioengineering program as a National Science Foundation Fellow, where she was awarded the Margaret Hart Surbeck Endowed Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research for her work on developing new techniques and algorithms for the acquisition, reconstruction and quantitative analysis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Imaging (MRSI), with the goal of improving its speed, sensitivity and specificity to improve the management of patients with brain tumors.  She conducted her post-doctoral fellowship at UCSF, combining structural, physiological and metabolic imaging data from large clinical trials to quantitatively characterize heterogeneity within malignant brain tumors.

Projects

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Innovate For Health

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Medical Imaging Research Using Deep Learning

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Situational awareness dashboards for primary care clinicians

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BIDS Undergraduate Internship Program

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Open-source software for generating synthetic electronic health records



Events

May 17, 2021 / 10:00am to May 18, 2021 / 2:00pm

December 10, 2020 / 11:00am to December 12, 2020 / 12:00pm

December 3, 2019 / 9:00am to December 6, 2019 / 5:30pm

December 5, 2018 / 9:00am to December 7, 2018 / 5:00pm

May 16, 2018 / 9:00am to May 18, 2018 / 5:00pm

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