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Journal of Pediatric Health Care and Medicine Volume 1, Issue 1
Page 23
September 11-12, 2017 Los Angeles, CA, USA
14th World Pediatrics &
Neonatal Healthcare Conference
Pediatrics & Neonatal Healthcare 2017
Notes:
Understanding the brain anatomy of premature and healthy newborns using MRI
Iwill cover some of the MRI analysis tools that we designed to understand the brain anatomy of newborns, such
as cortical and subcortical morphometry and white matter tract analyses in these populations. I will also give
some results on our analyses of early development of subcortical structures and networks in preterm and term
born neonates and infants.
Biography
Natasha Lepore involves in the development of numerical tools for the analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging data. She also works on applying these meth-
ods to different clinical and neuroscience applications. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Radiology at the University of Southern California
and at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has Graduated with a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Montreal and then obtained a Masters
in Applied Mathematics from Cambridge University. She has completed her PhD in theoretical physics (Harvard University), later she switched to neuroimaging
and became a Postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging.
Natasha Lepore
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA