Andrea Kassner

Biography

Dr. Kassner received her PhD in 2002 from the University of Manchester, UK. Her thesis focused on tumour angiogenesis using dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI. After working for Philips Medical Systems Europe for eight years as a MR Clinical Scientist, she joined the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Kassner was appointed Co-Director of Research, which was followed by her appointment as a Scientist in the Translational Medicine program at The Hospital for Sick Children. Her current research is focused on advancing MRI techniques for studying and monitoring two of the most devastating neurological disorders: stroke and intracranial neoplasm. Her current research projects include predicting hemorrhagic transformation in acute ischemic stroke using permeability MRI; mapping autoregulatory capacity using BOLD MRI in patients with chronic stroke; and examining gender differences in the corpus callosum using diffusion tensor imaging.

Research Interest

Advanced MR imaging techniques for studying and monitoring disease in the brain,