Dr. Shannon Kolind



Assistant Professor (grant tenure track) 

Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

Affiliation: Medicine (Neurology), Radiology, Physics & Astronomy

 

 

 

 

shannon.kolind@ubc.ca

 

Biography & Research Interest:

Shannon earned her PhD in Physics at UBC developing myelin water imaging and its application to the study of multiple sclerosis (MS). She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at FMRIB (University of Oxford) as well as the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. While in the UK, she specialised in developing new methods to image myelin using MRI, and making them more practical for use in research. She then returned to UBC, this time in the Division of Neurology, to become an Assistant Professor. Shannon’s lab is focused on developing a toolbox of tissue-specific imaging techniques. Her multi-disciplinary team employs these multi-modal tools to achieving greater sensitivity and specificity in clinical research; particularly for clinical trials of new therapies.