BME Seminar Series: Dr. Yuchi Han, The Ohio State University

Yuchi Han, MD, MMSc
Professor and Director of Cardiac Imaging
Physician, Cardiovascular Disease
College of Medicine, The Ohio State University

Abstract:

“Cardiac imaging for personalized precision medicine“

Cardiac imaging techniques have revolutionized the diagnosis and understanding of cardiac diseases in the past 5 decades. As we develop more quantitative techniques for precise depiction of the heart, we also run into problems of understanding the interaction of personal characteristics and population characteristics.  In this talk, I give two examples of the approaches that we have taken to try to make cardiac imaging a more personalized diagnostic tool for precision medicine.  

Bio:

Dr. Yuchi Han is an advanced imaging cardiologist at The Ohio State University, where she services as Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Imaging. Dr. Han received her undergraduate degree in Physics from Princeton University, and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School.  She completed her residence at Stanford University, and her general cardiology, research, and imaging fellowships at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She holds a master’s degree in clinical investigation from Harvard Medical School.  Prior to OSU, she was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as Director of Cardiac MRI.

Dr. Han focuses her clinical and research work on echocardiography and cardiac MRI with main research areas including right ventricular function, real-time imaging, valvular heart disease, and myocardial tissue characterization. She has published over 140 research manuscripts, editorials, and book chapters and has held R01 funding form the NIH/NHLBI on the study of premature ventricular contraction mediated cardiomyopathy.  She continues to pursue imaging research using innovative methods for the diagnosis and prognosis of non-ischemic heart disease.