| Education: | 2009 Post-Doctoral Fellow - Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario (UWO)
2004-2008 Ph.D. - Medical Biophysics, UWO
2000-2003 M.Sc. - Anatomy and Cell Biology, UWO
1996-2000 B.Sc. Hons. - Physiology, UWO |
| Awards: | 2009 - 2012 - Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2009 - Canadian Governor General's Academic Gold Medal
2006-2008 - Doctoral Research Award - Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada - Great-West Life
2007 - Travel Stipend - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 15th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2006 - Travel Stipend - Society of Molecular Imaging (SMI) 5th Annual Meeting, Hawaii
2006 - Travel Stipend - ISMRM 14th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Seattle, Washington
2004 - 2005 - Post Graduate Scholarship B (Doctoral award) - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2005 - Travel Stipend - ISMRM 13th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Miami Beach, Florida
2005 - Travel Stipend - Young Investigators Forum, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2001-2002 - Post Graduate Scholarship A (Masters award) - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2000-2001 - University of Western Ontario President's Scholarship for Graduate Study (Masters award) |
| Address: | Department of Radiology
Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Stanford University School of Medicine
E150 James Clark Center
318 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA - 94305 |
| Phone: | 650-724-3634 |
| Fax: | 650-724-4948 |
| E-mail: | jronald1@stanford.edu |
| Research Interests: | Discovery of new techniques for improving our ability to non-invasively track cells or cell products in various diseases, particularly atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and cancer. |
| Recent Publications: |
- Hamilton AM, Rogers KA, Drangova M, Khan Z, Ronald JA, Rutt BK, MacLean KA, Lacefield JC, Boughner DR. The in vivo diagnosis of early-stage aortic valve sclerosis using magnetic resonance imaging in a rabbit model. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.2009; 29(4): 825-831.
- Rajendran R*, Ronald JA*, Ye T, Minqin R, Rutt BK, Halliwell B, Watt F (*Authors contributed equally). Nuclear microscopy: A novel technique for quantititative imaging of gadolinium distribution within tissue sections. Microscopy and Microanalysis.2009; 15(4): 338-344.
- Ronald JA*, Chen JW*, Chen Y, Hamilton AM, Rodriguez E, Reynolds F, Hegele RA, Rogers KA, Querol M, Bogdanov A, Weissleder R, Rutt BK (* Authors contributed equally). Enzyme-Sensitive MR Imaging Targeting Myeloperoxidase Identifies Active Inflammation in Experimental Rabbit Atherosclerotic Plaques. Circulation.2009; Accepted(): .
- Ronald JA, Chen Y, Bernas L, Kitzler HH, Rogers KA, Hegele RA, Rutt BK. Clinical field-strength MRI of amyloid plaques induced by low-level cholesterol feeding in rabbits. Brain.2009; 132(Pt. 5): 1346-1354.
- Ronald JR, Chen Y, Belisle A, Hamilton AM, Rogers KA, Hegele RA, Misselwitz B, Rutt BK. Comparison of Gadofluorine-M and Gd-DTPA for non-invasive staging of atherosclerotic plaque stability using MRI. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.2009; 2(3): 226-234.
- Ronald JA, Walcarius R, Robinson JF, Hegele RA, Rutt BK, Rogers KA. MRI of early- and late-stage arterial remodeling in a low-level cholesterol fed rabbit model of atherosclerosis. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.2007; 26(4): 1010-1019.
- Heyn C*, Ronald JA*, Ramadan SS, Snir JA, Barry AM, MacKenzie LT, Mikulis DT, Palmieri D, Bronder JL, Steeg PS, Yoneda T, MacDonald IC, Chambers AF, Rutt BK, Foster PJ (*Authors contributed equally). In vivo MRI of cancer cell fate at the single-cell level in a mouse model of breast cancer metastasis to the brain. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.2006; 56(5): 1001-1010.
- Heyn C, Ronald JA, MacKenzie L, Chambers A, Rutt BK, Foster PJ. In vivo magnetic resonance imaging of single cells in mouse brain with optical validation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.2006; 5(1): 23-29.
- Cimini M, Boughner DR, Ronald JA, Aldington L, Rogers KA . Development of aortic valve sclerosis in a rabbit model of atherosclerosis: an immunohistochemical and histological study. Journal of Heart Valve Disease.2005; 14(3): 365-375.
- Cimini M, Boughner DR, Ronald JA, Johnston DE, Rogers KA. Dermal fibroblasts cultured on small intestinal submucosa: Conditions for the formation of a neo-tissue. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A.2005; 75(4): 895-906.
- Ronald JA, Ionescu CV, Rogers KA, Sandig M. Differential regulation of transendothelial migration of THP-1 cells by ICAM-1/LFA-1 and VCAM-1/VLA-4. Journal of Leukocyte Biology.2001; 70(4): 601-609.
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