Pisition/Title:
- 2010-present, Principle Investigator, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 2011-present, Vice director, Department of Radiology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Beijing, China
- 2013-2018, Adjunct professor, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing, China
- 2007-2010, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
- 1999-2007, Resident and attending physician, Department of Radiology, Yanghou First People’s Hospital, Yangzhou, China.
Personal Statement:
Dr. Xihai Zhao obtained his bachelor of Clinical Medicine (medical imaging) from Harbin Medical University in 1999, master of radiology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in 2004, and his Ph.D. of radiology from Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Postgraduate Medical School in 2007. He was working in Yangzhou No.1 People’s hospital as a radiologist from 1999 to 2007 and qualified as an attending physician in 2004. He worked as a Senior Research Fellow at University of Washington in Seattle from 2007 to 2010.
Academic Responsibilities:
- Vice Chair, Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metablism of Chinese Stroke Association
- Member of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Member of American Heart Association
- Member of Oversea Chinese Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Academic editor for PLoS ONE and Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging
- Reviewer for Stroke, American Journal of Neuroradiology, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Research Interests:
- Development of cerebrovascular magnetic resonance imaging techniques, particularly cerebrovascular atherosclerosis imaging
- Development of peripheral vascular magnetic resonance imaging techniques
- Postprocessing of cardiovascular multimodality imaging (CT, US, and MRI)
- Clinical application of state-of-the-art cardiovascular and cerebrovascular magnetic resonance imaging
AcademicAchievements:
Dr. Xihai Zhao has played the role as Principle Investigator or Co-Principle Investigator for several grants funded by National Natrual Science Foundation of China, National "Twelfth Five-Year" Plan for Science & Technology Support, and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission. Dr. Zhao has published 40 papers in peer reviewed journals covered by SCI. He also presented more than 50 abstracts at international scientific conferences, such as International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), International Stroke Conference (ISC), and American Heart Association (AHA). He has received the Jim Pochen Award from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance Angiography in 2012.
Selected publications: * Co-first author or corresponding author
[1] Chen Z, Liu AF, Chen H, Yuan C, He L, Zhu Y, Guan M, Jiang WJ, Zhao X*. Evaluation of basilar artery atherosclerotic plaque distribution by 3D MR vessel wall imaging. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Jun 1. [Epub ahead of print]
[2] Chen Z, Zhang X, Yuan C, Zhao X*, van Osch MJ. Measuring the labeling efficiency of pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling. Magn Reson Med. 2016 May 13. [Epub ahead of print]
[3] Qiao H, He Q, Chen Z, Xu D, Huang L, He L, Jiang L, Li R, Luo J, Yuan C, Zhao X*. Identification of early atherosclerotic lesions in carotid arteries with quantitative characteristics measured by 3D MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Apr 15. [Epub ahead of print]
[4] Wang J, Guan M, Yamada K, Hippe DS, Kerwin WS, Yuan C, Börnert P, Zhao X*. In Vivo Validation of Simultaneous Non-Contrast Angiography and intraPlaque Hemorrhage (SNAP) Magnetic Resonance Angiography: An Intracranial Artery Study. PLoS One. 2016 Feb 10;11(2):e0149130.
[5] Li Q, Wang J, Chen H, Gong X, Ma N, Gao K, He L, Guan M, Chen Z, Li R, Mi D, Yuan C, Zhao X, Zhao XH*. Characterization of Craniocervical Artery Dissection by Simultaneous MR Noncontrast Angiography and Intraplaque Hemorrhage Imaging at 3T. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2015 Sep;36(9):1769-75.
