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Kimberly J. Hemmerling
Education
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2025 MS/PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - PI: Dr. Molly Bright
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2019 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with Honors
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Experience
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2025-PRESENT Postdoctoral Fellow
Albert Einstein College of Medicine -
2019-2025 Graduate Research Assistant
Applied Neuro-Vascular Imaging Lab, Northwestern University -
2024 Intern, Imaging Biomarkers
Biogen -
2018 Research Scientist Intern
Hospital for Special Surgery -
2017-2019 Undergraduate Research Scientist
Donnelly Research Lab, Cornell University
Honors and Awards
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2024 - ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award
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2023 - NIH F31 NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship
- Biomedical Engineering Research Progress Award
- ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award
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2021 - T32 Graduate Training Program in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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2019 - Royal E. Cabell Fellowship (Northwestern)
Selected Presentations
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2024 Mapping spinal cord vascular reactivity and vascular territories using fMRI in highly sampled individuals
- Talk at the ISMRM 2024 Annual Meeting in Singapore
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2023 Spatial distribution of hand-grip motor task activity in spinal cord fMRI
- Talk at the ISMRM 2023 Annual Meeting in Toronto, ON, Canada
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2023 Mapping functional motor activity in the healthy and post-stroke spinal cord
- Seminar for the Cognitive Brain Mapping Group at Northwestern University
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2021 Visualization technique for assessment of spinal cord fMRI data quality
- Talk at the ISMRM 2021 Annual Meeting (virtual)