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Kimberly J. Hemmerling

Education

  • 2025
    MS/PhD in Biomedical Engineering
    Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
    • PI: Dr. Molly Bright
  • 2019
    B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with Honors
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Experience

  • 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

  • 2024
    • ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award
  • 2023
    • NIH F31 NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship
    • Biomedical Engineering Research Progress Award
    • ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award
  • 2021
    • T32 Graduate Training Program in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • 2019
    • Royal E. Cabell Fellowship (Northwestern)

Selected Presentations

  • 2024
    Mapping spinal cord vascular reactivity and vascular territories using fMRI in highly sampled individuals
    • Talk at the ISMRM 2024 Annual Meeting in Singapore
  • 2023
    Spatial distribution of hand-grip motor task activity in spinal cord fMRI
    • Talk at the ISMRM 2023 Annual Meeting in Toronto, ON, Canada
  • 2023
    Mapping functional motor activity in the healthy and post-stroke spinal cord
    • Seminar for the Cognitive Brain Mapping Group at Northwestern University
  • 2021
    Visualization technique for assessment of spinal cord fMRI data quality
    • Talk at the ISMRM 2021 Annual Meeting (virtual)