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Sarah Svenningsen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, specializing in biomedical engineering and respiratory diseases. Her research focuses on advanced medical imaging techniques using hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI to study asthma, COPD, and post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (Long COVID).
- Key affiliations: McMaster University, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
Research interests include:
- Quantifying ventilation heterogeneity in severe asthma
- Mucus plug dynamics and airway inflammation
- Hyperpolarized gas MRI for pulmonary disease characterization
- Long-term respiratory effects of SARS-CoV-2
- Computational fluid dynamics in airway drug delivery
- Multi-center imaging trial protocols
Recent publications highlight her work on:
- MRI ventilation defects predicting lung cancer surgery outcomes
- Dupilumab’s impact on airway inflammation
- Age-dependent MRI norms for healthy lungs
- Machine learning segmentation of ventilation defects
- Longitudinal studies of post-COVID-19 patients
Education:
- PhD in Medical Biophysics, Western University (2007–2011)
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University (2016–2020)
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