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udi Schmidt

udi Schmidt, PhD

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

About udi Schmidt

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Medicine

Background

Ehud Schmidt, Ph.D., joins Johns Hopkins Medicine as an associate professor of medicine within the Division of Cardiology. His primary focus is research, including the areas of MRI-compatible devices, MR Imaging and MR Tracking pulse sequences, as well as MRI-guided cardiac electrophysiology. Ehud has engaged in MRI-guided interventions from 1998, advancing procedures from large-animal trials to humans in brain-tumor excision, abdominal-tumor radio-frequency and cryogenic ablation, pelvic tumor high-dose-rate (HDR) interstitial radiation therapy, and most recently anterior cervical-spine discectomy and fusion (ACDF). He now works with Dr. Henry Halperin (Cardiology) on bringing MRI-guided cardiac arrhythmia ablation to humans and Akila Viswanathan (Radiation Oncology) on MRI-guided HDR brachytherapy radioactive source placement.

Dr. Schmidt received his doctorate of philosophy degree in applied physics and geophysics from Stanford University. He completed a research fellowship in solid state physics at Technion (IIT) in Haifa, Israel. He then worked in the medical-imaging industry (Elscint, General Electric) as an MRI physicist and later as manager of interventional MRI in the GE Applied Science Lab. With more than 30 years of experience in the field, Dr. Schmidt most recently served as an associate professor within the Harvard Medical School Department of Radiology, and as a clinical physicist and director of engineering physics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Radiology.

Additional Academic Titles

Joint Appointment in Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ehud+j+schmidt&hl=en&as_sdt=0,22

Selected Publications

  • Schmidt EJ, Fung MM, Ciris PA, Song T, Shankaranarayanan A, Holmvang G, Gupta SN, Chaput M, Levine RA, Ruskin J, Reddy VY, D’avila A, Aletras AH, Danik SB. Navigated DENSE strain imaging for post-radiofrequency ablation lesion assessment in the swine left atria, Europace 2014;16: 133-145

  • Schmidt EJ, Mallozzi RP, Thiagalingam A, Holmvang G, d'Avila A, Guhde R, Darrow RR, Slavin GS, Fung  M, Dando J, Foley L, Dumoulin CL, Reddy VY. Electro-Anatomic Mapping and Radio-Frequency Ablation of Porcine Left Atria and Atrio-Ventricular Nodes using Magnetic Resonance Catheter Tracking. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2009;2(2):695-704. 

  • Schmidt EJ, Tse ZTH, Reichlin TR, Michaud GF, Watkins RD, Butts-Pauly K, Kwong RY, Stevenson WG, Schweitzer J, Byrd I, Dumoulin CL. Voltage-based device tracking in a 1.5 tesla MRI during imaging: initial validation in swine models, Magn. Reson. Med. 2014 71:1197–1209.

  • Dumoulin CL, Mallozzi RP, Darrow RD, Schmidt EJ. Phase-Field Dithering for Active Catheter Tracking. Magn. Reson. Med. 2010 ;63(5):1398-403

  • Qin L, Schmidt EJ, Tse ZTH, Santos J, Hoge WS, Tempany-Afdhal C, Butts-Pauly K, Dumoulin CL. Prospective motion correction using tracking coils. Magn. Reson. Med. 2013;  69 (3): 749–759.

Honors

  • Boston Biomedical Innovation Center Award, NHLBI, 1/1/16
  • iMRI 1st Place Poster Award, Interventional MRI Society Bi-Annual Meeting, 1/1/16
  • December 2015 Best Published Paper Award, Medical Physics, 12/1/15
  • Boston Biomedical Innovation Center Award, NHLBI, 1/1/15
  • Summa cum Laude Paper Award, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, 1/1/15
  • Summa cum Laude Paper Award, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, 1/1/14
  • Partners Innovation Award, Partners Healthcare, 1/1/11
  • iMRI 2nd Place Poster Award, Interventional MRI Society Bi-annual Meeting, 1/1/10
  • Young Investigator Award finalist (2nd place), Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 1/1/05
  • GE Award for Cardiovascular MRI, GE Healthcare, 1/1/05
  • Applied Physics Ph.D., cum Laude, Stanford University, 1/1/87
  • Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Physics, Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, 1/1/87
  • Physics BA, with honors, Technion, IIT, 1/1/82

Lectures & Presentations

  • AMIGO- operating room of the future, Lecture, American Association of Physicists in Medicine Winter Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 12/12/08
  • Cardiac Strain Imaging, Lecture, CIMIT Lecture Series, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 5/20/08
  • Devices for MRI-guided Electrophysiology, Lecture, BIDMC MRI Seminar Series, Boston, MA, 9/3/15
  • Hurtles to clinical MRI-guided Electrophysiology, Lecture, BIDMC MRI Seminar Series, Boston, MA, 3/5/09
  • MRI-compatible 12-lead ECG, Lecture, Annual Meeting, Magnetic Resonance Angiography Club, Banff, Canada, 11/5/11
  • MRI-Compatible Device Tracking, Lecture, Annual Cardiac MRI Seminar, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4/10/14
  • MRI-guided 12-lead ECG, Lecture, Sunnybrook Annual Cardiac MRI Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4/19/08
  • Progress on MRI-compatible EP catheters, Lecture, Siemens Users Seminar, Interventional MRI Bi-Annual Conference, Leipzig, Germany, 12/5/16
  • Progress on MRI-compatible EP catheters, Lecture, Siemens Users Seminar, Interventional MRI Bi-Annual Conference, Leipzig, Germany, 12/5/10

Memberships

  • International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,

    Member

  • International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,

    Member, Young Investigators Award Committee

  • Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance,

    Member

  • American Heart Association,

    Member, Imaging Core

  • American Heart Association,

    Member, 10-Year Atrial Fibrillation Research Committee

  • Interventional MRI Society,

    Member

  • Interventional MRI Society,

    Bi-Annual Meeting Organizing Committee

  • American Physical Society,

    Member

Professional Activities

  • American Heart Association, Scientist Development Grant Reviewer, 1/1/07
  • American Heart Association Committe on 10 Year Guidelines in Atrial Fibrillation Research, Member, 1/1/09 - 1/1/10
  • Israel Science Foundation, Grants Reviewer, 1/1/13
  • Medical Research Council (UK) - UK Government, Grant Reviewer, 1/1/08
  • Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Neuropathies Special Emphasis Panel (NINDS), NIH, Member, 1/1/11
  • NHLBI SBIR Review Committee - NIH, Member, 1/1/08
  • Young Investigator Award Committee, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Member, 1/1/09 - 1/1/14

Expertise

Education

Stanford University

Ph.D., 1987