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Andreia Vasconcellos Faria

Andreia Vasconcellos Faria, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

About Andreia Vasconcellos Faria

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science

Background

Dr. Andreia Faria earned M.D. degree, residence in Radiology, and Ph.D. degree in Neurosciences from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. Subsequently, she joined the faculty there as a Professor of Radiology. Dr. Faria completed her post-doctoral research in Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University and accepted a position as a Research Associate and then as an Assistant Professor. In 2018, Dr. Faria became an Associate Professor of Radiology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Faria is a neuroscientist with unique expertise in neuroradiology, physics, and computational analysis. She works on technology development and translational research. Dr. Faria work focus on techniques for imaging post-processing, quantification, and multimodal MRI analysis. Dr. Faria applies these techniques to study normal brain development, neurodegenerative disorders, to create artificial intelligence models to characterize MRI patterns, and to access relationship between brain damage and functional deficits.

Dr. Faria has published more than 80 journal articles, one book, holds two patents, and is an investigator in several projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and other research institutes. 

Contact for Research Inquiries

720 Rutland Ave
Baltimore, MD 21205

Research Interests

aphasia, automated MRI segmentation, Brain, DTI, fMRI: atlas-based analysis, MRI, psychosis, stroke

Lab Website

Faria Lab - Lab Website

  • Andreia Faria's Laboratory focuses on investigating brain functions using MRIs. We develop and apply methods for processing and analyzing diverse MRI modalities in order to characterize distinctive brain patterns and to study multiple conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric disorders, and stroke. We use artificial intelligence to develop tools for brain MRI segmentation and quantification, promoting the means to perform reliable and reproducible translational research.

Research Summary

Dr. Faria’s research focuses on the development of brain atlas to performed automated, structure-based analysis, and to access relationships between anatomy and brain function. Dr. Faria works on methodologies to integrate information from multiple MRI contrasts, ultimately aiming to stratify populations and to characterize brain patterns.

Selected Publications

  • Faria AV, Crawford J, Ye C, Hsu J, Kenkare A, Schretlen D, Sawa A. Relationship between neuropsychological behavior and brain white matter in first-episode psychosis. Schizophr Res. 2019;208:49-54. PMCID: 6544495

  • Faria AV, Joel SE, Zhang Y, et al. Atlas-Based Analysis of Resting-State Functional Connectivity: Evaluation for Reproducibiity and Multi-Modal Anatomy-Function Correlation Studies, NeuroImage. 2012; 61(3):613-21. PMCID: 3358461

  • Faria AV, Ratnanather JT, Tward DJ, Lee DS, van den Noort F, Wu D, Brown T, Johnson H, Paulsen JS, Ross CA, Younes L, Miller MI; PREDICT-HD Investigators and Coordinators of the Huntington Study Group. Linking white matter and deep gray matter alterations in premanifest Huntington disease. Neuroimage Clinical. 2016; 11:450-60. PMID: 27104139

  • Li X, Chen L, Kutten K, Ceritoglu C, Li Y, Kang N, Hsu JT, Qiao Y, Wei H, Liu  C, Miller MI, Mori S, Yousem DM, van Zijl PCM, Faria AV. Multi-atlas tool for automated segmentation of brain gray matter nuclei and quantification of their magnetic susceptibility. Neuroimage. 2019 1;191:337-349. PMCID: 6464637

  • Mori S, Oishi K, Jiang H, Jiang L, Li X, Akhter K, Hua K, Faria AV, Mahmood A, Woods R, Toga AW, Pike GB, Neto PR, Evans A, Zhang J, Huang H, Miller MI, van Zijl P, Mazziotta J. Stereotaxic white matter atlas based on diffusion tensor imaging in an ICBM template. Neuroimage. 2008;40(2):570-82. PMCID 2478641

Honors

  • The Discovery Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1/1/19
  • The BRITESTAR Award, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, 1/1/17
  • Co-author of one of the 10 Top-Cited Articles of 2008, NeuroImage, NeuroImage, 1/1/10
  • The Acceleration Translational Incubator Pilot Program Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1/1/10
  • NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship for Foreign Neuroscientists, National Institute of Health, 1/1/07

Expertise

Education

Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Faculdade de Ciencias Medicina - Campinas - Sao Paulo

Ph.D., 2004

Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Faculdade de Ciencias Medicina - Campinas - Sao Paulo

M.D., 1998