In this archived one hour OAMRS Wednesday Webinar presentation, Dr. Sean Deoni, PhD, Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation, provides an overview of the use of MRI to characterize neurodevelopment from fetal through adolescent development and its relationship to a child's living environment. He then explores differences in development across the world, including many low and middle income settings, introducing the use of new low-field strength MRI scanners. Building on these results, he also examines the use of portable low-field MRI in high resource settings as a way to improve access, particularly among rural populations.

Year: 2025

Prerequisites: None

Speaker Information

Dr. Sean Deoni, PhD, Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation. Dr. Deoni received his PhD in medical biophysics from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, and postdoctoral research fellowships at the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and Oxford University UK. Dr. Deoni is an associate professor of pediatrics (research) and associate professor of diagnostic imaging (research) at Brown University and a Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation. As a physicist by training, his research interests focus on understanding the biological basis of the MRI signal and developing novel techniques to investigate brain tissue and microstructure.

Advances in Pediatric MRI: From the Highs to the Lows

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