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January 23, 2026

UCSF @ ASPNR 2026

Group photo of UCSF faculty, alumni, and trainees standing indoors behind large illuminated ASPNR letters, smiling at the camera, with conference badges visible and a city view through floor to ceiling windows in the background.

Our department had a phenomenal showing at this year's ASPNR in Tampa, FL. Orit Glenn served on the planning committee and worked to ensure our tradition of sponsoring learners and young faculty, with many UCSF alumni and faculty speaking at the meeting. Continuing our tradition of excellence, UCSF faculty, alumni, and learners received awards at the meeting (see below). UCSF faculty speakers included Matt Barkovich, Elizabeth George, Orit Glenn, Yi Li, and Steve Hetts.  UCSF alumni speakers included Benita Tamrazi, Bruno Soares, Stephen Kralik, Michael Regner, Amanda Baker, Erin Simon Schwartz, and Mark Mamlouk (also UCSF volunteer clinical physician). UCSF alum Priya Rajagopalan and UCSF alum and clinical professor-volunteer Camilla Lindan served as moderators. Camilla Lindan organized the YPS mentor mixer reception which was a huge success.

Honors and Awards

  • Elizabeth George received the annual Guerbet Research Award in the amount of $25,000 for her project: Estimation of T2* relaxation from Susceptibility Weighted Angiography (SWAN): Application in Congenital Heart Disease.

Poster Cum Laude Award

  • Using in vivo MR Imaging as a Biomarker for the Expanded Neonatal Subventricular Zone
    Duan Xu, Evan Calabrese, Yi Li, and collaborators in neurology

Poster Spotlight

  • Effect of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health on Fetal Brain Volume.
    Siddharthasiva Anbu Rajan presented the poster. Collaborators included Palveen Sebkhon, Orit Glenn, Dimitrios Mitsouras, Duan Xu, Andreas Rauschecker, Elizabeth George.
  • Notably, 4 of this year’s 10 new awarded Fellows of the ASPNR are UCSF alumni—
    • Patricia Ellen Grant, Boston Children's Hospital
    • Mai-Lan Ho, University of Missouri
    • Stephen Kralik, Texas Children's Hospital
    • Bruno Soares, Stanford University

Oral Presentation and Posters

Oral Presentation

  • Association between Perinatal Risk Factors and MRI Injury with Arc Volume in Neonates with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy
    Melissa Coloma, Aunoy Poddar, Quanhao Sun, Duan Xu, Evan Calabrese, Hannah C. Glass, Yvonne W. Wu, Hosung Kim, Mercedes Paredes, Yi Li

Posters

  • Evaluation of Vendor-Developed Deep Learning-Based Reconstruction of Fetal MRI Images. 
    Siddharthasiva Anbu Rajan, Elizabeth George, Amy Kuang, Duan Xu, Orit A. Glenn
  • Imaging Characteristics of the Middle Interhemispheric Variant of Holoprosencephaly on fetal MRI
    Atlas Haddadi Avval, Orit Glenn, Andreas M. Rauschecker
  • Infected neonatal subgaleal hematomas: A Case Series
    Michael Romano, Megan Garcia-Curran, Andreas Rauschecker, Yi Li, Nalin Gupta, Sravani Kondapavulur, Dawn Gano, Orit Glenn, Peter P. Sun, Noura Dababo, Raymond Sze, Camilla Lindan
  • Patterns of Acute Brain Injury in a Population of Newborns Who Lack Clinical Criteria for Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
    Yi Li, Marie-Coralie Cornet, Aditi Lahiri, Michael Kuzniewicz, Yvonne W. Wu
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