Rate My Professor Saadallah Ramadan

Associate Professor Saadallah Ramadan is a Conjoint Associate Professor in Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle. He earned his PhD from the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney in 2000. After his doctorate, he researched NMR techniques on red blood cells and the impact of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on rat stomach using NMR. He served as senior researcher at the Institute for Magnetic Resonance Research at Royal North Shore Hospital. In 2007, he took a position as Physicist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, and became an Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, contributing to the development of MRI Research Policy there. His technical expertise includes MRI/MRS pulse sequence development for Siemens platforms, spectroscopic and diffusion-weighted sequences.

Dr. Ramadan joined the University of Newcastle full-time in 2011 as HMRI Imaging Centre Director and Facility Manager in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine. He also serves as Director of MR Research and NIF Node co-director at the University of Newcastle–HMRI Imaging Centre, and Imaging Stream Leader at the Mark Hughes Foundation Centre for Brain Cancer Research. His research focuses on programming and evaluating novel MR imaging and spectroscopic techniques for human diseases, particularly breast, brain (glioblastoma), and prostate MR imaging and spectroscopy, multiple sclerosis, and muscle. He has developed advanced methods like two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2D COSY) at 3T and 7T, phase-rotation spectroscopy, and multi-echo techniques. Key publications include 'Use of in vivo two-dimensional MR spectroscopy to compare the biochemistry of the human brain to that of glioblastoma' (Radiology, 2011), 'IN VIVO 1D and 2D Correlation MR Spectroscopy of the Soleus Muscle at 7T' (Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2010), and 'Phase-Rotation in In-vivo Localised Spectroscopy' (Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, 2007). He has supervised 11 PhD completions, secured over $5.5 million in grants, and attended the Harvard Business School Leadership Program in 2010. With over 210 peer-reviewed papers and 2814 citations on Google Scholar, his work advances clinical translation of MRS.