Tatiana Wolfe, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor

Dr. Tatiana Wolfe is a tenure track assistant professor medical imaging physicist within our group. Dr. Wolfe received her bachelor’s and her doctorate degrees in Medical Physics from the Department of Physics of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), in Brazil, where Dr. Wolfe has trained extensively in computational modeling of radiation transport using Monte Carlo simulations, soft matter interactions, molecular, biophysical and physiological processes. Dr. Wolfe has completed an undergraduate fellowship at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center between 2012-2013 in investigating cellular effects of radiation interaction with internalized gold nanoparticles. Dr. Wolfe continued to be a postdoctoral fellow for the two following years in the same department working with preclinical experimental radiation oncology and ultra-high field cancer MRI. In 2015, Dr. Wolfe joined the Horner Lab in the Center for Neuroregeneration at the Houston Methodist Hospital and Research Institute, in Texas, to expand the work in developing a new MRI technology for imaging myelination changes in brain and spinal cord in vivo. Dr. Wolfe is author of two U.S. Patents and two new disclosures under filling, both related to neuroregenerative electrical stimulation intervention (‘nSIM devices and methods thereof’; ‘Intracavitary physiological feedback loop vagal stimulation for stroke control’), and non invasive cellular molecular MRI measurements (‘Signal Isolation MRI’, ‘SHIFT Echo MRI’). Dr. Wolfe has served as medical imaging physicist research scientist in the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging and at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital at the Ohio State University until 2021. In March 2022, Dr. Wolfe joined the Department of Psychiatry at UAMS to spearhead the research program in imaging brain neural regeneration. Dr. Wolfe’s research is specially concerned with structural changes that occur in brain networks of patients suffering from accelerated mental illness. Her research focus include the socially disconnected elderly, people living with multiple sclerosis and cancer survivors who suffer from cognitive decline. Dr. Wolfe has an extensive collaboration network at UAMS and beyond, and work in the interdisciplinary boundaries of physics and medicine.