The Grainger College of Engineering
Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering

Michael Aref

Michael Aref
Michael Aref
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Education

  • M.D. University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
  • Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
  • M.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
  • B.S. Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996

Academic Positions

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, 2007 - present

Professional Registrations

  • Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C), 2022
  • Hospice Medical Director Certification (HMDC), 2019
  • Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (FASAM), 2022
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (FAAHPM), 2018
  • Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM), 2016
  • Fellow American College of Physicians (FACP), 2012

Selected Articles in Journals

  • Konda, S.D., Aref, M., Brechbiel, M., Wiener, E.C., "Development of a tumor targeting magnetic resonance contrast agent utilizing the high affinity folate receptor--work in progress," Invest Radiol. 2000 Jan; 35(1):50-7.
  • Konda, S.D., Aref, M., Wang, S.J., Brechbiel, M., Wiener, E.C., "Specific targeting of folate-dendrimer MRI contrast agents to the high affinity folate receptor expressed in ovarian tumor xenografts, "MAGMA, 2001 May; 12(2-3):104-113.
  • Aref, M., Brechbiel, M., Wiener, E.C.," Identifying tumor vascular permeability heterogeneity with magnetic resonance imaging contract agents," Invest Radiol. 2002 Apr; 37(4):178-92.
  • Aref, M., Handbury, J.D., Ji J..X., Aref S., Weiner E.C., "Spatial and temporal resolution effects on hynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance mammography," Magn Reson Imaging, 2007 Jan; 25(1): 14-34.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • Aref, M, Handbury, J.D., Ji, J.X., Bailey, K. L., Liang Z. P., Wiener, E. C. " Effect of reduced encoding kynamic data size on permeability-surface area estimation," Proc. ISMR 12th Annual Meeting. Kyoto, Japan. 2004. p. 2378.
  • Xu, D., Wiener, E.C., Aref, M., Ying, L., Ji, J.X., Liang Z. P, " Integrating parallel imaging with generalized series for accelerated dynamic imaging," Proc. 27th Ann. Intl. Conf. IEEE Engr. in Med. and Biol. Soc. Shanghai, China, 2005. p. 1423.

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