Blaise Frederick

Blaise deB. Frederick, PhD, is an associate professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an associate biophysicist at McLean Hospital. He is also director of the Technical and Instrumentation Core at the McLean Imaging Center. He received a BS in physics from Yale University and a PhD in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. His training is in MR physics and his PhD thesis is entitled “Three Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Sodium Ions Using Stochastic Excitation and Oscillating Gradients.”

Dr. Frederick is also the director of the McLean Imaging Center’s Opto-Magnetic Group, and his current research is focused on multimodal acquisition and processing for hemodynamic quantitation and physiological denoising of BOLD data and device development for clinical evaluation of peripheral vascular physiology.

Companies

• Biophysicist/Associate Professor of Psychiatry McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2013)
• Director, Technical and Instrumentation Core, Brain Imaging Laboratory McLean Hospital (2009)
• Adjunct Professor Tufts University (1999)
• Associate Biophysicist/Assistant Professor of Psychiatry McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1995 — 2013)
• Scientific Director, 4T imaging facility McLean Hospital (2001 — 2009)
• Imaging Center Scientific Computing Coordinator McLean Hospital (1995 — 2009)
• Scientific Director 4T Magnetic Resonance Facility, McLean Hospital (2001 — 2009)
• Instructor Harvard Medical School (1996 — 2002)
• High Field Scanner Acquisition Manager McLean Hospital (1999 — 2001)