Catherine N Steffel, PhD

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Education

• B.S., Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
• M.S., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017
• Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Quantitative Ultrasound

Doctoral Research Advisor:

Carol C. Mitchell, Ph.D

Doctoral Research Mentor:

Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation: 

In-vivo Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging of Carotid Plaque Validated with 3D Reconstructed Histopathology Sections, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Positions

• 03/2021-Present, University Relations Specialist, Biochemistry, Madison, WI
• 09/2020-01/2021, Research Assistant, Medical Physics, Madison, WI
• 05/2018-08/2020, Research Fellow, Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship (F31), Medical Physics, Madison, WI
• 09/2017-05/2018, Teaching Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
• 09/2015-08/2017, CVRC Trainee, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine Training Grant

Awards and Honors

Memberships

• Student Member, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)

Publications @ UW

• C.C. Mitchell, S.M. Wilbrand, T.D. Cook, N.H. Meshram, C.N. Steffel, R. Nye, Tomy Varghese, B.P. Hermann, R.J. Dempsey, "Carotid Plaque Strain Indices were Correlated with Cognitive Performance in a Cohort with Advanced Atherosclerosis and Traditional Doppler Measures Demonstrated no Association”, J. Ultrasound Med, Vol. 39, No. 10, pp. 2033-2042, doi: 10.1002/jum.15311, PMCID: PMC7531894, 2020. [Abstract]
• C.N. Steffel, M.S. Salamat, T.D. Cook, S.M. Wilbrand, R.J. Dempsey, C.C. Mitchell, Tomy Varghese, “Attenuation Coefficient Parameter Computations for Tissue Composition Assessment of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque in-vivo”, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 1513-1532, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.02.015, PMCID: PMC7216316, 2020. [Abstract]
• C.N. Steffel, R. Brown, C.E. Korcarz, Tomy Varghese, J.H. Stein, S.M. Wilbrand, R.J. Dempsey, C.C. Mitchell, "Influence of Ultrasound System and Gain Settings on Grayscale Median Values”, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 307-319, doi: 10.1002/jum.14690, PMCID: PMC6339613, 2019. [Abstract]
• C. C. Mitchell, S.M. Wilbrand, B. Kundu, C.N. Steffel, Tomy Varghese, N.H. Meshram, G. Li, T.D. Cook, M.S. Salamat, R.J. Dempsey, "Transcranial Doppler and Microemboli Detection: Relationships to Symptomatic Status and Histopathology Findings", Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology,Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 1861-1867, doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2017.04.025, 2017. [Abstract]

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