Kurani, A.S., Sridhar, J., Barbieri, E., Gutstein, D., Parrish, T.B. (2024, May). Advancing Alzheimer’s Research: An End-to-End PET Workflow Implementation using the Northwestern University Research Image Processing System (NURIPS).

Behn, J., Gutstein, D., Kwon, E., Sridhar, J., Kurani, A.S., Mesulam, M., Parrish, T.B., Barbieri, E. (2024, May). Comparison of Atrophy Measures in Primary Progressive Aphasia.

Gutstein, D., Kwon, E., Pasaye, J., Sridhar, J., Simon, S.N., Chandra, S., Behn, J., Dorn, M., Schneider, N., Chen, Y., Nassan, M., Lapins, A., Avery, R., Rogalski, E., Martersteck, A., Gefen, T., Mather, M., Weintraub, S., Barbieri, E., Mesulam, M., Vassar, R., Kurani, A.S., Parrish, T.B. (2024, May). Northwestern Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Imaging Biomarker Core.

Pasaye, J., Gutstein, D., Sridhar, J., Mather, M., Kurani, A.S., Parrish, T.B. (2024, May). Different Hippocampal Subfield Segmentation Software on Normal Controls and Mild Cognitively Impaired Patients.

Kwon, E., Pasaye, J., Gutstein, D., Kurani, A.S., Behn, J., Bonakdarpour, B., Parrish, T.B. (2024, May). Assessing the Effectiveness of Noise Reduction with Distribution Corrected (NORDIC) PCA Framework in Improving MRI Image Quality.

Chen, Y., Higgins, J.P., Kurani, A.S., Ma, G., Ragin, A.B. (2023, July). Fusion analysis of longitudinal multimodal MRI data from the Chicago Early HIV infection study. (Poster presented at OHBM Montreal, CA)

Kurani, A.S. (October 2021). Cloud Learning and Skills Session: Researcher Spotlight with Ajay Kurani. (Internet2 – Youtube Interview

Amuedo-Dorantes, C., Boettiger, C.B., Bording, P., Brewster, K., Kurani, A.S., Ma, J. (June 2022). Panel Discussion: Researcher Perspectives: What Do Researchers Need from Cyberinfrastructure Facilitators? (University of Oklahoma Supercomputing Center)

Billot, A., Lai, S., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E.J., Rapp, B., Parrish, T.B., Kurani, A.S., Higgins, J., Caplan, D., Thompson, C.K., Ishwar, P., Betke, M., Kiran, S. (2021, June). Prediction of treatment-related language recovery in post-stroke aphasia from neuroimaging and behavioral data. (Poster presented at ACM International Conference Proceeding Series)

Lai, S., Billot, A., Varkanitsa, M., Braun, E.J., Rapp, B., Parrish, T.B., Kurani, A.S., Higgins, J., Caplan, D., Thompson, C.K., Kiran, S., Bette, M., Ishwar, P. (2021, June). An Exploration of Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Post-stroke Aphasia Recovery. (Poster presented at The 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference)

Goldman, J.G., Kurani, A.S., Corcos, D.M. (2019, November). Neurorehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease: Cognition, Neuroimaging biomarkers, and Exercise interventions. (Invited Symposium Speaker at the annual conference for American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Chicago, Illinois)

Reddan, J.M., White, D., Kurani, A.S., Pipingas, A., Macpherson, H., Roswell, R., Parrish, T.B., Schollen, A. (2019, July). Mean Arterial Blood Pressure (MABP) is associated with spatial working memory performance via an effect upon Fornix microstructure in older adults with age-associated memory impairments (AAMI). (Presented at the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Conference)

Chen L., Higgins, J.P., Ingo, C., Kurani, A.S., Parrish, T.P., Prabhakaran, S.  (2018, October).  White matter hyperintensity volume and relation to quality of life and function after acute ischemic stroke.  (Poster presented at the annual conference for World Stroke Congress, Montreal, Canada)

Kurian, S., Garner, C.R., Duque, C., Parrish, T.P., Higgins, J.P., Kurani, A.S., Sedaghat, S., Tan, C.O., Jenkins, L.M., Moscufo, N., Allen, N., Lloyd-Jones, D., Sorond, F.  (2018, July).  Endothelial function may modify the relationship between blood pressure exposure and cerebral small vessel disease in midlife.  (Abstract for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Journal) (IF: 14.423)

Kurani, A.S., Higgins, J.P., Chen, Y.F., Parrish, T.P.​ (2018, June).  Multi-site Diffusion MRI Reproducibility.  (Poster presented at the annual conference for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore)

Higgins, J.P., Kurani, A.S., Chen, Y.F., Parrish, T.P.​ (2018, June).  Sequence and Scanner Effects on Reliability of Resting State Functional Connectivity.  (Poster presented at the annual conference for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore

Meier, E. L., Kiran, S., Kurani, A.S., Higgins, J., Parrish, T., Rapp, B., Caplan, D., & Thompson, C. K. (2018, May). Changes in white matter integrity following sentence processing, naming and spelling treatment for patients with chronic aphasia. (Presented at the Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology (RSCA) at the 48th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Austin, Texas)

Meier, E. L., Pan, Y., Higgins, J.P., Kurani, A.S., Parrish, T.P., Thompson, C. K., & Kiran, S.  (2018, May).  Structural predictors of naming therapy outcomes in persons with aphasia (Poster presented at the annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Austin, Texas)

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Pan, Y., Kurani, A.S., Higgins, J., Parrish, T., Thompson, C. K., & Kiran, S. (2018, March).  Multimodal structural predictors of naming therapy outcomes in persons with aphasia. (Poster presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, Massachusetts)

Kurian, S., Garner, C., Duque, C., Parrish, T.P., Higgins, J.P., Kurani, A.S., Sedaghat, S., Tan, C.O., Moscufo, N., Allen, N., Lloyd-Jones, D., Sorond, F. (2018, March).  Endothelial Function May Modify Relationship between Blood Pressure Exposure and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in Midlife. (Poster presented at the annual Northwestern University Research Day, Chicago, Illinois)

Tessiatore, A., Nguyen, H., Stefely, K., Hufford, A., Manes, J., David, F., Liu, K., Brink-Saeed, K., Corcos, D. M., Kurani, A.S. (2018, February).  Cortical Thickness and Local Gyrification Index Differences in de novo Parkinson’s Disease with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment. (Poster presented at the annual conference for APTA Combined Sections Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana)

Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., Geng, Y., Kurani, A.S., Higgins, J., Parrish, T., Thompson, C. K. & Kiran, S. (2017, November). White matter matters in the recovery of language in post-stroke aphasia. (Poster presentation at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, Maryland)

Kurani, A.S., Burciu, R.G., Seidler, R.D., Okun, M.S., McFarland, Vaillancourt, D.E. (2015, October). Striatal-Motor Cortex Functional Connectivity in Moderate Parkinson’s disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. (Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois)

Kurani, A.S., Lee, Y., Kim, T., Pan, J. W. (2014, November). Improved Resting State fMRI using B0 Correction. (Poster presented at the Pittsburgh MR Imaging Community Retreat, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Kurani, A.S., Seidler, R.D., Corcos, D.M., Okun, M.S., McFarland, N., Comella, C., Vaillancourt, D.E. (2013, November). STN-M1 functional connectivity in de novo and moderate Parkinson’s disease. (Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California)

Planetta, P.J., Kurani, A.S., Shukla, P., Corcos, D.M., Comella, C.L., Okun, M.S., Vaillancourt, D.E. (2013, November). Functional anatomy and connectivity of multiple systems atrophy and Parkinson’s disease. (Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California)

Planetta, P.J., Kurani, A.S., Prodoehl, J., Comella, C.L., Corcos, D.M., & Vaillancourt, D.E. (2011, June). Prefrontal cortex is hypoactive in left- but not right-side most affected de novo Parkinson’s disease. (Poster presented at the annual conference of the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Toronto, ON.)

Annual Alzheimer’s Day - May 2024

Cognitive Brain Mapping Group Data Blitz - April 2023                                                                   

Oklahoma University Supercomputing Center Workshop - June 2022                                                     

Cognitive Brain Mapping Group Data Blitz - May 2022                                                                             

XNAT Workshop 2021 - September 2021                                                                                                 

Internet2 – Cloud Learning and Skills Session - August 2021                                                                    

Midwest MRI Potluck - May 2020                                                                                                            

American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine - November 2019                                                          

Northwestern Radiology Research Day - November 2018                                                                      

Northwestern Radiology Research Day - November 2017                                                                          

Minnesota Workshop on High and Ultra-High Field Imaging - October 2015

Northwestern University – Department of Neurology (Speaker) - April 2015                                         

University of Pittsburgh – Department of Radiology (Speaker) - May 2014                                           

Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases – UCSF (Speaker) - February 2014           

Biomedical Engineering Society/UIC Career Services (Speaker) - April 2010