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Board of Honors Tutors
Dr. Randy Gollub
Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Neuroscience in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Director of the Imaging Consortium at the Harvard Catalyst
Director of the MGH Biomedical Imaging Core facility
rgollub@partners.org
Would consider serving as:
Thesis Adviser
Research Placement
Research Interests:
Together with the members of the Catalyst Imaging Consortium, Dr. Gollub works to translate advances in medical imaging technologies (acquisition, analysis and visualization) into greater contributions for clinical translational research by education, consultation, and direct logistical support for investigators.
The primary focus of Dr. Gollub's own research is at the interface between the technological advancement of neuroimaging acquisition and analysis methods and their application to basic and clinical neuroscience. In her own laboratory, she applies functional neuroimaging methods to the investigation of pain perception and the modulation of pain perception by placebo and acupuncture. By using the novel treatment modality of acupuncture, a system of healing still quite new in this country, Dr. Gollub and her colleagues are able to control for confounds due to prior conditioning that are associated with more commonly studied analgesic treatment modalities (pills or topical creams). They have demonstrated that there are multiple mechanisms by which the human brain can modulate pain perception and have proposed a theoretical framework for interpreting the seemingly disparate neuroimaging findings reported in the literature.
Another domain of Dr. Gollub's research program is the calibration and validation of neuroimaging data vital to the development of viable neuroimaging biomarkers. As site PI for a multi-site clinical imaging investigation of schizophrenia, and site Co-PI for the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) test bed in Morphometry, Dr. Gollub directly contributes to the technological advancement of quantitative biomedical imaging and image analysis methods and their application to neuropsychiatric disorders. These venues provide platforms for dissemination of these solutions and methods to the broader scientific community.
Dr. Gollub has a long-standing commitment to education. A member of the affiliate faculty of the Harvard Massachusetts Institute of Technology division of Health Sciences Technology (HST) she serves as Chair of their Biomedical Imaging Education Committee, Co-Training Director of the HST MEMP Neuroimaging Training Program, and Course Director for HST.583 fMRI Data Acquisition and Analysis. She is the Principle Investigator of the Training Core for the National Alliance for Medical Computing (NAMIC), a National Center for Biomedical Computing (NCBC).
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