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Ph.D. - Biomedical Engineering - University of California at Davis
B.S. - Chemical Engineering - New Mexico Tech

New Mexico Tech
Assistant Professor (August 2007 - present)

UC Davis Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging
Postdoctoral Researcher (October 2006 - August 2007)

Sandia National Lab
Intern (May 2001 - August 2002)

* Targeted drug delivery systems
* Lipid based drug delivery particles (nanoparticles, liposomes, microbubbles, etc)
* High resolution molecular imaging for small animal imaging
* Validation methods for drug delivery techniques
* Micro-encapsulation methods

Tartis MS, McCallan J, LaBell R, Stieger SM, Matsunaga TO, Ferrara KW. Therapeutic effects of paclitaxel-containing ultrasound contrast agents. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (accepted, in press)

Shortencarier MJ, Dayton PA, LaBell R, Schumann PA, Matsunaga TO, Ferrara KW. Targeted chemotherapy delivery with ultrasound. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (Sept 18 -21 Session 2C-2)

Shortencarier MJ, Dayton PA, Bloch SH, Schumann PA, Matsunaga TO, Ferrara KW. A method for radiation-force localized drug delivery using gas-filled lipospheres. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2004 Jul;51(7):822-31.

Tartis MS, Marik J, Kheirolomoom A, Pollard RE, Zhang H, Qi J, Sutcliffe JL, Ferrara, KW. Pharmacokinetics of encapsulated paclitaxel: multi-probe analysis with PET. Mol Imaging. 2006 July;5(3):427-428.

Marik J, Zhang H, Tartis MS, Kheirolomoom A, Sutcliffe JL, Ferrara KW. Synthesis of 18F radiolabeled lipid and examples of its application. Mol Imaging. 2006 July;5(3):366.

Shortencarier MJ, Matsunaga TO, Schumann PA, LaBell R, Ferrara KW. Targeted Chemotherapy Delivery with Ultrasound. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. Sept:213-214.

Marik J, Shortencarier M, Pollard R, Johnson J, Matsunaga T, Kruse D, Ferrara KW, Sutcliffe-Goulden J. [F-18]Fluoropaclitaxel-containing vehicles for ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery. Imaging in 2020 IV. September, 2005.

Shortencarier MJ, McCallan J, Marik J, Pollard R, Stieger SM, Johnson J, Matsunaga TO, Kruse D, Ferrara KW. Imaging ultrasound enhancement of drug delivery: efficacy and biodistribution. Mol Imaging. 2005 Jul-Sept;4(3):367-368.

Shortencarier MJ, Dayton PA, Bloch SH, Schumann PA, LaBell R, Matsunaga TO, Ferrara KW. A new targeted imaging and drug delivery method using ultrasound and acoustically active lipospheres. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America Meeting. 2005 April;117(4):2473.

Shortencarier MJ, Dayton PA, Bloch SH, Schumann PA, LaBell R, Matsunaga TO, Ferrara KW. A new targeted imaging and drug delivery method using ultrasound and acoustically active lipospheres. Tenth Annual Cancer Research Symposium. 2004:49.

Shortencarier MJ, Dayton PA, Bloch SH, Schumann PA, LaBell R, Matsunaga TO, Ferrara KW. A new targeted imaging and drug delivery method using ultrasound and acoustically active lipospheres. Mol Imaging. 2004 Jul;3(3):273.

Unger EC, Zutshi R, LaBell R, Schumann PA, Dayton PA, Shortencarier M, Bloch S, Ferrara K, Matsunaga TO. Overcoming biological barriers with acoustically active carriers and ultrasound. Mol Imaging. 2004 Jul;3(3):203.

Shortencarier MJ, Dayton PA, Pearson D, Schumann PA, Zutshi R, Matsunaga TO, Ferrara KW. Ultrasound radiation force on acoustically-active lipospheres for drug delivery. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. Oct: 73-74, 400.

* Society of Molecular Imaging
* IEEE Ultrasound, Ferroelectronics, and Frequency Control

* Achievement Rewards for College Scientist Scholar, 2005
* NIH Training Grant Trainee, 2005 - present
* Awarded travel funds to four international conferences based on abstract submission, 2005-2006
* Best Poster Award, Cancer Symposium 2004
* Student paper finalist, IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2003
* NIH-IMSD Fellowship 2003 - 2005
* Cramer Award (Highest GPA in graduating class), New Mexico Tech 2002
* Student Appreciation Award, New Mexico Tech 2001