Lucia Navarro de Lara, PhD

Organization

Massachusetts General Hospital

Program

MGH Research Fellows

Year

2020

For nearly 30 years, the funding provided by the Rappaport Foundation to physicians and researchers has allowed brilliance to flourish and breakthroughs to triumph in the areas of neurologic diseases and mental illness.

Dr. Lucia Navarro de Lara is an RF Engineer for MRI systems at the Athinoula. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Research Fellow in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. She received her MSc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain her MSc. in Biomedical Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and her Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Navarro de Lara’s work focuses on developing dedicated hardware for multimodal brain imaging, especially to combine non-invasive brain stimulation like Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with functional MRI. Her current project consists of building and integrating the first-of-its-kind multichannel TMS array system with a whole head RF coil for MR Imaging. One of the many possible clinical applications of the novel integrated system is the ability to optimize rTMS protocols for the treatment of Major Depression Disorder (MDD) performing close-loop TMS experiments to optimize the target region for the treatment.Dr. Lucia Navarro de Lara is an RF Engineer for MRI systems at the Athinoula. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Research Fellow in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. She received her MSc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain her MSc. in Biomedical Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and her Ph.D. in Medical Physics from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Navarro de Lara’s work focuses on developing dedicated hardware for multimodal brain imaging, especially to combine non-invasive brain stimulation like Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with functional MRI. Her current project consists of building and integrating the first-of-its-kind multichannel TMS array system with a whole head RF coil for MR Imaging. One of the many possible clinical applications of the novel integrated system is the ability to optimize rTMS protocols for the treatment of Major Depression Disorder (MDD) performing close-loop TMS experiments to optimize the target region for the treatment.