Elisa Konofagou is a Greek biomedical engineer in the field of medical ultrasound. She is the Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology (Physics) at Columbia University in New York. Konofagou is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and she received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007.
Education
Konofagou graduated with her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Paris VI University and master's degree from Imperial College in 1992 and 1993, respectively. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in 1999 from the University of Houston for her research in elastography at the University of Texas Medical School. She completed postdoctoral research in elasticity-based monitoring of focused ultrasound therapy at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She received a Fulbright U.S. Inter-country Award in 2019.
Career
Research interests
Konofagou heads the Ultrasound Elasticity and Imaging Laboratory (UEIL), which works on developing novel ultrasound techniques for imaging and therapeutics. Her main interests are related to elasticity imaging, including harmonic motion imaging, pulse wave imaging, and electromechanical wave imaging. The clinical foci of the UEIL include breast, ligament, and myocardial elastography, as well as focused ultrasound therapy related to the blood-brain barrier. Konofagou maintains several clinical collaborations with the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
Teaching
Konofagou was an instructor and postdoctoral fellow at Bringham Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School) from 2002 to 2003. Subsequently, she gained assistant (2003) and associate (2009) professorship roles in the departments of radiology and biomedical engineering at Columbia University. She is currently a professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at Columbia. She also served as the graduate chair of biomedical engineering in 2015.
Awards
Awards received by Konofagou include: Young Investigator Award, Acoustical Society of America, 2002 New Investigator Award, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2006 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2007 Nagy Award by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering – NIH, 2007 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2014 Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2017 Bodossaki Foundation Award of Scientific Excellence in Applied Science, 2017
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Biomedical engineers Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni Alumni of Imperial College London University of Houston alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine Greek engineers Greek women engineers Columbia University faculty Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering