Angela Edwards credits a college injury with focusing her interest on medicine and medical research. The outstanding care she received after the injury spurred her desire to pass it on.
Edwards earned a Bachelor of Health Science from Baptist College of Health Sciences in Memphis (2005). She received certification for radiography (R) (2005) and magnetic resonance (MR) (2007) from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT).
She currently works as an advanced image processing specialist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Diagnostic Imaging. In that role she organizes and analyzes MRI data for clinical interpretation and research. Her current interests are brain tumor imaging and analysis, particularly diffuse midline gliomas.
“Working with radiologists and scientists on various projects pushed me to grow my skills in clinical investigation and data analysis. I will apply the knowledge gained from the master’s program in Clinical Investigations to advance treatment of pediatric brain tumors.”
Education
BHS - Baptist College of Health Sciences, Memphis TN (2005)
Certification for Radiography - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (2005)
Certification Magnetic Resonance - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (2007)
Publications
Smith, K. S., et al. (2022). "Unified rhombic lip origins of group 3 and group 4 medulloblastoma." Nature 609(7929): 1012-1020.
Zhang S, Edwards A, Wang S, Patay Z, Bag A, Scoggins MA. “A Prior Knowledge Based Tumor and Tumoral Subregion Segmentation Tool for Pediatric Brain Tumors” arXiv.org. 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14775
Ji Q, Edwards A, Glass JO, Brinkman TM, Patay Z, Reddick WE. “Measurement of Projections Between Dentate Nucleus and Contralateral Frontal Cortex in Human Brain Via Diffusion Tensor Tractography” Cerebellum. 2019 Aug;18(4):761-769.
Svolos P, Reddick WE, Edwards A, Sykes A, Li Y, Glass JO, Patay Z. “Measurable Supratentorial White Matter Volume Changes in Patients with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Treated with an Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Agent, Steroids, and Radiation” AJNR. 2017 Jun;38(6):1235-1241.
Löbel U, Hwang S, Edwards A, Li Y, Li X, Broniscer A, Patay Z. “Discrepant longitudinal volumetric and metabolic evolution of diffuse intrinsic Pontine gliomas during treatment: implications for current response assessment strategies” Neuroradiology. 2016 Oct;58(10):1027-1034.
Clerk-Lamalice O, Reddick WE, Li X, Li Y, Edwards A, Glass JO, Patay Z. “MRI Evaluation of Non-Necrotic T2-Hyperintense Foci in Pediatric Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma” AJNR. 2016 Oct;37(10):1930-1937.