Jason White

Jason White joined the faculty of Simmons University in 2019, arriving from the Department of Radiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). He was a doctoral student, a post-doctoral fellow, and then faculty member at the Focused Ultrasound Lab (BWH/HMS), where he helped develop a novel way of performing noninvasive brain surgery with ultrasound. He now leverages his training as a physicist, together with the 20-plus years of research on focused ultrasound, to teach and work with his students in the exploration of new techniques for using ultrasound as a tool for neurosurgery, neurology, and neuroscience.

He maintains an active clinical schedule with the BWH Departments of Radiology and Neurosurgery, where he uses MR-guided focused ultrasound to treat patients with essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. He also is involved in an early-stage clinical trial to investigate the use of transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation for treating epilepsy.

Formerly, he had been a classically trained musician (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University), and had spent eight seasons as artist-faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He had performed and recorded in several local venues, including the Berklee College of Music, WGBH, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. Beyond New England, he had performed in several cities throughout North America, including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Chicago, Toronto, and Los Angeles.

Biomedical Ultrasound Lab
 

Courses

• CHEM 390-01 Chemistry Seminar
• PHYS 114-01 Funds of Physics I
• PHYS 114-LC Funds of Physics I
• PHYS 114/MATH121 – LCIS - 01
• PHYS 114G-01 Funds of Physics I GIL
• PHYS 114L-LC Fund. Physics Lab
• PHYS 355-02 Independent Study with Thesis
• PHYS 390-01 Physics Seminar
• CHEM 390-01 Chemistry Seminar
• PHYS 233-01 Introduction to Medical Imaging
• PHYS 300-01 Mechanics
• PHYS 333-01 Biomedical Ultrasound Physics