Our Team

Dr. Harris is a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, director of the 3D Imaging Service, the Radiology Computer Aided Diagnostics Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Tumor Imaging Metrics Core Lab of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Dr. Harris has published over 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and has developed software and services that apply computer analyses of medical images to aid in diagnosis, treatment planning and clinical trials. Dr. Harris’ primary research interests include structural and functional brain imaging research in psychiatric and neurologic illnesses, including alcoholism and stroke, as well as quantitative tracking of tumors for clinical care and clinical trials. He holds a PhD in radiation health sciences from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and a BS in electrical engineering from Lafayette College.

Annick D. Van den Abbeele is known nationally and internationally for her translational research in molecular imaging and her pioneering work in monitoring response to targeted therapy in several cancers. She is responsible for developing an integrated clinical and research cancer imaging department and is considered a leader in the implementation and development of quantitative metrics in cancer imaging. An associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Van den Abbeele also serves as the chief of the Department of Imaging and founding director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She holds a BA and MD from the University of Louvain in Belgium and is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Van den Abbeele has mentored more than 100 trainees, received several awards and serves on national and international scientific advisory boards and review panels, program progress review groups and several committees. She has authored more than 200 scientific articles and abstracts, edited 2 textbooks, authored and co-authored 22 book chapters and presented numerous lectures and workshops nationally and internationally.

A consultant for our team since 2009, Cheryl Sadow has extensive experience with multicenter clinical trials that involve radiological response assessment criteria. Dr. Sadow is the Chief of the Drugs Trials Unit and a staff radiologist in the Division of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She holds a BA in biological sciences from Harvard University and an MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.