Claudia Kirsch

Dr. Kirsch is a Professor of Neuroradiology Division in the Yale Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging in Neuroradiology.

She is a Fellow in the American College of Radiology and American Society of Functional Neuroradiology,  and doing PhD Thesis research with neopath.org at the University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry on “Viral mediated disease in the skull base, head and neck”, utilizing high resolution 7T MRI  at the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII) at Mount Sinai Medical Center and artificial intelligence to enhance understanding of how viruses affect the skull base with advisors Dr Ali Khurram PhD, Senior Honorary Consultant Pathologist, Professor Daniel Lambert   Ph.D.   Chair Molecular Cell Biology and in 7T MRI labs under tPriti Balchandani PhD, Professor and Director Advanced Neuroimaging Research Program (ANRP), BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII) at Mount Sinai Medical Center under NIH grants, NIH R21NS122389,  NIH R01CA202911.

Dr. Kirsch received the American Society of Neuroimaging Oldendorf award for MRI 2COSY of spinal cord trauma, numerous research and teaching awards, and international accolades for Primal pictures anatomy.tv award-winning educational interactive 3-D software of head and neck anatomy.

She is on the Editorial board of Clinical Imaging and Frontiers, has numerous peer-reviewed publications and is former Vice-Chair of Expert Panel on Neuroimaging for the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Use Criteria Committee, and American Society of Neuroradiology Collaborative Committee for Practice Parameters in Computed Tomography of the Head and Neck. 

She is recently elected to the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR) Executive Committee as the Senior Member at Large and is current Chair of the ASHNR Research Committee. She is also just elected to the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), Leaders in Advocating Diversity & Inclusion in Radiology (LADIR) Special Interest Group (SIG), dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and Program Committee, Value Based Healthcare Committee and Research Committee of the North American Skull Base Society (NASBS).

She has in the past and continues to serve on   Educational, Program and Research Committees for the ASNR, ASHNR, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), American Society of Functional Imaging, American Association of Woman Radiologists, and is Past President of the Eastern Neuroradiological Society. She is an invited speaker nationally and internationally on skull base and head and neck imaging and pathology.

Her PhD focus, current research and publications are on skull base and viral mediated pathology in the head and neck including Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Human Papilloma virus (HPV), Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) and SARs-CoV-2 COVID19, including current co-investigator on a Foundation Government Clinical Trial assessing   Phase III trials, and a Primary Investigator Grant recipient, analyzing   Pseudotumor Cerebri.  

Prior grants and research led to national and international presentations, including a TEDx talk on imaging how cancer “hitchhikes” via perineural invasion through the skull base. As a Neuroradiologist and PhD researcher she believes in fostering positive teaching, collaborative and inspiring environments that lead to improved patient outcomes, innovative teaching and research, and scientific advancement.