Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., Blagoveshensk State Medical University (Russia) 1993
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Radiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiology 2013 - 2020
  • Clinical Associate in the Department of Radiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiology 2012 - 2013
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • EGFRvIII-targeted Bispecific T cell Engagers for brain tumors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2019
  • Development of a Therapeutic for Brain Tumor Immunotherapy awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2019
  • Brain tumors with regulatory T-cells treated with EGFRvIII-specific T-cells awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2018
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Zhang, Tian, Julie Kephart, Elizabeth Bronson, Monika Anand, Christine Daly, Ivan Spasojevic, Subha Bakthavatsalam, et al. “Prospective clinical trial of disulfiram plus copper in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.” Prostate 82, no. 7 (May 2022): 858–66. https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.24329.
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    • James, Olga G., Alexandra R. Linares, Caroline Hellegers, P Murali Doraiswamy, and Terence Z. Wong. “Evaluating Alzheimer Disease With Flortaucipir and Florbetapir PET: A Clinical Case Series.” Clin Nucl Med 46, no. 7 (July 1, 2021): 605–8. https://doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0000000000003493.
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    • Hu, William T., Tugba Ozturk, Alexander Kollhoff, Whitney Wharton, J. Christina Howell, and J. Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. “Higher CSF sTNFR1-related proteins associate with better prognosis in very early Alzheimer's disease.” Nat Commun 12, no. 1 (June 28, 2021): 4001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24220-7.
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    • Daubert, Melissa A., Tina Tailor, Olga James, Leslee J. Shaw, Pamela S. Douglas, and Lynne Koweek. “Multimodality cardiac imaging in the 21st century: evolution, advances and future opportunities for innovation.” Br J Radiol 94, no. 1117 (January 1, 2021): 20200780. https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200780.
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    • Napier, Kyle J., Michael E. Lidsky, Olga G. James, and Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner. “Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pumps: What the Radiologist Needs to Know.” Radiographics 41, no. 3 (2021): 895–908. https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.2021200130.
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    • Fudim, Marat, Mouhammad Fathallah, Linda K. Shaw, Olga James, Zainab Samad, Jonathan P. Piccini, Paul L. Hess, and Salvador Borges-Neto. “The prognostic value of diastolic and systolic mechanical left ventricular dyssynchrony among patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure.” J Nucl Cardiol 27, no. 5 (October 2020): 1622–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-019-01843-4.
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    • Schwartz, Fides R., Olga James, Phillip H. Kuo, Marlys H. Witte, Lynne M. Koweek, and Waleska M. Pabon-Ramos. “Lymphatic Imaging: Current Noninvasive and Invasive Techniques.” Semin Intervent Radiol 37, no. 3 (August 2020): 237–49. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1713441.
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    • Kelsey, Chris R., Gloria Broadwater, Olga James, Junzo Chino, Louis Diehl, Anne W. Beaven, Catherine Chang, Bridget F. Koontz, and Leonard R. Prosnitz. “Phase 2 Study of Dose-Reduced Consolidation Radiation Therapy in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.” Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 105, no. 1 (September 1, 2019): 96–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2019.02.055.
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    • Young, Alexandra L., Razvan V. Marinescu, Neil P. Oxtoby, Martina Bocchetta, Keir Yong, Nicholas C. Firth, David M. Cash, et al. “Uncovering the heterogeneity and temporal complexity of neurodegenerative diseases with Subtype and Stage Inference.” Nat Commun 9, no. 1 (October 15, 2018): 4273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05892-0.
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    • James, Olga, and Salvador Borges-Neto. “Scintigraphic outlook of patients and regions with myocardial necrosis at myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.” J Nucl Cardiol 25, no. 2 (April 2018): 506–7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-017-0796-0.
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    • James, Olga, and Salvador Borges-Neto. “Erratum to: Scintigraphic outlook of patients and regions with myocardial necrosis at myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.” J Nucl Cardiol 25, no. 2 (April 2018): 508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-017-0861-8.
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    • Klinger, Rebecca Y., Olga G. James, Salvador Borges-Neto, Tiffany Bisanar, Yi-Ju Li, Wenjing Qi, Miles Berger, et al. “18F-florbetapir Positron Emission Tomography-determined Cerebral β-Amyloid Deposition and Neurocognitive Performance after Cardiac Surgery.” Anesthesiology 128, no. 4 (April 2018): 728–44. https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000002103.
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    • Howard, Brandon A., Rustain Morgan, Matthew P. Thorpe, Timothy G. Turkington, Jorge Oldan, Olga G. James, and Salvador Borges-Neto. “Comparison of Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction versus OS-EM for characterization of small pulmonary nodules in oncologic PET/CT.” Ann Nucl Med 31, no. 8 (October 2017): 623–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12149-017-1192-1.
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    • James, Olga, Robert Pagnanelli, and Salvador-Borges Neto. “Resolution recovery and noise regularization in nuclear cardiology.” J Nucl Cardiol 24, no. 1 (February 2017): 138–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-016-0532-1.
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    • Yerubandi, Vijay, James Ronald, Brandon A. Howard, Paul V. Suhocki, Olga G. James, Terence Z. Wong, and Charles Y. Kim. “Patient and tumor characteristics predictive of an elevated hepatopulmonary shunt fraction before radioembolization of hepatic tumors.” Nucl Med Commun 37, no. 9 (September 2016): 939–46. https://doi.org/10.1097/MNM.0000000000000528.
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    • Iturria-Medina, Y., R. C. Sotero, P. J. Toussaint, J. M. Mateos-Pérez, A. C. Evans, and A. C. Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. “Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer's disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis.” Nat Commun 7 (June 21, 2016): 11934. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11934.
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    • Risacher, Shannon L., Brenna C. McDonald, Eileen F. Tallman, John D. West, Martin R. Farlow, Fredrick W. Unverzagt, Sujuan Gao, et al. “Association Between Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognition, Brain Metabolism, and Brain Atrophy in Cognitively Normal Older Adults.” Jama Neurol 73, no. 6 (June 1, 2016): 721–32. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.0580.
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    • Ayton, Scott, Noel G. Faux, Ashley I. Bush, and Ashley I. Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. “Ferritin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid predict Alzheimer's disease outcomes and are regulated by APOE.” Nat Commun 6 (May 19, 2015): 6760. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7760.
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    • James, Olga G., P Murali Doraiswamy, and Salvador Borges-Neto. “PET Imaging of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease and Tauopathies.” Front Neurol 6 (2015): 38. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2015.00038.
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    • Oldan, Jorge Daniel, Samuel Kuzminski, and Olga James. “Ivory vertebra on 18F-sodium fluoride scan: an old sign in a new modality.” Clin Nucl Med 39, no. 11 (November 2014): 972–74. https://doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0000000000000379.
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    • Oldan, Jorge D., Olga G. James, Paul J. Mosca, Douglas S. Tyler, and Salvador Borges-Neto. “Two-day lymphoscintigraphic imaging for melanoma.” Nucl Med Commun 35, no. 8 (August 2014): 870–75. https://doi.org/10.1097/MNM.0000000000000136.
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    • Chin, Bennett B., James F. Kronauge, Frank J. Femia, Jianqing Chen, Kevin P. Maresca, Shawn Hillier, Neil A. Petry, et al. “Phase-1 clinical trial results of high-specific-activity carrier-free 123I-iobenguane.” J Nucl Med 55, no. 5 (May 2014): 765–71. https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.113.124057.
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    • Klinger, Rebecca Y., Olga G. James, Terence Z. Wong, Mark F. Newman, P Murali Doraiswamy, and Joseph P. Mathew. “Cortical β-amyloid levels and neurocognitive performance after cardiac surgery.” Bmj Open 3, no. 9 (September 20, 2013): e003669. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003669.
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    • Shah, Dipan J., Han W. Kim, Olga James, Michele Parker, Edwin Wu, Robert O. Bonow, Robert M. Judd, and Raymond J. Kim. “Prevalence of regional myocardial thinning and relationship with myocardial scarring in patients with coronary artery disease.” Jama 309, no. 9 (March 6, 2013): 909–18. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.1381.
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    • James, Olga G., Jared D. Christensen, Terence Z. Wong, Salvador Borges-Neto, and Lynne M. Koweek. “Utility of FDG PET/CT in inflammatory cardiovascular disease.” Radiographics 31, no. 5 (2011): 1271–86. https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.315105222.
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    • James, O., and R. E. Coleman. “Radioiodinated MIBG in paraganglioma and pheochromocytoma: previous results and early experiences using no-carrier-added MIBG.” Nuclear Medicine and Biology 35, no. SUPPL.1 (August 1, 2008). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2008.06.002.
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    • Weinsaft, Jonathan W., Han W. Kim, Dipan J. Shah, Igor Klem, Anna Lisa Crowley, Rhoda Brosnan, Olga G. James, et al. “Detection of left ventricular thrombus by delayed-enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance prevalence and markers in patients with systolic dysfunction.” J Am Coll Cardiol 52, no. 2 (July 8, 2008): 148–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2008.03.041.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Fudim, Marat, Mouhammad Fathallah, Linda K. Shaw, Peter R. Liu, Olga James, Zainab Samad, Jonathan P. Piccini, Paul L. Hess, and Salvador Borges-Neto. “The Prognostic Value of Diastolic and Systolic Mechanical Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony Among Patients With Coronary Heart Disease.” In Jacc Cardiovasc Imaging, 12:1215–26, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.05.018.
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