Ameen Al Qadi is a graduate student at the Ultra-High Field Neuroimaging Lab at BMEII. He graduated with a BS in Chemistry and Mathematics from Fordham University in 2018, and joined Dr. Priti Balchandani’s Ultra-High Field Neuroimaging lab at BMEII while pursuing an MS in Biomedical Science at the Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences at Mount Sinai later that year. Ameen’s research focuses on investigating and identifying biomarkers in Major Depressive Disorder and Epilepsy using multimodal MRI, particularly Diffusion MRI and MR Spectroscopy. He plans to pursue a career in medicine.”