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Matthew D. Budde, PhD
Matthew Budde, PhD

Matthew D. Budde, PhD

Associate Professor

Locations

  • Neurosurgery
    8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
    Milwaukee, WI 53226

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2011
PhD, Neuroscience, Washington University, St Louis, MO, 2008
BS, Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, 2001

Biography

Dr. Matthew Budde is an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008. He completed his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD and was a recipient of the Fellows Award for Research Excellence in 2011.

Dr. Budde’s primary research interest is to develop and employ magnetic resonance imaging techniques to diagnosis and monitor injuries and diseases of the central nervous system. He has made significant contributions to the field and has over 20 peer-reviewed publications. He is an active member and Junior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and a member of the Society for Neuroscience.

Honors and Awards

05/2006 – Young Investigator Award Finalist, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
05/2010 – Junior Fellow Recipient, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
02/2011 – Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, National Institutes of Health

Research Experience

  • Brain Concussion
  • Brain Injuries
  • Diffuse Axonal Injury
  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Histology
  • Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Microscopy
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Neurosciences

MCW Program / Core Facilities

  • Center for Imaging Research
  • Neuroscience Research Center

Research Interests

Development and application of magnetic resonance imaging techniques to diagnose and monitor brain and spinal cord injury.

  • Apply advanced MRI techniques, including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), to detect and monitor injury to the central nervous system noninvasively
  • Define the specific biological features that give rise to the MRI findings using animal models of neurological injury
  • Determine the prognostic capabilities of MRI in acute brain and spinal cord trauma

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