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Dr Gordon Waiter
Dr Gordon Waiter
Dr Gordon Waiter

PhD, CPhys, FInstP, CSci, FIPEM

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g.waiter@abdn.ac.uk
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F10 Lilian Sutton Building
Foresterhill Campus
Foresterhill
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School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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Biography

Dr. Waiter graduated from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 1989 with a BSc (Hons) in Physical Sciences majoring in Physics. He then moved to Dundee University, Department of Medical Physics as Research Assistant, to develop MR imaging test objects. He returned to Aberdeen in 1991, this time to the University of Aberdeen to undertake a PhD in Medical Physics, under the supervision of Dr. M. Foster
 

He joined the staff of Aberdeen University in 1996 as a research fellow working in collaboration with the university Department of BioMedical Physics and NHS Department of Cardiology to develop image analysis methods for the detection of hibernating myocardium.

In 2001 Dr Waiter joined the School of Psychology to help initiate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on a new 1.5T research dedicated scanner at the University of Aberdeen.

In 2004 he joined the Department of Radiology (now part of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre) to continue the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging in Aberdeen. His work has included paradigm design, data analysis, data acquisition, quality control and image analysis.

Dr Waiter was appointed Reader in 2021.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Director, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre

Associate Director, Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science

Honorary Clinical Scientist and MR Safety Expert, NHS Grampian

Member, North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2

External Memberships

Aberdeen Lead for SINAPSE (www.sinapse.ac.uk)

Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)

Chartered Physicist (CPhys)

Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (FIPEM)

Chartered Scientist (CSci)

Latest Publications

  • Discrimination of haematoma and peri-haematoma regions of sub-acute intracerebral haemorrhage using Field-Cycling Imaging at field strengths below 0.2 T

    Senn, N., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Levi, R., Oren, N., Broche, L., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Stroke Diagnosis from Field-Cycling Imaging using Machine Learning

    Ali-Gombe, A., Senn, N., Broche, L., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Epigenetic and Structural Brain Aging and Their Associations With Major Depressive Disorder

    Xu, E. Y., Green, C., McCartney, D. L., Han, L. K., Evans, K. L., Walker, R. M., Gadd, D. A., Steele, D., Waiter, G., Campbell, A., Lawrie, S. M., Cole, J. H., McIntosh, A. M., Shen, X., Whalley, H. C.
    Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 100577
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Takotsubo syndrome: cognitive behavioural therapy, physical training, and brain function recovery in the BREAKOUT trial

    Khan, H., Gamble, D., Rudd, A., Dospinescu, C., Creaney, C., Horgan, G., Holme, A. L., Wilson, H., Newby, D. E., Gray, S., Krishnadas, R., Williams, C., Waiter, G., Dawson, D.
    European Heart Journal, vol. 46, no. 40, pp. 4127-4129
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Transdiagnostic Alterations in White Matter Microstructure Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours Consortium

    ENIGMA Consortium, Sandu-Giuraniuc, A., Waiter, G.
    Translational Psychiatry
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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Research

Research Overview

Dr. Gordon Waiter's main areas of interest are in brain plasticity and cognition with a focus on the mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline and in particular the role of inflammation, both chronic and acute, and immunosenescence in brain ageing.

The pathology that leads to dementia begins many decades before symptoms appear. It is hoped that an improved understanding of the age-related changes in brain health and cognition, and the impact of cardiometabolic and inflammation factors, will have an impact on public health through targets for intervention, earlier diagnosis, therapy monitoring and drug development. It will bring a new understanding of common neurodegenerative diseases at a personalised level, allowing individualised treatment and new ways to diagnose the brain diseases that lead to dementia.

Dr. Waiter has developed a multisystem approach based on a combination of novel and established computational neuroimaging, biochemistry, and statistical modelling methods and is applying them to disorders reporting common symptoms like cognitive decline, brain fog and Long COVID.

Teaching

Programmes

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Dr Waiter is Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc in Medical Imaging

Dr Waiter is the course co-ordinator for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging deeper study (BP5503) of the BioMedical Physics/Medical Imaging MSc, where he teaches fMRI theory and image analysis techniques as well as cardaic MR imaging. He also teaches Statistical Paramagnetic Mapping (SPM) on the Medical Image Processing and Analysis deeper study (BP5505).

Publications

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  • Characterizing the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Action of Exercise and Cognitive–Behavioral Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue: a magnetic resonance imaging brain study

    Dehsarvi, A., Al-Wasity, S., Stefanov, K., Wiseman, S. J., Ralston, S., Wardlaw, J., Emsley, R., Bachmair, E., Cavanagh, J., Waiter, G., Basu, N.
    Arthritis & Rheumatology, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 522-530
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • General and specific patterns of cortical gene expression as spatial correlates of complex cognitive functioning

    Moodie, J. E., Harris, S. E., Harris, M. A., Buchanan, C. R., Davies, G., Taylor, A., Redmond, P., Liewald, D. C. M., Valdés Hernández, M. d. C., Shenkin, S., Russ, T. C., Muñoz Maniega, S., Luciano, M., Corley, J., Stolicyn, A., Shen, X., Steele, D., Waiter, G., Sandu, A., Bastin, M. E., Wardlaw, J. M., McIntosh, A., Whalley, H., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Deary, I. J., Cox, S. R.
    Human Brain Mapping, vol. 45, no. 4, e26641
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Phantom study investigating the repeatability of radiomic features with alteration of image acquisition parameters in magnetic resonance imaging

    Mitchell-Hay, R., Ahearn, T., Murray, A., Waiter, G.
    Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 19-28
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spectral peak areas do not vary according to spectral averaging scheme used in functional MRS experiments at 3 T with interleaved visual stimulation

    Mumuni, A. N., McLean, J., Waiter, G.
    Physical Sciences Reviews, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1287-1302
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Eating Disorder and Autism Collaborative (EDAC) Project Outline:: Promoting eating disorder research embedded in a neurodiversity-affirming culture.

    Duffy, F., Gillespie-Smith, K., Sharpe, H., Buchan, K., Nimbley, E., Maloney, E., Sader, M., Kettley, S., Kerr-Gaffney, J., Waiter, G., Tchanturia, K.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers

  • Preface: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

    Waiter, G., Lambrou, T., Leontidis, G., Oren, N., Morris, T., Gordon, S.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts

  • The cerebellum plays more than one role in the dysregulation of appetite: Review of structural evidence from typical and eating disorder populations

    Sader, M., Waiter, G. D., Williams, J. H. G.
    Brain and Behavior, vol. 13, no. 2, e3286
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles

  • Assessing severity of cerebral small vessel disease using field-cycling MRI and automated segmentation

    Senn, N., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Broche, L., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.
    World Stroke Congress 2023, pp. 209
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Detection of haematoma and peri-haematomal regions of intracerebral haemorrhage using lowfield field-cycling imaging – preliminary study results

    Macleod, M. J., Senn, N., Malikourti, V., Ross, J., Levi, R., Oren, N., Guttierez, G. G., Waiter, G., Broche, L.
    8th World Intracranial Hemorrhage Conference (WICH 2023), OP-10
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Detection of cerebral small vessel disease using denoised field-cycling MRI: Book of Abstracts ESMRMB 2023

    Senn, N., Mallikourti, V., Ross, J., Broche, L., Waiter, G., Macleod, M.
    Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 36, no. Suppl 1, pp. s297
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts
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