Jason White
Professor and Director of the 3+2 Engineering Program
I joined the faculty of Simmons University in 2019, arriving from the Department of Radiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). I was a doctoral student, a post-doctoral fellow, and then faculty member at the Focused Ultrasound Lab (BWH/HMS), where I helped develop a novel way of performing noninvasive brain surgery with ultrasound. I now leverage my training as a physicist, together with the 20+ years of research on focused ultrasound, to teach and work with my students in the exploration of new techniques for using ultrasound as a tool for neurosurgery, neurology, and neuroscience.
I maintain an active clinical schedule with the BWH Departments of Radiology and Neurosurgery, where I use MR-guided focused ultrasound to treat patients with essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. I am also involved in an early-stage clinical trial to investigate the use of transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation for treating epilepsy.
Formerly, I had been a classically trained musician (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University), and had spent eight seasons as artist-faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. I had performed and recorded in several local venues, including the Berklee College of Music, WGBH, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. Beyond New England, I had performed in several cities throughout North America, including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Chicago, Toronto, and Los Angeles.
What I Teach
- CHEM-390-01 - Chemistry Seminar
- PHYS-114-01 - Funds of Physics I
- PHYS-114-LC - Funds of Physics I
- PHYS-114/MATH121 – LCIS - 01
- PHYS-114G-01 - Funds of Physics I GIL
- PHYS-114L-LC - Fund. Physics Lab
- PHYS-355-02 - Independent Study with Thesis
- PHYS-390-01 - Physics Seminar
- CHEM-390-01 - Chemistry Seminar
- PHYS-233-01 - Introduction to Medical Imaging
- PHYS-300-01 - Mechanics
- PHYS-333-01 - Biomedical Ultrasound Physics