Olsi Rama

Olsi Rama (born 1969) is a scientific researcher and project manager at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan. Olsi Rama is the son of Kristaq Rama (1932-1998), a well known Albanian sculptor and the brother of Edi Rama, the mayor of Tirana and the Chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania.

From 1993-1997 he was Program Officer of the Open Society Foundation for Albania (Soros Foundation) where he was in charge of the Youth, Health, Libraries and the East-East programs. Olsi moved to the United States in April 1997, after his life was threatened by the secret service because of his involvement with Soros, his activity as a journalist with WorldWide Television News (WTN), and his affiliation with other foreign journalist covering the Albanian insurrection. Olsi is also a consultant with SciTech Development LLC, a drug development start-up from Detroit. He has helped SciTech with several projects and with their contract negotiations with the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health.

Publications:

Detection of breast cancer with ultrasound tomography: first results with the Computed Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (CURE) prototype. Nebojsa Duric Peter Littrup, Lou Poulo, Alex Babkin, Roman Pevzner, Earle Holsapple, Olsi Rama, Carri Glide. Med Phys. 2007 Feb ;34 (2):773-85 17388195. http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auid:5300106

Sounding off on Breast Cancer. Neb Duric, Peter Littrup, Earle Holsapple, and Olsi Rama. 4th ASA/ASJ Joint Meeting, Honolulu, HI 2006. http://www.acoustics.org/press/152nd/duric.html

Detection of Breast Cancer with Ultrasound Tomography: First Results with the Computed Ultrasound Risk Evaluation (C.U.R.E) Prototype.Nebojsa Duric, PhD, Peter Littrup, MD, Lou Poulo, MSc, Alex Babkin, PhD, Roman Pevzner, PhD, Earle Holsapple, Olsi Rama, Carri Glide. http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~roth/duricabstract.htm

Noninvasive temperature monitoring in breast-mimicking phantoms using acoustic tomography. Jovanovic, Ivana; Littrup, Peter; Duric, Neb; Rama, Olsi et al. Presented at: Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering Meeting.

Temperature monitoring during tissue freezing using ultrasound speed measurements. Jovanovic, Ivana; Littrup, Peter; Duric, Nebojsa; Rama, Olsi et al. Presented at: SPIE Medical Imaging. San Diego, California, USA, 2008.

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