The Catholic University of America

Jessica Ramella-Roman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
202-319-6247 phone
202-319-4287 fax
ramella@cua.edu
 


Education
Laurea, Electrical Engineering, Universita di Pavia, Italy, 1993 
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, 2004
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, 2004

Biography

Jessica C. Ramella-Roman received an Electrical Engineering degree (Laurea) from the University of Pavia, Italy in 1993 and worked for five years in the semiconductor industry. She returned to academia in 1999 to pursue a Ph.D degree in bio-optics with Dr. Steve Jacques at the Oregon Medical Laser Center in Portland Oregon. She received a Master and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon Health Science University in Portland, Oregon in 2004. During her Ph.D she developed a camera to detect skin cancer borders that are often invisible to the human eyes. She is also the author of several computational models of polarized light transfer into scattering media.She was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University from 2004 to 2006 where she developed models of light scattering from rough surfaces. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The Catholic University of America and a Senior Research Scientist at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC. Her current research interests include the use of spectroscopic methodologies for measurements of skin and retinal oxygenation, the design of fiber-optic probes for biomedical applications, as well as investigating polarized light transport into scattering media.

Representative Publications

A. D. Jaskille, J.C. Ramella-Roman, J. W. Shupp, M. H. Jordan, J.C. Jeng, “Techniques of Burn Depth Assessment Part II: Critical Review of the Laser Doppler Technology,” (In print in Burns).

P. Lemaillet and J.C. Ramella-Roman, “An eye phantom for measurement of retinal oxygenation,” 14(6), J. of Biomedical Optics, 064008, 2009.

J.C. Ramella-Roman, J.M. Hidler, “The impact of autonomic dysreflexia on blood flow and skin response in individuals with spinal cord injury,” Advances in Optical Technologies, ID 797214, 2008.

J.C. Ramella-Roman, S.A. Mathews, H. Kandimalla, A. Nabili, D.Duncan, S.A. D’Anna, S.M. Shah, Q. Nguyen, “Measurement of oxygen saturation in the retina with a spectroscopic sensitive multi aperture camera,” Optics Express, 16, pp. 6170-6182, 2008.

J.C. Ramella-Roman, S.A. Mathews, “Spectroscopic Measurements of Oxygen Saturation in the Retina,” IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 13, pp. 1697–1703, 2007.

B. Boulbry, J.C. Ramella-Roman, T.A. Germer, “Self-consistent calibration of a spectroellipsometer using a Fresnel rhomb as a reference sample,” Applied Optics, 46, pp. 8533–8541, 2007.

J.C. Ramella-Roman, S.A. Prahl , S.L. Jacques, “Three Monte Carlo programs of polarized light transport into scattering media: part I,” Optics Express, 13, pp. 4420–4438, 2005.

J.C. Ramella-Roman, S.A. Prahl, S.L. Jacques, “Three Monte Carlo programs of polarized light transport into scattering media: part II,” Optics Express, 13, pp.10392–10405, 2005.

J.C. Ramella-Roman, K. Lee, S.A. Prahl, S.L. Jacques, “Design, testing and clinical studies of a hand-held polarized light camera,” J. of Biomedical Optics, 9, pp. 1305–1310, 2004.

Website
Faculty.cua.edu/ramella