Roderick McColl, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Professor School Medical School Department Radiology Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering Biography Roderick McColl, Ph.D., is Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a member of its Medical Physics Division. He provides magnetic resonance physics services to the Meadows Imaging Center, the Rogers Imaging Center, Clements University Hospital, and the Outpatient Building. Originally from Scotland, Dr. McColl received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Edinburgh. He then obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, before earning his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. In 1984, Dr. McColl received a Fullbright Scholarship. Dr. McColl joined the Radiology faculty in 1992 as an Assistant Professor, and advanced to Associate Professor in 2002. He became a full Professor in 2019. He is also a member of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and of the Graduate School of Radiological Sciences. Dr. McColl's research interests include Multi-modality imaging workstation and software design; development of echo-planar image reconstruction and optimization; functional magnetic resonance imaging; diffusion tensor imaging techniques and applications; imaging informatics, including the advancement of novel image archiving, communication and management techniques; and medical image processing approaches appropriate to generalize across multiple imaging sub-specialities and modalities. These efforts led to several milestones including: The design and implementation of an echo-planar and fMRI reconstruction/analysis platform which was used by several UT Southwestern investigators and graduate students for both extramurally funded and dissertation-level research; development of web-based research PACS systems which were used in several large-scale UT Southwestern, studies including the Dallas Heart Study, as the online image storage and communication mechanism; development of DTI data management and analysis techniques which led to use in the Gulf War Neuroimaging Project; and management of data pertaining to multi-organ function in the heart, great vessels, aorta and carotids. His work has led him to author or co-author more than 65 original articles in peer-reviewed publications and two book chapters. He has also been invited to present his findings at mroe than 30 scientific meetings and conferences throughout the United States and around the world. During the course of his career, Dr. McColl has received or been involved in extramural funded research from the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and the National Institutes of Health. He has also served as a reviewer and/or chair for grant review committees including the American Heart Association, Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health and several other international organizations. Dr. McColl is an active member of the American College of Radiology and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Education Undergraduate University of Edinburgh (1984), Electrical Engineering Graduate School University of Texas-Arlington (1986), Electrical Engineering Graduate School University of Warwick (1992), Computer Sciences Research Interest Development of echo-planar imaging methods; interactive and automatic image coregistration techniques; software tools for medical image analysis. Diffusion Tensor MRI Functional MRI Radiology Informatics Publications Sex Differences in the Neurovascular Health of Aging Adults Author Collaboration ft, Sussman BL, Wiseman HE, Ranganathan S, Davis KA, Xu B, Vintimilla R, Wood JC, Rickards CA, Pahlevan NM, King KS, Borzage MT, Braskie M, King K, Hall JR, Petersen M, Palmer R, Barber R, Shi Y, Zhang F, Nandy R, Mccoll R, Mason D, Christian B, Phillips N, Large S, Lee J, Vardarajan B, Rivera Mindt M, Cheema A, Barnes L, Mapstone M, Cohen A, Kind A, Okonkwo O, Vintimilla R, Zhou Z, Donohue M, Raman R, Borzage M, Mielke M, Ances B, Babulal G, Llibre-Guerra J, Hill C, Vig R Stroke 2025 Aug 56 2177-2189 Mediating role of Interleukin-6 in the predictive association of diabetes with Hippocampus atrophy, Amyloid, Tau, and Neurofilament pathology at pre-clinical stages of diabetes-related cognitive impairment Author Collaboration TH, Author Collaboration HM, Author Collaboration tH, Hallab A, O'Bryant SE, Yaffe K, Toga A, Rissman R, Johnson L, Braskie M, King K, Hall JR, Petersen M, Palmer R, Barber R, Shi Y, Zhang F, Nandy R, McColl R, Mason D, Christian B, Phillips N, Large S, Lee J, Vardarajan B, Mindt MR, Cheema A, Barnes L, Mapstone M, Cohen A, Kind A, Okonkwo O, Vintimilla R, Zhou Z, Donohue M, Raman R, Borzage M, Mielke M, Ances B, Babulal G, Llibre-Guerra J, Hill C, Vig R Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health 2025 Aug 47 Scalable quality control on processing of large diffusion-weighted and structural magnetic resonance imaging datasets Author Collaboration TA, Author Collaboration TH, Kim ME, Gao C, Newlin NR, Rudravaram G, Krishnan AR, Ramadass K, Kanakaraj P, Schilling KG, Dewey BE, Bennett DA, O’Bryant S, Barber RC, Archer D, Hohman TJ, Bao S, Li Z, Landman BA, Khairi NM, Yaffe K, Toga A, Rissman R, Johnson L, Braskie M, King K, Hall JR, Petersen M, Palmer R, Barber R, Shi Y, Zhang F, Nandy R, McColl R, Mason D, Christian B, Phillips N, Large S, Lee J, Vardarajan B, Mindt MR, Cheema A, Barnes L, Mapstone M, Cohen A, Kind A, Okonkwo O, Vintimilla R, Zhou Z, Donohue M, Raman R, Borzage M PloS one 2025 Aug 20 Correction: Sex Difference in Cigarette-Smoking Status and Its Association with Brain Volumes Using Large-Scale Community-Representative Data (Brain Sciences, (2023), 13, 8, (1164), 10.3390/brainsci13081164) Chen X, Cook R, Filbey FM, Nguyen H, McColl R, Jeon-Slaughter H Brain Sciences 2025 Jul 15 Understanding the Stress Process Among Mexican American Adults Aged 50 and Older in the United States Author Collaboration TH, Muñoz E, Choi J, Malini HT, Maredia A, Romañach Álvarez LS, O’Bryant SE, Yaffe K, Toga A, Rissman R, Johnson L, Braskie M, King K, Hall JR, Petersen M, Palmer R, Barber R, Shi Y, Zhang F, Nandy R, McColl R, Mason D, Christian B, Philips N, Large S, Lee J, Vardarajan B, Mindt MR, Cheema A, Barnes L, Mapstone M, Cohen A, Kind A, Okonkwo O, Vintimilla R, Zhou Z, Donohue M, Raman R, Borzage M, Mielke M, Ances B, Babulal G, Llibre-Guerra J, Hill C, Vig R Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 2025 Jun 80 Differential associations of neighborhood disadvantage, race/ethnicity, and cognitive status with experiences of psychosocial distress in the HABS-HD cohort Author Collaboration Ha, Rhoads T, Wong CG, Cobos K, O'Bryant SE, Kind AJ, Miller JB, Braskie M, King K, Hall JR, Petersen M, Palmer R, Barber R, Shi Y, Zhang F, Nandy R, McColl R, Mason D, Christian B, Philips N, Large S, Lee J, Vardarajan B, Mindt MR, Cheema A, Barnes L, Mapstone M, Cohen A, Ki A, Okonkwo O, Vintimilla R, Zhou Z, Donohue M, Raman R, Borzage M, Mielke M, Ances B, Babulal G, Llibre-Guerra J, Hill C, Vig R Alzheimer's and Dementia 2025 Jan 21 Predicting the progression of MCI and Alzheimer’s disease on structural brain integrity and other features with machine learning Author Collaboration Ft, Mieling M, Yousuf M, Bunzeck N, Spicer K, Longmire CF, Mintzer J, Rojas YG, Sotelo V, Hu W, Jones F, Saklad A, Seshadri S, Boegel A, Hill SJ, Newhouse P, Long R, Long C, Williams A, Acree A, Brawman-Mintzer O, Reichert C, Pomara V, Hernando R, Pomara N, Acothley S, Elayan N, Slaughter ME, Garcia A, Sabbagh M, Gurung M, Le R, Masdeu J, Rosario C, Smith C, Kalowsky T, Rivera E, Okhravi H, Devine R, Yong M, Roglaski E, Janavs J, Echevarria J, Mba I, Smith A, Miller BL, Rosen HJ, Blackburn M, Kelley B, McColl R, Pomper M GeroScience 2025 Tau Pet Harmonization via Surface-Based Diffusion Model Yue J, Zhang J, Zhong L, Shi Y, O'Bryant SE, Yaffe K, Toga A, Rissman R, Johnson L, Braskie M, King K, Hall JR, Petersen M, Palmer R, Barber R, Zhang F, Nandy R, McColl R, Mason D, Christian B, Philips N, Large S 2025 The associations between type 2 diabetes and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in the Health and Aging Brain Study: Health Disparities (HABS-HD) Author Collaboration HS, Yu F, Pituch KA, Maxfield M, Baena E, Geda YE, Pruzin JJ, Coon DW, Shaibi GQ, O’Bryant SE, Yaffe K, Toga A, Rissman R, Johnson L, Braskie M, King K, Hall JR, Petersen M, Palmer R, Barber R, Shi Y, Zhang F, Nandy R, McColl R, Mason D, Christian B, Philips N, Large S PloS one 2024 Apr 19 Non-language neuropsychological measures increase sensitivity of identifying language reorganization in patients with epilepsy: a pilot study Nagele M, Yetkin Z, Bailey KC, Denney D, O’neil T, Alick S, McColl R, Smith JA Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2024 46 978-988 Results 1-10 of 102 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Honors & Awards ReviewerDOD Breast Cancer Research Program (2003) ReviewerNIH DRG Special Emphasis Panel SSS-7, Biomedical Imaging Technologies (1994) Graduate FacultyBiomedical Engineering - Southwestern Graduate School in Biomedical Sciences (1993) Graduate FacultyRadiological Sciences, Southwestern Graduate School in Biomedical Sciences (1993) Fulbright Scholarship (1984) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine American College of Radiology
