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Hire Dr. Spiro P.

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Creative & rigorous methodologist | 20+ years experience generating insight from multidimensional biomedical datasets

Profile Summary

As a biomedical data scientist with 20+ years of hands-on experience, I can help you with all stages of research including: 1. Generating insight from large and complex datasets (multimodal and molecular brain imaging, omics, epidemiology, behavioral, time-series, etc.) 2. Pilot data analysis and grant writing 3. Developing and deploying pipelines (Matlab, Python, R, web interfaces) 4. Literature review and hypothesis generation 5. Experiment and fMRI task design 6. Data analysis (fMRI, MRI, SPM, MVPA, decoding, functional and effectivity connectivity, multivariable linear regression, etc.) 7. Developing interpretable models and algorithms I have many years grantsmanship experience as a PI and as a co-investigator. I have helped several teams obtain major federal grants through pilot data analyses and publications. I can efficiently acquire new domain knowledge as necessary. Please reach out to schedule a free introductory consultation on your project to see if I am a good fit. If the project has the potential to benefit humanity or is particularly interesting, I can be flexible on my rates and/or negotiate a flat fee.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Behavioral Neuroscience
• ☆ Computational Neuroscience
• ☆ Cognitive Neuroscience
• ☆ Neuroanatomy
• ☆ Neuropsychology
• ☆ Neuropharmacology
• ☆ Molecular Neuroscience
• ☆ Neurobiology
• ☆ Systems Neuroscience
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Image Processing
• ☆ Algorithm Design
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Text Mining & Analytics
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Natural Language Processing
• ☆ Data Architecture
• ☆ Pattern Recognition
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Statistical Computing
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Statistical Review
• ☆ Spatial Statistics
• ☆ Medical Statistics
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Trend Analysis
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Gene & Protein Expression Analysis
• ☆ Systems Biology
• ☆ Human Behavior & Psychology
• ☆ Cognitive Science
• ☆ Clinical Psychology
• ☆ Behavioral Genetics
• ☆ Learning & Memory
• ☆ Psychology of Creativity
• ☆ Bioethics & Medical Ethics
• ☆ Python
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ R
• ☆ Scikit-learn
• ☆ Markup Languages
• ☆ Psychiatry
• ☆ Neuropsychiatry
• ☆ Psychopharmacology
• ☆ Hypothesis
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Feasibility Studies
• ☆ Fact Checking
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ SOP & Protocol Writing
• ☆ White Papers
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Traditional/Narrative Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Grant Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Research Scientist (flex staff)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

May 2025 - Present

Research Scientist VI

New York State Psychiatric Institute

July 2023 - November 2024

Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

April 2016 - June 2022

Image and statistical analyst

St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

June 2008 - November 2021

Research Scientist V

New York State Psychiatric Institute

April 2016 - July 2020

Paul Janssen Translational Neuroscience Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

July 2014 - March 2016

Assistant Research Scientist

New York State Psychiatric Institute

September 2013 - June 2014

Computer lab technical assistant

Ann Arbor District Library

February 2003 - August 2003

Research assistant

Northwestern University

March 2001 - June 2002

Education

PhD (Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

August 2008 - June 2013

MA (Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

January 2004 - July 2008

BS (Integrated Sciences Program)

Northwestern University

September 1996 - June 2000

Certifications

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Publications

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He H, Sun X, Doose J, Faller J, McIntosh JR, Saber GT, Huffman S, Hong L, Pantazatos S, Yuan H, et al.(2024). TMS-induced modulation of brain networks and its associations to rTMS treatment for depression: a concurrent fMRI-EEG-TMS study .

Sajda P, Sun X, Doose J, Faller J, McIntosh J, Saber G, Huffman S, Pantazatos S, Yuan H, Goldman R, et al.(2023). Biomarkers predict the efficacy of closed-loop rTMS treatment for refractory depression .

Sun X, Doose J, Faller J, McIntosh JR, Saber GT, Huffman S, Pantazatos SP, Yuan H, Goldman RI, Brown TR, et al.(2023). Increased entrainment and decreased excitability predict efficacious treatment of closed-loop phase-locked rTMS for treatment-resistant depression .

Bourdon PS, Pantazatos S(2023). Misleading assertions, unjustified assumptions, and additional limitations of a study by Patone et al., described in the article "Risk of Myocarditis After Sequential Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Age and Sex" .

Pantazatos SP, Mclntosh JR, Saber GT, Sun X, Doose J, Faller J, Lin Y, Teves JB, Blankenship A, Huffman S, et al.(2022). Functional and effective connectivity between dorsolateral prefrontal and subgenual anterior cingulate cortex depends on the timing of transcranial magnetic stimulation relative to the phase of prefrontal alpha EEG .

Pantazatos S, Ogden T, Melhem N, Allsop DB, Lesanpezeshki M, Burke A, Miller JM, Mann JJ(2022). Smaller volumes of the cornu ammonis (CA1 and CA3) may be a biological endophenotype for suicide risk in mood disorders .

Pantazatos S, Melhem NM, Brent D, Zanderigo F, Bartlett E, Lesanpezeshki M, Burke A, Miller JM, Mann JJ(2021). Ventral prefrontal serotonin 1A receptor binding: a neural marker of vulnerability for mood disorder and suicidal behavior? .

Towards establishing internal validity for correlated gene expression measures in imaging genomics of functional networks: why distance corrections and external face validity alone fall short. Reply to “Distance is not everything in imaging genomics of functional networks: reply to a commentary on Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks” @article{PPR:PPR105596, title = {Towards establishing internal validity for correlated gene expression measures in imaging genomics of functional networks: why distance corrections and external face validity alone fall short. Reply to “Distance is not everything in imaging genomics of functional networks: reply to a commentary on Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks”}, author = {Pantazatos SP and Schmidt M}, doi = {10.1101/2019.12.09.869412} } .

Ritchie J, Pantazatos S, French L(2017). Transcriptomic characterization of MRI contrast with focus on the T1-w/T2-w ratio in the cerebral cortex .

Pantazatos SP, Li X(2016). Commentary: BRAIN NETWORKS. Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks. S<i>cience</i>348, 1241-4 .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Galfalvy H, Shea E, de Vegvar J, Pantazatos S, Huang YY, Burke AK, Sublette ME, Oquendo MA, Zanderigo F, Miller JM, et al.(2023). Brain serotonin 1A receptor binding: relationship to peripheral blood DNA methylation, recent life stress and childhood adversity in unmedicated major depression . The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science.

Baboumian S, Puma L, Swencionis C, Astbury NM, Ho J, Pantazatos SP, Geliebter A(2023). Binge Eating (BE) and Obesity: Brain Activity and Psychological Measures before and after Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) . Nutrients.

Pantazatos SP, Ogden T, Melhem NM, Brent DA, Lesanpezeshki M, Burke A, Keilp JG, Miller JM, Mann JJ(2023). Smaller cornu ammonis (CA3) as a potential risk factor for suicidal behavior in mood disorders . Journal of psychiatric research.

Pantazatos SP, Mclntosh JR, Saber GT, Sun X, Doose J, Faller J, Lin Y, Teves JB, Blankenship A, Huffman S, et al.(2023). The timing of transcranial magnetic stimulation relative to the phase of prefrontal alpha EEG modulates downstream target engagement . Brain stimulation.

Bourdon PS, Pantazatos SP(2023). Why a major study on myocarditis risk following COVID vaccination should not influence public-health policy . Frontiers in medicine.

Bartlett EA, Zanderigo F, Stanley B, Choo TH, Galfalvy HC, Pantazatos SP, Sublette ME, Miller JM, Oquendo MA, Mann JJ(2023). In vivo serotonin transporter and 1A receptor binding potential and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of stress in major depression and suicidal behavior . European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Groenewold NA, Bas-Hoogendam JM, Amod AR, Laansma MA, Van Velzen LS, Aghajani M, Hilbert K, Oh H, Salas R, Jackowski AP, et al.(2023). Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group . Molecular psychiatry.

Lan MJ, Zanderigo F, Pantazatos SP, Sublette ME, Miller J, Ogden RT, Mann JJ(2022). Serotonin 1A Receptor Binding of [11C]CUMI-101 in Bipolar Depression Quantified Using Positron Emission Tomography: Relationship to Psychopathology and Antidepressant Response . The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology.

Pantazatos SP, Melhem NM, Brent DA, Zanderigo F, Bartlett EA, Lesanpezeshki M, Burke A, Miller JM, Mann JJ(2022). Ventral prefrontal serotonin 1A receptor binding: a neural marker of vulnerability for mood disorder and suicidal behavior? . Molecular psychiatry.

Lan MJ, Pantazatos SP, Ogden RT, Rubin-Falcone H, Hellerstein D, McGrath PJ, Mann JJ(2022). Resting State MRI Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations Associated With Suicidal Ideation in Bipolar Depression . The Journal of clinical psychiatry.

Baboumian S, Cheney C, Enayet S, Pantazatos SP, Geliebter A(2021). fMRI Food Cue Reactivity as a Predictor for BMI Change Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) or Diet Intervention . Journal of obesity and chronic diseases.

Pantazatos SP, Yttredahl A, Rubin-Falcone H, Kishon R, Oquendo MA, Mann JJ, Miller JM(2020). Depression-related anterior cingulate prefrontal resting state connectivity normalizes following cognitive behavioral therapy - CORRIGENDUM . European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists.

Bas-Hoogendam JM, Groenewold NA, Aghajani M, Freitag GF, Harrewijn A, Hilbert K, Jahanshad N, Thomopoulos SI, Thompson PM, Veltman DJ, et al.(2020). ENIGMA-anxiety working group: Rationale for and organization of large-scale neuroimaging studies of anxiety disorders . Human brain mapping.

Pantazatos SP, Schmidt MF(2020). Toward Establishing Internal Validity for Correlated Gene Expression Measures in Imaging Genomics of Functional Networks: Why Distance Corrections and External Face Validity Alone Fall Short. Reply to "Distance Is Not Everything in Imaging Genomics of Functional Networks: Reply to a Commentary on Correlated Gene Expression Supports Synchronous Activity in Brain Networks" . Frontiers in neuroscience.

Pantazatos SP, Yttredahl A, Rubin-Falcone H, Kishon R, Oquendo MA, John Mann J, Miller JM(2020). Depression-related anterior cingulate prefrontal resting state connectivity normalizes following cognitive behavioral therapy . European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists.

Zong X, Hu M, Pantazatos SP, Mann JJ, Wang G, Liao Y, Liu ZC, Liao W, Yao T, Li Z, et al.(2019). A Dissociation in Effects of Risperidone Monotherapy on Functional and Anatomical Connectivity Within the Default Mode Network . Schizophrenia bulletin.

Abdo N, Boyd E, Baboumian S, Pantazatos SP, Geliebter A(2019). Relationship between binge eating and associated eating behaviors with subcortical brain volumes and cortical thickness . Journal of affective disorders.

Yuan M, Pantazatos SP, Zhu H, Li Y, Miller JM, Rubin-Falcone H, Zanderigo F, Ren Z, Yuan C, Lui S, et al.(2019). Altered amygdala subregion-related circuits in treatment-naïve post-traumatic stress disorder comorbid with major depressive disorder . European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Lan MJ, Rizk MM, Pantazatos SP, Rubin-Falcone H, Miller JM, Sublette ME, Oquendo MA, Keilp JG, Mann JJ(2019). Resting-state amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation is associated with suicidal ideation . Depression and anxiety.

Baboumian S, Pantazatos SP, Kothari S, McGinty J, Holst J, Geliebter A(2019). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of Neural Responses to Visual and Auditory Food Stimuli Pre and Post Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) and Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG) . Neuroscience.

Milak MS, Potter WA, Pantazatos SP, Keilp JG, Zanderigo F, Schain M, Sublette ME, Oquendo MA, Malone KM, Brandenburg H, et al.(2018). Resting regional brain activity correlates of verbal learning deficit in major depressive disorder . Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging.

Galgano J, Pantazatos S, Allen K, Yanagihara T, Hirsch J(2018). Functional connectivity of PAG with core limbic system and laryngeal cortico-motor structures during human phonation . Brain research.

Milak MS, Pantazatos S, Rashid R, Zanderigo F, DeLorenzo C, Hesselgrave N, Ogden RT, Oquendo MA, Mulhern ST, Miller JM, et al.(2018). Higher 5-HT_1A autoreceptor binding as an endophenotype for major depressive disorder identified in high risk offspring - A pilot study . Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging.

Zanderigo F, Pantazatos S, Rubin-Falcone H, Ogden RT, Chhetry BT, Sullivan G, Oquendo M, Miller JM, Mann JJ(2018). In vivo relationship between serotonin 1A receptor binding and gray matter volume in the healthy brain and in major depressive disorder . Brain structure & function.

Ritchie J, Pantazatos SP, French L(2018). Transcriptomic characterization of MRI contrast with focus on the T1-w/T2-w ratio in the cerebral cortex . NeuroImage.

Pantazatos SP, Li X(2017). Commentary: BRAIN NETWORKS. Correlated Gene Expression Supports Synchronous Activity in Brain Networks. <i>Science</i> 348, 1241-4 . Frontiers in neuroscience.

Hu ML, Zong XF, Zheng JJ, Pantazatos SP, Miller JM, Li ZC, Liao YH, He Y, Zhou J, Sang DE, et al.(2016). Short-term Effects of Risperidone Monotherapy on Spontaneous Brain Activity in First-episode Treatment-naïve Schizophrenia Patients: A Longitudinal fMRI Study . Scientific reports.

Pantazatos SP, Huang YY, Rosoklija GB, Dwork AJ, Arango V, Mann JJ(2016). Whole-transcriptome brain expression and exon-usage profiling in major depression and suicide: evidence for altered glial, endothelial and ATPase activity . Molecular psychiatry.

Hu M, Zong X, Zheng J, Mann JJ, Li Z, Pantazatos SP, Li Y, Liao Y, He Y, Zhou J, et al.(2016). Risperidone-induced topological alterations of anatomical brain network in first-episode drug-naive schizophrenia patients: a longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study . Psychological medicine.

Yin H, Galfalvy H, Pantazatos SP, Huang YY, Rosoklija GB, Dwork AJ, Burke A, Arango V, Oquendo MA, Mann JJ(2016). GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR-RELATED GENES: GENOTYPE AND BRAIN GENE EXPRESSION RELATIONSHIPS TO SUICIDE AND MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER . Depression and anxiety.

Yin H, Pantazatos SP, Galfalvy H, Huang YY, Rosoklija GB, Dwork AJ, Burke A, Arango V, Oquendo MA, Mann JJ(2016). A pilot integrative genomics study of GABA and glutamate neurotransmitter systems in suicide, suicidal behavior, and major depressive disorder . American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics.

Geliebter A, Benson L, Pantazatos SP, Hirsch J, Carnell S(2015). Greater anterior cingulate activation and connectivity in response to visual and auditory high-calorie food cues in binge eating: Preliminary findings . Appetite.

Pantazatos SP, Andrews SJ, Dunning-Broadbent J, Pang J, Huang YY, Arango V, Nagy PL, John Mann J(2015). Isoform-level brain expression profiling of the spermidine/spermine N1-Acetyltransferase1 (SAT1) gene in major depression and suicide . Neurobiology of disease.

Talati A, Pantazatos SP, Hirsch J, Schneier F(2015). A pilot study of gray matter volume changes associated with paroxetine treatment and response in social anxiety disorder . Psychiatry research.

Carnell S, Benson L, Pantazatos SP, Hirsch J, Geliebter A(2014). Amodal brain activation and functional connectivity in response to high-energy-density food cues in obesity . Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.).

Atalayer D, Pantazatos SP, Gibson CD, McOuatt H, Puma L, Astbury NM, Geliebter A(2014). Sexually dimorphic functional connectivity in response to high vs. low energy-dense food cues in obese humans: an fMRI study . NeuroImage.

Pantazatos SP(2013). Prediction of individual season of birth using MRI . NeuroImage.

Pantazatos SP, Talati A, Schneier FR, Hirsch J(2013). Reduced anterior temporal and hippocampal functional connectivity during face processing discriminates individuals with social anxiety disorder from healthy controls and panic disorder, and increases following treatment . Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Hamberger MJ, Habeck CG, Pantazatos SP, Williams AC, Hirsch J(2013). Shared space, separate processes: Neural activation patterns for auditory description and visual object naming in healthy adults . Human brain mapping.

Karten A, Pantazatos SP, Khalil D, Zhang X, Hirsch J(2013). Dynamic coupling between the lateral occipital-cortex, default-mode, and frontoparietal networks during bistable perception . Brain connectivity.

Geliebter A, Pantazatos SP, McOuatt H, Puma L, Gibson CD, Atalayer D(2012). Sex-based fMRI differences in obese humans in response to high vs. low energy food cues . Behavioural brain research.

Smith EE, Myers N, Sethi U, Pantazatos S, Yanagihara T, Hirsch J(2012). Conceptual representations of perceptual knowledge . Cognitive neuropsychology.

Ochner CN, Laferr&#232;re B, Afifi L, Atalayer D, Geliebter A, Teixeira J(2012). Neural responsivity to food cues in fasted and fed states pre and post gastric bypass surgery . Neuroscience research.

Pantazatos SP, Yanagihara TK, Zhang X, Meitzler T, Hirsch J(2012). Frontal-occipital connectivity during visual search . Brain connectivity.

Talati A, Pantazatos SP, Schneier FR, Weissman MM, Hirsch J(2012). Gray matter abnormalities in social anxiety disorder: primary, replication, and specificity studies . Biological psychiatry.

Pantazatos SP, Talati A, Pavlidis P, Hirsch J(2012). Cortical functional connectivity decodes subconscious, task-irrelevant threat-related emotion processing . NeuroImage.

Pantazatos SP, Talati A, Pavlidis P, Hirsch J(2012). Decoding unattended fearful faces with whole-brain correlations: an approach to identify condition-dependent large-scale functional connectivity . PLoS computational biology.

Lai G, Pantazatos SP, Schneider H, Hirsch J(2012). Neural systems for speech and song in autism . Brain : a journal of neurology.

Ochner CN, Kwok Y, Concei&#231;&#227;o E, Pantazatos SP, Puma LM, Carnell S, Teixeira J, Hirsch J, Geliebter A(2011). Selective reduction in neural responses to high calorie foods following gastric bypass surgery . Annals of surgery.

Pantazatos SP, Li J, Pavlidis P, Lussier YA(2009). Integration of Neuroimaging and Microarray Datasets through Mapping and Model-Theoretic Semantic Decomposition of Unstructured Phenotypes . Cancer informatics.

Pantazatos SP, Li J, Pavlidis P, Lussier YA(2009). Integration of Neuroimaging and Microarray Datasets through Mapping and Model-Theoretic Semantic Decomposition of Unstructured Phenotypes . Summit on translational bioinformatics.

Goodman R, Lin-Ye A, Geddis MS, Wickramaratne PJ, Hodge SE, Pantazatos SP, Blank M, Ambron RT(2009). Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields activate the ERK cascade, increase hsp70 protein levels and promote regeneration in Planaria . International journal of radiation biology.

Pantazatos DP, Pantazatos SP, MacDonald RC(2003). Bilayer mixing, fusion, and lysis following the interaction of populations of cationic and anionic phospholipid bilayer vesicles . The Journal of membrane biology.

Pantazatos SP, MacDonald RC(2003). Real-time observation of lipoplex formation and interaction with anionic bilayer vesicles . The Journal of membrane biology.

Garc&#237;a RA, Pantazatos SP, Pantazatos DP, MacDonald RC(2001). Cholesterol stabilizes hemifused phospholipid bilayer vesicles . Biochimica et biophysica acta.