Damini Dey, PhD is a Professor and Research Scientist at the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Dey is the director of the Quantitative Image Analysis Program, co-associate director and technical co-director of PET-MR at the Biomedical Imaging Research Institute at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. She is also a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and The American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Dey received her doctorate in medical physics from the University of Calgary in Canada. Her expertise includes quantitative cardiac imaging and in cardiac CT and PET. Her research investigations include artificial intelligence-based analysis of cardiac images to predict and prevent heart attack, artificial intelligence in cardiovascular imaging and artificial intelligence integration of imaging biomarkers towards precision medicine, automated quantitative analysis and characterization of coronary plaque from coronary CT Angiography, automated quantitative measurement of epicardial and thoracic fat from cardiac CT. She has received several research awards from the National Institute of Health and the Winnick Foundation and is the Recipient of the Jagat Narula Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2024) from the JACC journals. In 2025, she was awarded the Stephan Achenbach Pioneer Award from the Society of Cardiovascular CT for her pioneering work with AI and cardiac CT.

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https://bio.cedars-sinai.org/deyd/index.html

Bibliography at NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1tG6eJ5WGC_5F/bibliography/47083160/public/?sort=date&direction=descending