Dr. Lou Jean Hardies
Dr. Hardies

Lou Jean Hardies, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Radiology
Assistant Director of Research Imaging Institute

hardiesl@uthscsa.edu
(210) 567-8181 (Phone)
(210) 567-8152 (Fax)


Education

1986
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, TX
Ph.D. (Biochemistry)
1976
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
M.S. (Chemistry)
1971
McMurry University, Abilene, TX
B.S. (Chemistry)

Recent Publications

1. Lancaster JL, Cody JD, Andrews T, Hardies LJ, Hale DE, Fox PT. Myelination in children with partial deletions of chromosome 18q. Am J Neuroradiol. 26(3), 447-454, Mar. 2005.

2. Kochunov P, Lancaster JL, Hardies LJ, Thompson PM, Woods R P, Cody JD, Hale DE, Laird AR, Fox, PT. Mapping structural differences of the corpus callosum in individuals with 18q deletions using targetless regional spatial normalization. Human Brain Mapping. 24(4), 325-331, 2005.

3. Cody JD, Semrud-Clikeman M., Hardies LJ, Lancaster JL, Ghidoni P. D., Schaub R., Thompson N.M., Wells LT, Cornell J.E., Love, T.M., Fox, PT, Leach RJ, Kaye CI, Hale DE. Growth Hormone Benefits Children With 18q Deletions. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 137A, 9-15, 2005.

4. Bajaj M, Suraamornkul S, Hardies LJ, Pratipanawatr T, DeFronzo RA. Plasma resistin concentration, hepatic fat content, and hepatic and peripheral insulin resistance in pioglitazaone-treated type II diabetic patients. International Journal of Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders: Journal of the International Association. 28(6), 783-789, Jun. 2004.

5. Ingham RJ, Fox PT, Ingham JC, Xiong J, Zammarripa F, Hardies LJ, Lancaster JL. Brain correlates of stuttering and syllable production: Gender comparison and replication. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 47(2), 321-341, Apr. 2004.

6. Bajaj M, Suraamornkul S, Piper P, Hardies LJ, Glass L, Cersosimo E, Pratipanawatr T, Miyazaki Y, DeFronzo RA. Decreased plasma adiponectin concentrations are closely related to hepatic fat content and hepatic insulin resistance in pioglitazone-treated type 2 diabetic patients. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 89(1), 200-206, Jan. 2004.

7. Kochunov P, Lancaster JL, Hardies LJ, Thompson PM, Woods R, Cody J, Hale D, Fox P. Mapping structural differences of the corpus callosum in individuals with 18q deletions using targetless regional spatial normalization. Human Brian Mapping. (In press), 2004.

8. Gunn SR, Mohammed M, Reveles XT, Viskochil DH, Palumbos JC, Johnson-Pais TL, Hale DE, Lancaster JL, Hardies LJ, Boespflug-Tanguy O, Cody JD, Leach RJ. Molecular characterization of a patient with central nervous system dysmyelination and cryptic unbalanced translocation between chromosomes 4q and 18q. Am J Med Genet. 120A(1), 127-135, Jul. 2003.

9. Bajaj M, Suraamornkul S, Pratipanawatr T, Hardies LJ, Pratipanawatr W, Glass L, Cersosimo E, Miyazaki Y, DeFronzo RA. Pioglitazone Reduces Hepatic Fat Content and Augments Splanchnic Glucose Uptake in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes. 52, 1364-1370, Jun. 2003.

10. Lancaster JL, Andrews T, Hardies LJ, Dodd S, Fox PT. Three-pool model of white matter. J Magn Reson Imaging. 17(1), 1-10, Jan. 2003.

Teaching

Physiology, embryology and development, comparative anatomy, neurophysiology

Honors and Awards

2004
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2004 Editor Award


Funding

3 M01 RR001346/ NIH/GCRC Mundy (PI)
4/01/04-3/31/09
General Clinical Research Center Imaging Core
The overall goal of this research proposal is to create a Frederick C. Bartter GCRC Imaging Core in order to bring technically advanced image acquisition, image analysis and image-data modeling resources to bear on important clinical research problems.

1 T32 EB000817-01A1/ NIH/NRSA Training grant Fullerton (PI)
9/01/04-8/31/09
“Multidisciplinary Training Program in Human Imaging”
This grant provides stipends to support one graduate student in Medical Physics and one in Human Imaging.

1 R01 HD45907-01/ NIH/NICHD Cody (PI)
1/14/04-1/13/09
“Identification of dosage sensitive genes on 18q”
The major goal of this project is to discover genes on chromosome 18 associated with the phenotypes found in children with chromosomal aneusomies.

1 R01 DK24092/ NIH DeFronzo (PI)
7/01/06-6/30/11
“Regulation of Hepatic and Peripheral Glucose Metabolism”
The goal of this project is to continue the study regulation of hepatic and peripheral glucose mechanism.