Diana Escalona-Vargas
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Institution | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
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Department | Peds Pediatrics, College of Medicine |
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Division | Peds Neurology |
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Address | S5/01 Shorey 324 UAMS Campus Dr. Mail Slot # 512-15 Little Rock AR 72205
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Phone | 501-526-7679 |
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Title | Assistant Professor |
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Institution | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
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Department | Obstetrics And Gynecology, College of Medicine |
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Division | Generalist OB & Gyn |
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Biography Scientific Director of Magnetoencephalography Lab, Department of Pediatrics, Neurology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Aug. 2019-Present.
Research I have been directly involved of multidisciplinary groups to develop expertise in the area of biomedical signal processing to apply new techniques for electrophysiological signals from large array of sensors. I have a strong background in advanced neuroimaging methods to process brain signals measured with non-invasive techniques such as fetal magnetoencephalography (fMEG), adult and pediatric magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG).I had the opportunity of acquiring advance technical understanding of MEG/MRI, EEG and fMEG technologies through training internships at the Dynamic Neuroimaging Laboratory at the McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and the SARA/Fetal MEG Research Center in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS, USA). Both universities have major research and core facilities for adult and fetal brain research imaging with prominent expertise in biomedical signal processing analysis.
Currently, I am the Scientific Director of Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) MEG laboratory to perform clinical MEG in pediatric epilepsy. Additionally, I perform translational MEG research together with epileptologists, neurosurgeons and other researchers. I still maintaining strong collaborative ties today at UAMS fMEG laboratory to study the maternal-fetal physiology. I expand my collaborations with the UAMS Women’s Mental Health Program to study the effects of clinical drugs on fetal brain activity. I am actively involved in the adult EEG community through collaborative work, developing and applying signal processing techniques to intracranial and high density EEG data in epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. My research interests are to expand the clinical applications of neuroimaging MEG technology to study cognitive brain development and function across the lifespan and apply novel computational strategies to process bio-electromagnetic signals.
(Escalona-Vargas, Diana)Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023 Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention Neuroimaging of food-related impulse control and stressors in childhood obesity Role: Principal Investigator |
| R01HL164303 (ESWARAN, HARI)Mar 15, 2022 - Feb 28, 2026 NIH Development of low-cost optically pumped magnetometer system for fetal applications Role: Co-Investigator |
| R01HD105412 (ESWARAN, HARI)Sep 8, 2021 - Aug 31, 2025 NIH Magnetoencephalography based tracking of fetal neurodevelopment in diabetic pregnancies Role: Co-Investigator |
| R01EB031589 (ESWARAN, HARI)Jul 15, 2021 - Mar 31, 2025 NIH Development of Analysis Tools to Enhance Magnetomyographic Assessment of Pelvic Floor Muscles Role: Co-Investigator |
| GR039097 (ESCALONA-VARGAS, DIANA)Feb 1, 2021 - Jan 31, 2023 UAMS ACHRI Flow Through GR039097-Escalona-Vargas-ACHRI-Pediatric Language and Memory Mapping in Refractory Epilsy using Magnetoencepahlography Role: Principal Investigator |
| GR039097 (Diana Escalona-Vargas)Feb 1, 2021 - Jan 31, 2023 Arkansas Children's Research Institute Pediatric Language and Memory Mapping in Refractory Epilepsy using Magnetoencephalography Role: Principal Investigator |
| 27312 (ESCALONA-VARGAS, DIANA)Jan 15, 2019 - Jan 14, 2022 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Studying the effect of Buprenorphine on Fetal Brain Development Using Magnetoencephalography - Continuation Role: Principal Investigator |
| 27312 (ESCALONA-VARGAS, DIANA)Jan 15, 2019 - Jan 14, 2021 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Studying the effect of Buprenorphine on Fetal Brain Development Using Magnetoencephalography Role: Principal Investigator |
| (ESCALONA-VARGAS, DIANA I)Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019 UAMS Medical Research Endowment (MRE) Buprenorphine on fetal brain development Role: Principal Investigator |
| R21HD091717 (OLIPHANT, SALLIE SHERROD)Aug 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2021 NIH Magnetomyography of levator muscle complex in pregnancy and postpartum: Adaptation, injury, and recovery patterns Role: Co-Investigator |
| R21HD091744 (ESWARAN, HARI)Aug 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2021 NIH Non-invasive prenatal assessment using optically pumped magnetometers Role: Co-Investigator |
| 1R21HD091717-01 Aug 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2019 NIH/National Institutes of Health Magnetomyography of levator muscle complex in pregnancy and postpartum: Adaptation, injury, and recovery patterns Role: Co-Investigator |
| 1R21HD091744-01A1 Aug 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2019 NIH/National Institutes of Health Non-invasive prenatal assessment using optically pumped magnetometers Role: Co-Investigator |
| OIA-1632891 (LARSON-PRIOR, LINDA)Sep 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2021 National Science Foundation - Pass Through: Louisiana Tech University RII Track-2 FEC- Probing and Understanding the Brain: Micro and Macro Dynamics of Seizure and Memory Networks - Continuation - Continuation - Continuation Role: Co-Investigator |
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Mercado L, Oliphant S, Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Moody H, Eswaran H. Comparison of non-invasive magnetomyography to Brink score for assessment of pelvic floor muscle strength. Physiol Meas. 2024 Sep 26; 45(9). PMID: 39250931.
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Mercado L, Rose S, Escalona-Vargas D, Dajani N, Siegel ER, Preissl H, Eswaran H. Correlating maternal and cord-blood inflammatory markers and BDNF with human fetal brain activity recorded by magnetoencephalography: An exploratory study. Brain Behav Immun Health. 2024 Aug; 39:100804. PMID: 38979093.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Bolin EH, Eswaran H. Fetal magnetocardiographic recordings with a prototype bed-based array system of optically-pumped magnetometers. Med Eng Phys. 2024 06; 128:104175. PMID: 38789219.
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Bolin EH, Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Mercado L, Johnson T, Eswaran H. Feasibility of magnetoencephalography in fetuses with cyanotic congenital heart disease. Prenat Diagn. 2024 06; 44(6-7):865-867. PMID: 38622756.
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Mercado L, Rose S, Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Whittington JR, Preissl H, Helmich M, Eswaran H. Correlation of fetal heart rate dynamics to inflammatory markers and brain-derived neurotrophic factor during pregnancy. J Perinat Med. 2024 May 27; 52(4):399-405. PMID: 38404246.
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Mercado L, Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Preissl H, Bolin EH, Eswaran H. Exploring the Influence of Fetal Sex on Heart Rate Dynamics Using Fetal Magnetocardiographic Recordings. Reprod Sci. 2024 03; 31(3):823-831. PMID: 37884730.
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Fu Q, Bustamante-Gomez NC, Reyes-Pardo H, Gubrij I, Escalona-Vargas D, Thostenson JD, Palmieri M, Goellner JJ, Nookaew I, Barnes CL, Stambough JB, Ambrogini E, O'Brien CA. Reduced osteoprotegerin expression by osteocytes may contribute to rebound resorption after denosumab discontinuation. JCI Insight. 2023 09 22; 8(18). PMID: 37581932.
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Mehl ST, Simmons PM, Whittington JR, Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Lowery CL, Crimmins-Pierce LD, Eswaran H. Assessing uterine electrophysiology prior to elective term induction of labor. Curr Res Physiol. 2023; 6:100103. PMID: 37554388.
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Mercado L, Escalona-Vargas D, Blossom S, Siegel ER, Whittington JR, Preissl H, Walden K, Eswaran H. The effect of maternal pregestational diabetes on fetal autonomic nervous system. Physiol Rep. 2023 05; 11(9):e15680. PMID: 37144450.
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Bolin EH, Whittington JR, Mehl ST, Escalona-Vargas D, Eswaran H. Fetal Magnetocardiography for the Diagnosis of Fetal Dysrhythmias: Single-Center Experience Over 8 Years. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2022 09; 8(9):1161-1163. PMID: 35907757.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Oliphant S, Eswaran H. Evaluation of Pelvic Floor Muscles in Pregnancy and Postpartum With Non-Invasive Magnetomyography. IEEE J Transl Eng Health Med. 2022; 10:1800106. PMID: 34950538.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Bolin EH, Lowery CL, Siegel ER, Eswaran H. Recording and quantifying fetal magnetocardiography signals using a flexible array of optically-pumped magnetometers. Physiol Meas. 2021 01 01; 41(12):125003. PMID: 33086201.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Eswaran H. Adaptable Sensor Arrays for Fetal Magnetocardiographic Measurements Using Optically-Pumped Magnetometers: A Pilot Study. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 07; 2020:1803-1806. PMID: 33018349.
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Avci R, Whittington JR, Blossom SJ, Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Preissl HT, Eswaran H. Studying the Effect of Maternal Pregestational Diabetes on Fetal Neurodevelopment Using Magnetoencephalography. Clin EEG Neurosci. 2020 Sep; 51(5):331-338. PMID: 32157908.
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Bolin EH, Escalona-Vargas D, Daily JA, Siegel ER, Lowery CL, Coker J, Stowe ZN, Eswaran H. Magnetocardiographic identification of prolonged fetal corrected QT interval in women receiving treatment for opioid use disorder. J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2019 Oct; 45(10):1989-1996. PMID: 31297963.
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Sippel K, Moser J, Schleger F, Escalona-Vargas D, Preissl H, Rosenstiel W, Spuler M. Fully Automated Subtraction of Heart Activity for Fetal Magnetoencephalography Data. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul; 2019:5685-5689. PMID: 31947143.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Oliphant S, Eswaran H. Magnetomyographic Recordings of Pelvic Floor Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum: A Novel Non-invasive Approach. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul; 2019:1855-1858. PMID: 31946259.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Oliphant S, Siegel ER, Eswaran H. Characterizing pelvic floor muscles activities using magnetomyography. Neurourol Urodyn. 2019 01; 38(1):151-157. PMID: 30387530.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Zhang M, Nehorai A, Eswaran H. Connectivity Measures of Uterine Activity using Magnetomyography. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018 Jul; 2018:5878-5881. PMID: 30441673.
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Avci R, Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Lowery CL, Eswaran H. Coupling Analysis of Fetal and Maternal Heart Rates via Transfer Entropy Using Magnetocardiography. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018 Jul; 2018:1-4. PMID: 30440290.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Coker JL, Ray-Griffith S, Siegel ER, Lowery CL, Stowe ZN, Eswaran H. Fetal assessment in buprenorphine-maintained women using fetal magnetoencephalography: a pilot study. Addiction. 2018 10; 113(10):1895-1904. PMID: 29781091.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Wu HT, Frasch MG, Eswaran H. A Comparison of Five Algorithms for Fetal Magnetocardiography Signal Extraction. Cardiovasc Eng Technol. 2018 09; 9(3):483-487. PMID: 29582244.
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Avci R, Wilson JD, Escalona-Vargas D, Eswaran H. Tracking Fetal Movement Through Source Localization From Multisensor Magnetocardiographic Recordings. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2018 05; 22(3):758-765. PMID: 28391212.
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Eswaran H, Escalona-Vargas D, Bolin EH, Wilson JD, Lowery CL. Fetal magnetocardiography using optically pumped magnetometers: a more adaptable and less expensive alternative? Prenat Diagn. 2017 Feb; 37(2):193-196. PMID: 27891637.
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Escalona-Vargas DI, Thagard AS, McGrail K, Napolitano PG, Magann EF, Lowery CL, Eswaran H. Observations of fetal brain activity via non-invasive magnetoencephalography following administration of magnesium sulfate for neuroprotection in preterm labor. Prenat Diagn. 2016 Oct; 36(10):982-984. PMID: 27569124.
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Oliphant S, Escalona-Vargas D, Austin B, Eswaran H. Magnetomyography of the levator muscle complex: a?novel assessment tool. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Nov; 215(5):667-669. PMID: 27521462.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Murphy P, Lowery CL, Eswaran H. Genetic algorithms for dipole location of fetal magnetocardiography. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug; 2016:904-907. PMID: 28268470.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Siegel ER, Murphy P, Lowery CL, Eswaran H. Selection of Reference Channels Based on Mutual Information for Frequency-Dependent Subtraction Method Applied to Fetal Biomagnetic Signals. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2017 05; 64(5):1115-1122. PMID: 27416588.
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Escalona-Vargas D, Govindan RB, Furdea A, Murphy P, Lowery CL, Eswaran H. Characterizing the Propagation of Uterine Electrophysiological Signals Recorded with a Multi-Sensor Abdominal Array in Term Pregnancies. PLoS One. 2015; 10(10):e0140894. PMID: 26505624.
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Escalona-Vargas DI, Lopez-Arevalo I, Guti?rrez D. Multicompare tests of the performance of different metaheuristics in EEG dipole source localization. ScientificWorldJournal. 2014; 2014:524367. PMID: 24757424.
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Escalona-Vargas DI., Lopez-Arevalo I., and Gutierrez D. On the performance of metaheuristic algorithms in the solution of the EEG inverse problem. Third World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC). 2011.
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Escalona-Vargas DI, Guti?rrez D, Lopez-Arevalo I. Cram?r-Rao bounds on the performance of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms in EEG source localization. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011; 2011:7115-8. PMID: 22255978.
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Guti?rrez D, Escalona-Vargas DI. EEG data classification through signal spatial redistribution and optimized linear discriminants. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2010 Jan; 97(1):39-47. PMID: 19523710.
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