Leo Sugrue, MD, PhD

Leo Sugrue
Principal Investigators
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Dr. Leo Sugrue is a Neuroradiologist who cares for adults and children with conditions affecting the brain and spine. Dr. Sugrue has a particular interest in imaging the brain circuits responsible for complex thought and behavior. These circuits are affected in a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, ranging from movement disorders like essential tremor to mental illnesses such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Dr. Sugrue works closely with colleagues in psychiatry, neurosurgery, and neurology to develop new circuit–based approaches to diagnosing and treating these conditions using a variety of techniques including electrical stimulation, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and focused ultrasound. He co-directs the recently founded UCSF Neuroscience Program in Focused Ultrasound.

Dr. Sugrue has a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and directs the Laboratory for Precision Neuroimaging at UCSF, which works to integrate brain imaging with genetic, health, and behavioral data to better understand, diagnose, and treat brain disease. The lab operates from the perspective that brain disorders have different underlying causes in different people, with a goal of personalizing trials and treatments to individual illness.

Dr. Sugrue earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his doctorate in Neuroscience at Stanford University. During his graduate and postdoctoral training, he used diverse neuroscience techniques and model systems to explore the neural basis of cognition. He completed a residency in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in Neuroradiology at UCSF.

Expertise:
Neuroradiology

Specialty:
Neuroradiology, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, Multimodal brain imaging, Neuromodulation

Professional Interests:
Imaging of neuropsychiatric disease, neuromodulation, imaging genetics, neural basis of reward and decision making, molecular imaging of neuropsychiatric disease, brain-machine interface technologies. Functional MRI (fMRI), Diffusion MRI (dMRI), resting state MRI (rsMRI), molecular imaging of neuropsychiatric disease, neurophysiology, brain-stimulation, brain directed high- and low-intensity focused ultrasound (brain HIFU/LIFU).

Education and Training:
• Medical School: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD – Medicine
• Doctor of Philosophy: Stanford University School of Medicine, CA – Neuroscience
• Internship: Stanford Hospital and Clinics, CA – Internal Medicine
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Howard Hughes Institute at Stanford University, CA – Neuroscience
• Residency: University of California, San Francisco – Diagnostic Radiology
• Fellowship University of California, San Francisco – ACGME Neuroradiology
• California Medical License
• American Board of Radiology Certificate in Diagnostic Radiology
• American Board of Radiology Subspecialty Certificate in Neuroradiology

Honors and Awards
Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, 2019
ARRS/ASNR Research Scholar Award: Imaging Biomarkers of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, ARRS/ASNR, 2016
Siemens AUR Radiology Resident Academic Development (SARRAD) Program, Association of University Radiologists, 2011

Publications

Radiogenomics of C9orf72 Expansion Carriers Reveals Global Transposable Element Derepression and Enables Prediction of Thalamic Atrophy and Clinical Impairment.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Bonham LW, Geier EG, Sirkis DW, Leong JK, Ramos EM, Wang Q, Karydas A, Lee SE, Sturm VE, Sawyer RP, Friedberg A, Ichida JK, Gitler AD, Sugrue L, Cordingley M, Bee W, Weber E, Kramer JH, Rankin KP, Rosen HJ, Boxer AL, Seeley WW, Ravits J, Miller BL, Yokoyama JS

Rates of Incidental Findings in Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children.

JAMA neurology

Li Y, Thompson WK, Reuter C, Nillo R, Jernigan T, Dale A, Sugrue LP, ABCD Consortium, Brown J, Dougherty RF, Rauschecker A, Rudie J, Barch DM, Calhoun V, Hagler D, Hatton S, Tanabe J, Marshall A, Sher KJ, Heeringa S, Hermosillo R, Banich MT, Squeglia L, Bjork J, Zucker R, Neale M, Herting M, Sheth C, Huber R, Reeves G, Hettema JM, Howlett KD, Cloak C, Baskin-Sommers A, Rapuano K, Gonzalez R, Karcher N, Laird A, Baker F, James R, Sowell E, Dick A, Hawes S, Sutherland M, Bagot K, Bodurka J, Breslin F, Morris A, Paulus M, Gray K, Hoffman E, Weiss S, Rajapakse N, Glantz M, Nagel B, Ewing SF, Goldstone A, Pfefferbaum A, Prouty D, Rosenberg M, Bookheimer S, Tapert S, Infante M, Jacobus J, Giedd J, Shilling P, Wade N, Uban K, Haist F, Heyser C, Palmer C, Kuperman J, Hewitt J, Cottler L, Isaiah A, Chang L, Edwards S, Ernst T, Heitzeg M, Puttler L, Sripada C, Iacono W, Luciana M, Clark D, Luna B, Schirda C, Foxe J, Freedman E, Mason M, McGlade E, Renshaw P, Yurgelun-Todd D, Albaugh M, Allgaier N, Chaarani B, Potter A, Ivanova M, Lisdahl K, Do E, Maes H, Bogdan R, Anokhin A, Dosenbach N, Glaser P, Heath A, Casey BJ, Gee D, Garavan HP, Dowling G, Brown S

Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

NeuroImage

Hagler DJ, Hatton S, Cornejo MD, Makowski C, Fair DA, Dick AS, Sutherland MT, Casey BJ, Barch DM, Harms MP, Watts R, Bjork JM, Garavan HP, Hilmer L, Pung CJ, Sicat CS, Kuperman J, Bartsch H, Xue F, Heitzeg MM, Laird AR, Trinh TT, Gonzalez R, Tapert SF, Riedel MC, Squeglia LM, Hyde LW, Rosenberg MD, Earl EA, Howlett KD, Baker FC, Soules M, Diaz J, de Leon OR, Thompson WK, Neale MC, Herting M, Sowell ER, Alvarez RP, Hawes SW, Sanchez M, Bodurka J, Breslin FJ, Morris AS, Paulus MP, Simmons WK, Polimeni JR, van der Kouwe A, Nencka AS, Gray KM, Pierpaoli C, Matochik JA, Noronha A, Aklin WM, Conway K, Glantz M, Hoffman E, Little R, Lopez M, Pariyadath V, Weiss SR, Wolff-Hughes DL, DelCarmen-Wiggins R, Feldstein Ewing SW, Miranda-Dominguez O, Nagel BJ, Perrone AJ, Sturgeon DT, Goldstone A, Pfefferbaum A, Pohl KM, Prouty D, Uban K, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, Galvan A, Bagot K, Giedd J, Infante MA, Jacobus J, Patrick K, Shilling PD, Desikan R, Li Y, Sugrue L, Banich MT, Friedman N, Hewitt JK, Hopfer C, Sakai J, Tanabe J, Cottler LB, Nixon SJ, Chang L, Cloak C, Ernst T, Reeves G, Kennedy DN, Heeringa S, Peltier S, Schulenberg J, Sripada C, Zucker RA, Iacono WG, Luciana M, Calabro FJ, Clark DB, Lewis DA, Luna B, Schirda C, Brima T, Foxe JJ, Freedman EG, Mruzek DW, Mason MJ, Huber R, McGlade E, Prescot A, Renshaw PF, Yurgelun-Todd DA, Allgaier NA, Dumas JA, Ivanova M, Potter A, Florsheim P, Larson C, Lisdahl K, Charness ME, Fuemmeler B, Hettema JM, Maes HH, Steinberg J, Anokhin AP, Glaser P, Heath AC, Madden PA, Baskin-Sommers A, Constable RT, Grant SJ, Dowling GJ, Brown SA, Jernigan TL, Dale AM

Polygenic hazard score, amyloid deposition and Alzheimer's neurodegeneration.

Brain : a journal of neurology

Tan CH, Bonham LW, Fan CC, Mormino EC, Sugrue LP, Broce IJ, Hess CP, Yokoyama JS, Rabinovici GD, Miller BL, Yaffe K, Schellenberg GD, Kauppi K, Holland D, McEvoy LK, Kukull WA, Tosun D, Weiner MW, Sperling RA, Bennett DA, Hyman BT, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Desikan RS, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Dissecting the genetic relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and Alzheimer's disease.

Acta neuropathologica

Broce IJ, Tan CH, Fan CC, Jansen I, Savage JE, Witoelar A, Wen N, Hess CP, Dillon WP, Glastonbury CM, Glymour M, Yokoyama JS, Elahi FM, Rabinovici GD, Miller BL, Mormino EC, Sperling RA, Bennett DA, McEvoy LK, Brewer JB, Feldman HH, Hyman BT, Pericak-Vance M, Haines JL, Farrer LA, Mayeux R, Schellenberg GD, Yaffe K, Sugrue LP, Dale AM, Posthuma D, Andreassen OA, Karch CM, Desikan RS

CXCR4 involvement in neurodegenerative diseases.

Translational psychiatry

Bonham LW, Karch CM, Fan CC, Tan C, Geier EG, Wang Y, Wen N, Broce IJ, Li Y, Barkovich MJ, Ferrari R, Hardy J, Momeni P, Höglinger G, Müller U, Hess CP, Sugrue LP, Dillon WP, Schellenberg GD, Miller BL, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Barkovich AJ, Yokoyama JS, Desikan RS, International FTD-Genomics Consortium (IFGC), International Parkinson’s Disease Genetics Consortium (IPDGC), International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP)

Shared genetic risk between corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, and frontotemporal dementia.

Acta neuropathologica

Yokoyama JS, Karch CM, Fan CC, Bonham LW, Kouri N, Ross OA, Rademakers R, Kim J, Wang Y, Höglinger GU, Müller U, Ferrari R, Hardy J, International FTD-Genomics Consortium (IFGC), Momeni P, Sugrue LP, Hess CP, James Barkovich A, Boxer AL, Seeley WW, Rabinovici GD, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Schmansky NJ, Fischl B, Hyman BT, Dickson DW, Schellenberg GD, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Desikan RS

Genetic architecture of sporadic frontotemporal dementia and overlap with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

Ferrari R, Wang Y, Vandrovcova J, Guelfi S, Witeolar A, Karch CM, Schork AJ, Fan CC, Brewer JB, International FTD-Genomics Consortium (IFGC),, International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC),, International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project (IGAP),, Momeni P, Schellenberg GD, Dillon WP, Sugrue LP, Hess CP, Yokoyama JS, Bonham LW, Rabinovici GD, Miller BL, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Hardy J, Desikan RS