Ashley Weaver, PhD

Ashley Weaver, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Her research uses medical image analysis and finite element modeling to study injury, with a particular focus on musculoskeletal health and fracture. Her research portfolio includes studies on high-energy trauma (e.g., automotive, spaceflight), as well as low-energy trauma (e.g., osteoporotic fracture). Her group is leading musculoskeletal imaging assessments for several NIH-funded clinical trials to assess the effects of interventions to prevent bone loss with weight loss, and she is PI of an R01 examining muscle-bone crosstalk in the Study of Muscle, Mobility, and Aging. She uses multiple imaging modalities in her human subjects’ research, including computed tomography (CT), high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HRpQCT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA).