Preclinical PET/CT Imaging with C11 Radiotracers for Cancer & Neurological Studies Studies using PET imaging with carbon-11 (C-11) radiotracers have been made possible and easier at the BRIC Small Animal Imaging (SAI) facility. With the new small animal PET/CT system (SuperArgus, Sedecal Imaging) installed in the SAI facility, the core has developed a bed for … Read more
Preclinical PET/CT Imaging with C11 Radiotracers for Cancer & Neurological Studies Studies using PET imaging with carbon-11 (C-11) radiotracers have been made possible and easier at the BRIC Small Animal Imaging (SAI) facility. With the new small animal PET/CT system (SuperArgus, Sedecal Imaging) installed in the SAI facility, the core has developed a bed for … Read more
(L to R): Drs. Hortensia Alvarez (Professor of Radiology), Kyung Kim (Associate Professor of Radiology) & Jessie Stewart (Assistant Professor of Radiology) Since UNC’s multidisciplinary Vascular Anomalies Clinic (VAC) opened in 2008, Neurointerventional Radiology (NIR) and Vascular-Interventional Radiology (VIR) faculty have played key roles in growing access, patient care and advanced treatments at this multi-disciplinary … Read more
Eulitt PJ, Altun E, Sheikh A, Wong TZ, Woods ME, Rose TL, Wallen EM, Pruthi RS, Smith AB, Nielsen ME, Whang YE, Kim WY, Godley PA, Basch EM, David GU, Ramirez J, Deal AM, Rathmell WK, Chen RC, Bjurlin MA, Lin W, Lee JK, Milowsky MI. 2020. Pilot study of [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography … Read more
Eulitt PJ, Altun E, Sheikh A, Wong TZ, Woods ME, Rose TL, Wallen EM, Pruthi RS, Smith AB, Nielsen ME, Whang YE, Kim WY, Godley PA, Basch EM, David GU, Ramirez J, Deal AM, Rathmell WK, Chen RC, Bjurlin MA, Lin W, Lee JK, Milowsky MI. 2020. Pilot study of [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography … Read more
UNC Department of Radiology is thrilled Maureen Kohi, MD, FSIR, FAHA, has been named its new Chair, effective December 31, 2020. Dr. Kohi is an Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology and the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University of California – San Francisco. She is a well-known leader in IR clinical care … Read more
The Department would like to recognize Professor of Radiology Dr. Charles Burke for his December 2019 appointment as Executive Vice Chair. Dr. Burke joins Interim Chair Dr. Keith Smith in serving as the Department’s top administrators. The Chair’s office leadership transition follows Dr. Matt Mauro’s 12+-year service (2007-2019) as Department Chair. In September 2019, Dr. … Read more
UNC Department of Radiology congratulates James H. Scatliff Distinguished Professor of Radiology and Division Chief of Neuroradiology Dr. Mauricio Castillo for his selection as the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) 2020 Gold Medal recipient. Dr. Castillo joins Dr. Etta Pisano (2012) and Dr. Joseph K.T. Lee (2013) as the Department’s third faculty member to receive … Read more
In 2019, UNC’s School of Medicine (SOM) recognized the need for a clearer understanding of the multi-disciplinary procedural and therapeutic patient care the Department’s Division of Nuclear Medicine facilitates across UNC Medical Center. In November 2019, this clinical unit was renamed the Division of Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics (Mit). The name change is aimed at … Read more
UNC Vascular-Interventional Radiology (VIR) faculty periodically facilitate industry-funded clinical trials that produce newly indicated, minimally invasive agents benefitting interventional radiology (IR) patients. In 2019, Terumo Medical Corporation funded two clinical studies conducted by VIR division faculty that tested the technical and clinical success of HydroPearl® microspheres in two types of IR procedures. In April 2019, … Read more
On January 10th, we closed out our final interview day for our Diagnostic and Integrated Interventional Radiology Residency Programs – our two programs recruiting medical students. We continue to run the recruitments in parallel given how much overlap there is between the residents and residencies. Nearly every applicant who applied to our Integrated Interventional Radiology … Read more
It’s been our busiest year yet – our medical student-centric educational and advising programs are flourishing! It’s currently block 11 in academic year 2019-2020 for undergraduate medical education (UME), and we have the following to report: course evaluations student scores remain at historical highs, course directors and formal didactic curriculum lecturers have continued their hard … Read more
