Q & A with Associate Chief Resident Dr. Monica Reddy Q1: Tell us about yourself, including your decision to stay at UNC for fellowship (we’re thrilled you are). A1: I grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, but I consider myself an Oklahoman at heart. I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Oklahoma, and then matriculated … Read more

Growing up in Ethiopia, UNC MRI Imaging Supervisor and Radiologic Science Clinical Instructor Issack Boru was age 6 when his father suffered a severe head injury. The local hospital lacked imaging technology for timely diagnosis of the associated internal bleeding, and Boru observed how delayed treatment caused his father significant struggles in the years after. … Read more

Since 2012, the Department’s Outreach/Imaging Informatics division has provided imaging consultation and delivery of high-quality diagnostic reports to State-operated and private practice entities. A diverse range of imaging-related services executed by the Outreach team has earned it high regard by the external entities who have on-site imaging capability but require timely professional study interpretation and … Read more

From frosts to first signs of spring, UNC Radiology members have come together in all types of places in recent months!!   Center: Senior EOC Compliance Consultant Camille Brooks of UNC’s Equal Opportunity and Compliance (EOC) Office imparts her expertise to UNC Radiology staff at January 2019 quarterly meeting. Clockwise: 1) Drs. Rachel Brader (R1), … Read more

The Department was pleased to welcome Brit Burton in March 2019 as the new Reading Room Assistant for Clinical Support and the Outreach/Imaging Informatics Division. Brit joins Angie Beale in this critical position supporting the Department’s 24/7 workflow. Jointly with Angie, Brit assumes a role that enables continuity of reading room support via round-the-clock coverage. … Read more

Eran Dayan presented, “Integrative Functional Network Interactions Underlie the Association between Physical Activity and Cognition in Neurodegenerative Diseases” at the 26th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, in March 2019. (Authors: Shi CH, Sklerov M, Browner N, Dayan E). Ben Huang, MD, presented, “Clinical Radiology Without an Emphasis on Anatomy” at the … Read more

Anton K, Rosenblum NG, Teefey P, Dayaratna S, Gonsalves CF. The Enlarged Fibroid Uterus: Aberrant Arterial Supply via the Omental Artery.  Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2019 Apr;42(4):615-619. doi: 10.1007/s00270-018-2087-9. Epub 2018 Oct 15. Armao D, Bouldin TW, Bailey RM, Hooper JE, Bharucha DX6,7, Gray SJ.  Advancing the pathologic phenotype of giant axonal neuropathy: early involvement of … Read more

Any practice within an academic medical center provides best patient care only through keeping up with the latest in its respective specialty. UNC Radiology has done just that … for decades. The Department’s late Chairman Emeritus (1966 – 1991) Dr. James H. Scatliff acquired emerging US, CT and MRI technology in the 1970s and 1980s, … Read more

The Department would like to recognize Tengfei Li, PhD, for being named institutional investigator and Subcontract P.I. for a collaborative study — “Analysis of Big Data Squared in Biomedical Studies” – funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in September 2018 ($318K+) to Yale University P.I. and Professor of Biostatistics Dr. Heping Zhang. Over … Read more

The Department would like to recognize Zibo Li, PhD, for receiving both industry and federal funding for two significant investigations in late 2018. In October 2018, Dr. Li entered a sponsored two-year research agreement (renewable $186.6K+/year) with OncoTrap Inc., to conduct a study entitled, “Evaluation of OncoTrap’s lead drugs in tumor bearing mouse model.”  In … Read more