Skip to main content

Spotlight on GME

July 26, 2021

On July 1st, 2021, UNC Radiology’s Diagnostic Radiology (DRAD) and Interventional Radiology (IR) programs underwent big leadership changes. Both programs are in great hands. Two-year Program Director (PD) Dr. Peter Bream passes the baton to Dr. Cody Schwartz, who learned the ropes as DRAD Associate PD (APD) and is a perfect fit to take the … Read more

R3 Abiola Femi-Abodunde Named ACR 2021-2022 Informatics Fellow

July 26, 2021

UNC Department of Radiology congratulates R3 Abiola Femi-Abodunde, MD, for being named the American College of Radiology (ACR)’s 2021-2022 Informatics Fellow. Each year, the ACR’s annual Informatics Fellowship is awarded to one Diagnostic or Interventional Radiology resident, or an early-career professional, with a demonstrated interest in the field of informatics. Each fellow is provided hands-on … Read more

Spotlight on UME: Faculty Mentors Key to Optimizing Medical Student Career Paths

July 25, 2021

  Research & Global Health For learners of medicine, faculty mentors are critical – opening doors, guiding aspiring researchers, and optimizing scholarly opportunities. Unlike residents with greater access to faculty, medical students not yet matched to a desired specialty may face barriers in securing faculty mentors. UNC Radiology works diligently to aid medical students in … Read more

UME: Virtual Journal Club an Innovative Success in New Era of Medical Student Education

July 25, 2021

It was only a matter of time. In April 2021, UNC Radiology’s Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program took its successful virtual journal club (VJC) to the Big Apple! Throughout the 2020-2021 pandemic, Course Directors of UNC Radiology’s medical student electives saw how the COVID-19 pandemic’s social distancing constraints have impacted the constructs of radiology medical … Read more

Spotlight on Basic Science: Large-Scale Infant MRI Datasets in Computational Characterization of Early Brain Development

July 23, 2021

UNC Department of Radiology congratulates Assistant Professor of Radiology Gang Li, PhD, on his National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) award funding a three-year project ($627K) entitled, “Harmonizing and Archiving of Large-scale Infant Neuroimaging Data.” Dr. Li’s study addresses the scarcity of widely available, large-scale infant MRI datasets that are comprehensively processed, harmonized, mined and … Read more

Spotlight on Clinical Research

July 23, 2021

The who of UNC Radiology’s Clinical Research Division explains why our Department’s clinical investigations bypassed the worst of pandemic-driven investigative setbacks and returned to pre-pandemic levels of productivity by late 2020 — our team. When the University suspended all non-critical, in-person studies for three months, our team swiftly shifted all major areas of coverage offsite. … Read more

Spotlight on Global Health

July 14, 2021

Hastings Banda: An Interview with our Colleague in Malawi Melissa Culp, Director of UNC Global Radiology, recently sat down with Mr. Hastings Banda, a radiographer and sonographer at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe, Malawi. Mr. Banda shared with Mrs. Culp his story of becoming a radiographer and ways he’s sought to advance radiography at … Read more

New Faculty & Staff

July 14, 2021

  The Department would like to recognize the following new faculty and staff members who joined UNC Radiology during the first six months of 2021: Rachel Hitt, MD, MPH: Associate Professor of Radiology – Breast Imaging Dr. Hitt joined UNC Department of Radiology Breast Imaging division in July 2021 as an Associate Professor of Radiology. She is … Read more

Awards, Honors & Recognition

July 12, 2021

Spring 2021 – Musculoskeletal Imaging Division Chief Daniel Nissman, MD MPH MSEE, was named Associate Editor for the Journal of Digital Imaging. April 2021 – Associate Professor of Radiology Yueh Z. Lee, MD, PhD, joined fellow UNC researchers Sang Hun Chung, PhD (Graduate Assistant – Biomedical Engineering), and Jennifer Goralski, MD (Assistant Professor – Division … Read more

Publications & Presentations

July 3, 2021

  PUBLICATIONS Armao D, Bouldin TW, Bailey RM, Gray SJ. Extensive rod and cone photoreceptor-cell degeneration in rat models of giant axonal neuropathy: implications for gene therapy of human disease. Ophthalmic Genetics. 2021 May 6:1-4. doi: 10.1080/13816810.2021.1923036. Bharucha-Goebel DX, Norato G, Saade D, Paredes E, Biancavilla V, Donkervoort S, Kaur R, Lehky T, Fink M, … Read more