Author Archives: Laurie Birdsong

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

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,...

UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to announce that Mauricio Castillo, MD, FACR, has been named the first Matthew A. Mauro, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Radiology, as approved by the University’s Board of Trustees. Castillo’s appointment culminates UNC Radiology’s five-year campaign toward endowing and selecting a highly esteemed faculty member...