Author Archives: Sheerah Coe

Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Hitt, Associate Professor of Radiology and Interim Division Chief of Breast Imaging, and her Co-Director Loretta Muss, N.C. Cancer Hospital Patient & Family Advisory Council Coordinator, on receiving a UNC Gillings School of Public Health Capstone Grant! The master’s capstone is a year-long service-learning course that...

UNC Department of Radiology congratulates Dr. Mauricio Castillo, the Matthew A. Mauro, M.D. Distinguished Professor in Radiology, former Neuroradiology Division Chief and Program Director, and a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, for his selection as the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) 2020 Gold Medal recipient.

Welcome, Dr. James Gruden to the Department of Radiology. Dr. Gruden joins us as a Professor in the Division of Thoracic Radiology.  Dr. Gruden received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Preprofessional Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 1983 before earning his Medical Degree from the University...

Congratulations Mingxia Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Director of Machine Intelligence in Biomedical Computing (MAGIC) Lab! She was recently awarded a NIH R01 grant for her project titled, “Multi-Site Neuroimage Harmonization for Personalized Brain Disorder Analysis.” This project is dedicated to creating a series of unique computational tools for...

Congratulations to Daniel Nissman, MD, Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging, for being appointed Associate Editor of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Nissman’s nomination was approved by the Radiological Society of North America board and begins immediately. Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, an RSNA journal launched in early 2019, highlights the emerging applications of machine...

Jay Crawford, Informatics Manager, was the guest expert on the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Podcast Series, Season 5, Episode 12 on Data Storage The Podcast can be heard here: SIIMcast: S05E12 PIIRT Miniseries – Data Storage (libsyn.com) As a supplement to the ‘Practical Imaging Informatics: Foundations and...

Congratulations to Sarah J. Nyante, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and a Co-Investigator at the Carolina Mammography Registry. She has been accepted as the Newest Member of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research’s Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI²) Class of 2022, Level 1 The Academy for Radiology...