Category: IN THE NEWS

We are so proud of Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FACR, FSIR, FAHA, Chair Emeritus of UNC Radiology. Dr. Mauro is the President of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors. On Sunday, November 26, 2023, he gave the President’s Address and opened the 109th Scientific Assembly and...

Congratulations PGY5 resident Tony Dyer for winning the Society Of Radiologists In Ultrasound Members in Training award for research! Dr. Dyer did an oral presentation at the Society Of Radiologists In Ultrasound 33rd annual meeting in Washington DC. The presentation was titled TIRADS: Improving Patient Care or just a pain...

Congratulations Mingxia Liu, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and BRIC; Director, Machine Intelligence in Biomedical Computing Lab; and Co-Director, Radiological Sciences Faculty Development. Mingxia Liu received the Outstanding Area Chair Award from the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023). She and her colleagues also won the Best...

Alex Villalobos, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Interventional Radiology at the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiology. He recently joined the UNC Department of Radiology from Emory University, where he completed his Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology training. Dr. Villalobos was born and raised in South America before coming...

The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research (the Academy) has selected Eran Dayan, PhD, and Yueh Z. Lee, MD, PhD, to receive the Academy’s 2023 Distinguished Investigator (DI) Award. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to medical imaging. This class will be welcomed as part of...

The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research (the Academy) has selected Eran Dayan, PhD, and Yueh Z. Lee, MD, PhD, to receive the Academy’s 2023 Distinguished Investigator (DI) Award. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributions to medical imaging. This class will be welcomed as part of...

Congratulations, Maureen Kohi, MD, Ernest H. Wood Distinguished Professor and Chair of the UNC Department of Radiology. Dr. Kohi was awarded the Tom Dorsey Gold Medal—by the Western Angiographic and Interventional Society (WAIS) in recognition of her lifelong contribution to Interventional Radiology. The Western Angiographic & Interventional Society was founded...

John Monge, MD, Assistant Professor in the Breast Imaging Division, was selected for the 2023-2024 Passing the Torch: Fostering Medical Humanism through Faculty Role Models program. Passing the Torch is a faculty development program within the Academy of Educators that is uniquely suited to Clinician Educator faculty seeking to develop...

Mariana DeFreitas, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the UNC School of Medicine, Department of Radiology. Dr. DeFreitas was born in Brazil and moved to Italy when she was three. When she was eleven, her father, a mechanical engineer, moved the family to a Detroit, Michigan suburb to work for...

Thursday, July 27th we concluded the 2023 Mauricio Castillo, MD, Scholars Program with an Evening of Scholarship. UNC Medical Alumni Association sponsored the event at the Carolina Club, a celebration of the conclusion of the 8-week summer experiences of the 11 Castillo Scholars. At the event the scholars successfully showcased...

UNC Radiology’s Louise Henderson, PhD, and UNC Lineberger’s Jennifer Lund, PhD, MSPH have been awarded a five-year, $1.76 million National Cancer Institute grant to study the real-world benefits and harms of lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography that can ultimately inform screening recommendations and refine shared decision-making tools for lung...

Steven Rowe, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Chief of the Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics Division in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiology. Dr. Rowe received his medical degree and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan. He completed residencies in radiology and nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins...