Category: Department News

UNC Radiology held its annual graduation event on Saturday, June 11, 2022, at the Chapel Hill Country Club. The event hosted graduates, their families, and faculty with a cocktail hour, awards, and dinner. The celebration was a welcome return after graduation in-person events had been put on hold for the...

Dr. Sahar Ahmad, our new Research Instructor in the Radiological Sciences Group, was selected as a winner of the 2022 BRAIN Initiative Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo & Video Contest. Her image won second place in the contest. Mindmap – The Intricate Wiring of The Human Brain Brain activity is...

Original article appeared on Lineburger Comprehensive Cancer Center News Feed  Radiology facilities and imaging process cited as factors that may lead to some disparities A multi-institutional study led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and colleagues has found that diagnostic mammography results varied across racial and ethnic groups, with...

Congratulations to Rachel Hitt, MD, Associate Professor and Interim Chief of Breast Imaging, Kristen Olinger, MD, Assistant Professor and Josephina Finazzo, MD, Assistant Professor both in Abdominal Imaging. These faculty were recently recognized at the annual Evening of Scholarship. All have been inducted as new members of the UNC Academy of Educators. Rachel...

Congratulations to Jorge Oldan, MD, Associate Profession in the Cardiac and MIT Divisions on receiving a Research Seed Grant from RSNA. His application was among the top-ranked and approved for funding by the R&E Board of Trustees. The grant is in the amount of $40,000. His project is titled: “18-fluorofuranylnorprogesterone...

Congratulations to Dr. McGinty on receiving a $75,000 RSNA Grant for Global Radiology We are proud to announce that Dr. Katrina McGinty, Associate Professor in the Abdominal Division, was recently awarded the Radiological Society of North America Derek Harwood Nash International Educational Scholars Grant. This is an R&E Foundation Grant that provides...

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...