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 funding for investigators whose focus … Read more
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 gives our students an opportunity … Read more
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 of Miami in 1987. He … Read more
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 multi-site neuroimage harmonization and personalized … Read more
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 learning and artificial intelligence in … Read more
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 Applications for Medical Imaging’ textbook, … Read more
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 & Biomedical Imaging Research (the … Read more
The Department of Radiology would like to recognize Associate Professor of Radiology and BRIC Image Analysis Core Director Pew-Thian Yap, PhD, as P.I. of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant awarded R01 funding ($2.085M) in July 2021, entitled, “Computational Diffusion MRI for Studying Early Human Brain Development.” Over five years, this project aims … Read more
UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to recognize Associate Professor of Radiology Zhanhong Wu, PhD, as co-MPI of a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) study awarded four-year R01 funding ($2M) in September 2021. Along with UNC Professor of Surgical Oncology and co-MPI Lawrence Kim, MD, Wu will jointly oversee a … Read more
The Department of Radiology would like to recognize Associate Professor of Radiology Jorge Oldan, MD, and Assistant Professor of Radiology Kristen Olinger, MD, for serving on a UNC School of Medicine (SOM) multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary team awarded NIH P01 funding ($7M) in September 2021 to establish an Endometriosis Research Center supported by clinical investigators from … Read more
In 2019, University of North Carolina and Duke University formed a joint investigative team combining multi-disciplinary expertise and designated institutional space to conduct collaborative, large-scale study of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and dementia. Along with basic scientists from both institutions in geriatrics, neurology, psychiatry, bioinformatics and pathology, five UNC Department of Radiology radiological sciences faculty members … Read more
