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In April 2025, the faculty of UNC Interventional Radiology made a powerful impact at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)—the premier event for the IR community. This year’s meeting was a testament to UNC’s continued leadership, innovation, and commitment to advancing the field of interventional radiology....

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...

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...

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,...

  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...

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...

UNC Department of Radiology would like to congratulate Professor of Radiology Amir H Khandani, MD, Dr med*, on being elected President of the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine (ABSNM), for a two-year term (June 2021 – June 2023). Dr. Khandani has served on the ABSNM’s Executive Board since...

For the third consecutive year, a UNC Department of Radiology faculty member has been chosen for the UNC School of Medicine (SOM)’s prestigious, year-long Teaching Scholars Program (TSP). Overseen by the SOM’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development and now in its 20th year, the TSP is designed to...

The start of an academic year is an exciting time in our residency program as we welcomed our 9 new DR and 2 new IR residents (UNC Radiology 2021-2022 residents). In addition, we had several transitions in our GME program leadership. Dr. Peter Bream passed his Diagnostic Radiology Program Director...

The start of an academic year is an exciting time in our residency program as we welcomed our 9 new DR and 2 new IR residents (UNC Radiology 2021-2022 residents). In addition, we had several transitions in our GME program leadership. Dr. Peter Bream passed his Diagnostic Radiology Program Director...

The start of an academic year is an exciting time in our residency program as we welcomed our 9 new DR and 2 new IR residents (UNC Radiology 2021-2022 residents). In addition, we had several transitions in our GME program leadership. Dr. Peter Bream passed his Diagnostic Radiology Program Director...