The Department congratulates Professor of Radiology Louise Henderson, PhD, for receiving a National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01 grant ($1.5M+) as Co-P.I. of an investigation entitled, “Comorbidity and Functional Status in a Population Undergoing Lung Cancer Screening” (Co-P.I.: UNC Professor of Medicine Maria Patricia Rivera, MD / Pulmonology). Over four years (7/15/2020 – 6/30/2024), the proposed … Read more

UNC Department of Radiology cheers on Associate Professor of Radiology and University research leader Yueh Z. Lee, MD, PhD, for innovating supply chain solutions to meet COVID-19 crisis needs.  Lee leads a multi-collaborator team racing to design and prototype an open-source ventilator —  the Carolina Respiratory Emergency – Ventilator (CaRE-Vent) — that may fill a … Read more

Working in clinical trial conduct requires an understanding of quality assurance, regulatory affairs, standing operating procedures (SOP)s and other related areas of clinical research coordination.  Over time, clinical research coordinators (CRC)s gain proficiency in CRC-related skills and knowledge and become eligible to take the written the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) Certified Clinical Research … Read more

Cognitive flexibility refers to the ability to readily switch between mental processes in response to external stimuli and different task demands. For example, when our brains are processing one task, an external stimulus is present, requiring us to switch our mental processes to attend to this external stimulus. This ability of switching from one to … Read more

The Department of Radiology congratulates Interim Chair and Professor of Radiology Dr. J. Keith Smith for his induction as a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR). The ACR Board of Chancellors conferred the degree of Fellow of the American College of Radiology upon 121 new ACR Fellows at this year’s virtual Convocation during … Read more

UNC Radiology congratulates R2 Abiola Femi-Abodunde, MD, the Department’s first resident to be chosen as a UNC Office of Global Health Education (OGHE) Global Health Scholar. Dr. Femi-Abodunde is one of five residents chosen for the OGHE’s 2020 Global Health Scholars Cohort V. She joins a competitive, two-year OGHE program that provides scholarship funds ($8K) … Read more

UNC Global Radiology, a RAD-AID Chapter, uses an interprofessional collaborative approach by integrating radiologists, technologists, nurses, physicists, informatics professionals, administrators, and other professionals to achieve sustainable progress in our global health partnerships. This column features perspectives from several UNC Department of Radiology volunteers supporting RAD-AID International’s educational partnership at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, … Read more

UNC Global Radiology, a RAD-AID Chapter, uses an interprofessional collaborative approach by integrating radiologists, technologists, nurses, physicists, informatics professionals, administrators, and other professionals to achieve sustainable progress in our global health partnerships. This column features perspectives from several UNC Department of Radiology volunteers supporting RAD-AID International’s educational partnership at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, … Read more

The UNC Department of Radiology collaborates with the University of Nairobi (UoN) in Kenya. As a result of this partnership, UoN recently established the nation’s first interventional radiology fellowship, which will intake its inaugural class of Kenyan trainees later this year. Robert G. Dixon, MD, FSIR, clinical professor in the Department of Radiology, visited the … Read more

UNC’s Department of Radiology offers educational track for residents with interest in global health. Katrina McGinty, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, initiated the creation and development of a Global Health Leadership Pathway for diagnostic and interventional radiology residents. Katrina McGinty, MD, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Radiology, initiated the creation and development of … Read more

The Department was pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Wei-Tang Chang, PhD, to UNC’s Image Analysis Group, housed at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) in September 2020. In this role, Dr. Chang works on developing advanced MR imaging techniques for neuroscience studies, such as functional and diffusion MRI with high resolution, high speed and high … Read more

Diane Armao, MD, and co-presenter Dr. Carolyn Quinsey (UNC Neurosurgery) discussed health risks of radiation from medical imaging as guest speakers at a research webinar hosted by the Hydrocephalus Association in September 2020. Diane Armao, MD, was awarded funding by Hannah’s Hope Fund to continue a NINDS-sponsored collaborative Phase I gene therapy clinical trial for … Read more