The Department would like to congratulate our recently named 2019-2020 Chief Residents: Diagnostic Radiology Chief Resident: Dr. John Campbell Chief Resident: Dr. Hamilton Howe Chief Resident: Dr. Justin Rodriguez Interventional Radiology Chief Resident: Dr. Clayton Commander  

2019-2020 will be a unique year for Interventional Radiology training.  Not only is it the final year of existence for the Interventional Radiology (IR) Fellowship, it will also be the only year UNC graduates IR Fellows and our first IR Resident.  After years of hard work (and paperwork), Bob Dixon’s vision of the UNC Interventional … Read more

With establishment of the integrated interventional radiology (IR) residency, cultivating medical student interest in IR (the newest medical specialty) and increasing student exposure is more important than ever. A thriving medical student IR interest group is key in accomplishing these goals. I assumed the role of faculty advisor for the medical student IR interest group … Read more

Q & A with Associate Chief Resident Dr. Monica Reddy Q1: Tell us about yourself, including your decision to stay at UNC for fellowship (we’re thrilled you are). A1: I grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, but I consider myself an Oklahoman at heart. I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Oklahoma, and then matriculated … Read more

Since 2012, the Department’s Outreach/Imaging Informatics division has provided imaging consultation and delivery of high-quality diagnostic reports to State-operated and private practice entities. A diverse range of imaging-related services executed by the Outreach team has earned it high regard by the external entities who have on-site imaging capability but require timely professional study interpretation and … Read more

Growing up in Ethiopia, UNC MRI Imaging Supervisor and Radiologic Science Clinical Instructor Issack Boru was age 6 when his father suffered a severe head injury. The local hospital lacked imaging technology for timely diagnosis of the associated internal bleeding, and Boru observed how delayed treatment caused his father significant struggles in the years after. … Read more

From frosts to first signs of spring, UNC Radiology members have come together in all types of places in recent months!!   Center: Senior EOC Compliance Consultant Camille Brooks of UNC’s Equal Opportunity and Compliance (EOC) Office imparts her expertise to UNC Radiology staff at January 2019 quarterly meeting. Clockwise: 1) Drs. Rachel Brader (R1), … Read more

The Department would like to recognize Tengfei Li, PhD, for being named institutional investigator and Subcontract P.I. for a collaborative study — “Analysis of Big Data Squared in Biomedical Studies” – funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in September 2018 ($318K+) to Yale University P.I. and Professor of Biostatistics Dr. Heping Zhang. Over … Read more

The Department would like to recognize Zibo Li, PhD, for receiving both industry and federal funding for two significant investigations in late 2018. In October 2018, Dr. Li entered a sponsored two-year research agreement (renewable $186.6K+/year) with OncoTrap Inc., to conduct a study entitled, “Evaluation of OncoTrap’s lead drugs in tumor bearing mouse model.”  In … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Gang Li, PhD, for receiving a Junior Faculty Development Award from the University’s Committee on Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves. For the full 12-month 2019 calendar year, Li is applying his $10K award toward a scholarly project proposed in his application to the Committee — “Computational Tools for Analysis … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Epidemiology Research Division Director and Associate Professor Louise Henderson, PhD, and multi-institution collaborators for receiving North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NCTraCS) Institute Carolinas Collaborative (CC) Grant funding ($50K) in October 2018 for their proposed pilot study – “Detection of Coronary Artery Calcification in the Lung Cancer Screening Population: … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Weili Lin, PhD, for being selected in November 2018 as one of 42 Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research (ARBIR) 2018 Distinguished Investigators. Each year, the ARBIR honors the new class of Distinguished Investigators at a ceremony held at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting. … Read more