The Department would like to recognize Associate Professor and Carolina Mammography Registry Director Louise Henderson, PhD, for being selected as a 2018 UNC School of Medicine (SOM) Yang Family Biomedical Scholar. Created and sponsored by Lenovo CEO and UNC alumnus Mr. Yuanqing Yang, this award recognizes tenured SOM faculty such as Henderson who have an … Read more

The Department was pleased to appoint Assistant Professor Lauren Burke, MD, as its new Abdominal Imaging Division Chief in May 2018. Dr. Burke succeeds Dr. Jeff Neitlich in this role. Burke’s time at UNC spans almost 20 years undergraduate, medical school, residency and faculty.  After completing an Abdominal Imaging fellowship at Duke University in 2013, she returned to UNC as … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Assistant Professor of Radiology Dr. Ersan Altun for being chosen to receive the 2018 Charles A. Bream Award for excellence in teaching. Recognized annually at the Department’s end-of-year banquet, the Bream Award recipient is selected by the graduating Diagnostic Radiology residents. Since joining the Department in 2014, Altun has become … Read more

In her earliest years as a Neuropathology fellow (1997-1999) training under UNC Director of Neuropathology Thomas W. Bouldin, MD, Dr. Diane Armao saw how neuroimaging could advance the study of nervous system disease, yet also bring the concerns of ionizing radiation to the fore. A Department faculty member of almost 20 years now, Armao’s work … Read more

To borrow from popular culture – Wow, Just Wow! We’ve just completed an extraordinary year measured against any number of benchmarks. Excelling in clinical care, volume of patients and families served, scholarly output, and educational initiatives – our residents have done it all. With the growth of UNC Health Care System have come higher case … Read more

    In June 2018, UNC Radiology members spent several afternoons volunteering in support of fellow University employees at UNC’s on-campus Carolina Campus Community Garden (CCCG). After a rewarding first opportunity in 2016, Department volunteers returned to CCCG to harvest, weed, compost, water, etc., in support of CCCG’s mission to extend access to fresh, sustainably-grown produce … Read more

Ari Isaacson, MD, received industry funding (Anticipated funding: $15K / Sponsor: BTG International, Ltd.) in June 2018 to conduct retrospective data analysis to explore use of LC Bead LUMI™ in routine clinical practice for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Study goals will be supported by collecting data on safety, effectiveness and procedural information from … Read more

Dayan E, Sklerov M, Browner N. Disrupted hypothalamic functional connectivity in patients with PD and autonomic dysfunction. Neurology. 2018 Jun 5;90(23):e2051-e2058. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000005641. Epub 2018 May 4. Kim KW, Kuzmiak CM, Kim YJ, Seo JY, Jung HK, Lee MS. Diagnostic Usefulness of Combination of Diffusion-weighted Imaging and T2WI, Including Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Breast Lesions: … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Sarah Nyante, PhD, for being awarded intramural investigator’s funding through UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC)’s Developmental Funding Program. The program aims to support the development of cancer research led by UNC faculty, as well as to stimulate new applications for extramural funding. As one of the program’s Tier … Read more

In November 2017, the Department began enrolling participants in Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), a large, randomized mammography trial comparing two FDA-approved types of digital mammography: standard digital (2D) with tomosynthesis (3D). As one of approximately 100 U.S. and Canadian TMIST sites, UNC’s mammography clinic offers women both types of screening met the requirement … Read more

The Department was pleased to appoint Assistant Professor Leon Bacchus, MD, as its new Cardiothoracic Imaging Division Chief in March 2018. Bacchus joined the Department in August 2015 and will continue to serve as the Educational Liaison and Fellowship Director for the Cardiothoracic Imaging Division. Bacchus completed his Diagnostic Radiology residency (2007-2011) at Lahey Hospital … Read more