The Department was pleased to appoint J. Keith Smith, MD, PhD, as Executive Vice Chair in April 2018. Dr. Smith succeeds Dr. Paul Molina in this position. Molina served 11+ years as Executive Vice Chair, as well as a leader in many capacities over his 30+ years as a Department member. Smith is a well-established Department … Read more
The Department would like to congratulate Weili Lin, PhD, for his selection amongst 42 researchers to receive the 2018 Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. Lin and other award recipients will be inducted into the Academy’s Council of Distinguished Investigators during a ceremony to be held in November 2018 … Read more
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
