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UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to appoint Ari Isaacson, MD, as its new Vascular-Interventional Radiology (VIR) Division Chief. Isaacson replaces 12-year Division Chief and Professor of Radiology Charles Burke, MD, FSIR, who was named the Department’s Executive Vice Chair in early 2020. Isaacson is a highly accomplished junior faculty...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 UNC Department of Radiology is thrilled Maureen Kohi, MD, FSIR, FAHA, has been named its new Chair, effective December 31, 2020. Dr. Kohi is an Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology and the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University of California – San Francisco. She is a well-known...