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The Department of Radiology would like to recognize Associate Professor of Radiology and BRIC Image Analysis Core Director Pew-Thian Yap, PhD, as P.I. of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant awarded R01 funding ($2.085M) in July 2021, entitled, “Computational Diffusion MRI for Studying Early Human Brain Development.” Over...

We are pleased to announce that the application window is open for the Class of 2025 to participate in the Mauricio Castillo, MD Diversity and Inclusion Scholars program! The Castillo Scholars program was designed to address the racial and gender disparities present in many medical specialties. This program seeks to...

UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to name Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR, as the Department’s next Division Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (VIR). Selected from a competitive pool of candidates nationwide, Dr. Salazar will begin leading our VIR division as an Associate Professor of Radiology in October 2021. Dr. Salazar...

  The Department is pleased to recognize Professor of Radiology Louise Henderson, PhD, as senior author of an inter-institutional study published in the April 2021 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open that produced findings significant to the lung cancer screening (LCS) research community on screening adherence in...

On July 1st, 2021, UNC Radiology’s Diagnostic Radiology (DRAD) and Interventional Radiology (IR) programs underwent big leadership changes. Both programs are in great hands. Two-year Program Director (PD) Dr. Peter Bream passes the baton to Dr. Cody Schwartz, who learned the ropes as DRAD Associate PD (APD) and is a...

On July 1st, 2021, UNC Radiology’s Diagnostic Radiology (DRAD) and Interventional Radiology (IR) programs underwent big leadership changes. Both programs are in great hands. Two-year Program Director (PD) Dr. Peter Bream passes the baton to Dr. Cody Schwartz, who learned the ropes as DRAD Associate PD (APD) and is a...

UNC Department of Radiology congratulates R3 Abiola Femi-Abodunde, MD, for being named the American College of Radiology (ACR)’s 2021-2022 Informatics Fellow. Each year, the ACR’s annual Informatics Fellowship is awarded to one Diagnostic or Interventional Radiology resident, or an early-career professional, with a demonstrated interest in the field of informatics....

It was only a matter of time. In April 2021, UNC Radiology’s Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program took its successful virtual journal club (VJC) to the Big Apple! Throughout the 2020-2021 pandemic, Course Directors of UNC Radiology’s medical student electives saw how the COVID-19 pandemic’s social distancing constraints have impacted...

The who of UNC Radiology’s Clinical Research Division explains why our Department’s clinical investigations bypassed the worst of pandemic-driven investigative setbacks and returned to pre-pandemic levels of productivity by late 2020 — our team. When the University suspended all non-critical, in-person studies for three months, our team swiftly shifted all...

The who of UNC Radiology’s Clinical Research Division explains why our Department’s clinical investigations bypassed the worst of pandemic-driven investigative setbacks and returned to pre-pandemic levels of productivity by late 2020 — our team. When the University suspended all non-critical, in-person studies for three months, our team swiftly shifted all...

The who of UNC Radiology’s Clinical Research Division explains why our Department’s clinical investigations bypassed the worst of pandemic-driven investigative setbacks and returned to pre-pandemic levels of productivity by late 2020 — our team. When the University suspended all non-critical, in-person studies for three months, our team swiftly shifted all...

Hastings Banda: An Interview with our Colleague in Malawi Melissa Culp, Director of UNC Global Radiology, recently sat down with Mr. Hastings Banda, a radiographer and sonographer at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe, Malawi. Mr. Banda shared with Mrs. Culp his story of becoming a radiographer and ways he’s...