The Department of Radiology began 2020 in a new leadership chapter. The appointments of Interim Chair Dr. Keith Smith (September 2019) and Executive Vice Chair Dr. Charles Burke (December 2019) brought two highly experienced individuals to the Chair’s office. To assist Drs. Smith and Burke with UNC Radiology’s focus on internal priority areas and new … Read more

The Department would like to recognize Louise Henderson, PhD, for her November 2019 appointment as Director of Basic Science Faculty Development. UNC Radiology’s appointment of Dr. Henderson to a newly created post is part of a leadership reorganization process that invests heavily in clinical and basic science faculty oversight. Dr. Henderson’s nine years of directing … Read more

The Department congratulates Hong Yuan, PhD, on her S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant, awarded by the NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) in March 2020, for her project entitled, “Multimodal PerkinElmer IVIS-SpectrumCT imaging system for a preclinical imaging core facility.” This $590K grant funds installation of a preclinical imaging system (IVIS-SpectrumCT) to facilitate multi-modal optical/CT … Read more

The Department congratulates Assistant Professor of Radiology Ben Mervak, MD, CIIP, for his selection among six UNC School of Medicine (SOM) faculty to participate in the 2020-2021 Institute of Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) Improvement Scholars Program. Over 12 months beginning in September 2020, Dr. Mervak will serve as Project Lead for his proposed project — … Read more

L: Zibo Li, PhD: Associate Professor of Radiology / UNC Cyclotron & Radiochemistry Research Program Director R: Jorge Oldan, MD: Assistant Professor of Radiology / UNC Radiology UME Co-Director The Department would like to recognize UNC Radiology faculty colleagues and School of Medicine (SOM) co-investigators Drs. Zibo Li and Jorge Oldan for being co-awarded a UNC … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Michele Clark, Administrative Support Specialist, for her selection as UNC Radiology’s 2019 Outstanding Performance Award recipient. In 2018, the Department established the Outstanding Performance Award program to annually reward work performance excellence in a Department staff member who consistently goes beyond the call of duty and displays a positive … Read more

Preclinical PET/CT Imaging with C11 Radiotracers for Cancer & Neurological Studies  Studies using PET imaging with carbon-11 (C-11) radiotracers have been made possible and easier at the BRIC Small Animal Imaging (SAI) facility.  With the new small animal PET/CT system (SuperArgus, Sedecal Imaging) installed in the SAI facility, the core has developed a bed for … Read more

Preclinical PET/CT Imaging with C11 Radiotracers for Cancer & Neurological Studies  Studies using PET imaging with carbon-11 (C-11) radiotracers have been made possible and easier at the BRIC Small Animal Imaging (SAI) facility.  With the new small animal PET/CT system (SuperArgus, Sedecal Imaging) installed in the SAI facility, the core has developed a bed for … Read more

(L to R): Drs. Hortensia Alvarez (Professor of Radiology), Kyung Kim (Associate Professor of Radiology) & Jessie Stewart (Assistant Professor of Radiology) Since UNC’s multidisciplinary Vascular Anomalies Clinic (VAC) opened in 2008, Neurointerventional Radiology (NIR) and Vascular-Interventional Radiology (VIR) faculty have played key roles in growing access, patient care and advanced treatments at this multi-disciplinary … Read more

Eulitt PJ, Altun E, Sheikh A, Wong TZ, Woods ME, Rose TL, Wallen EM, Pruthi RS, Smith AB, Nielsen ME, Whang YE, Kim WY, Godley PA, Basch EM, David GU, Ramirez J, Deal AM, Rathmell WK, Chen RC, Bjurlin MA, Lin W, Lee JK, Milowsky MI. 2020. Pilot study of [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography … Read more

Eulitt PJ, Altun E, Sheikh A, Wong TZ, Woods ME, Rose TL, Wallen EM, Pruthi RS, Smith AB, Nielsen ME, Whang YE, Kim WY, Godley PA, Basch EM, David GU, Ramirez J, Deal AM, Rathmell WK, Chen RC, Bjurlin MA, Lin W, Lee JK, Milowsky MI. 2020. Pilot study of [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography … Read more

 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 leader in IR clinical care … Read more