{"id":7925,"date":"2025-06-10T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:47:22","slug":"7925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/2025\/06\/7925\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sakthivel Elected as a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular MR (FSCMR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Muthu Kumar Sakthivel, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Imaging and Director of the Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship Program, has<span style=\"font-size: 14px\"> been <strong>elected as a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular<\/strong> <strong>MR (FSCMR)<\/strong>! This is a truly prestigious honor, recognizing pioneers in the field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Dr. Sakthivel is the first person from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to receive this distinction.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5228 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Muthu Sakthivel's headshot. A male with dark brown hair and eyes smiling at the camera. He is wearing a white shirt, red tie, and black suit jacket.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite many challenges, I remained focused on improving my skills as a cardiovascular imager, which enabled me to achieve this honor. This recognition belongs as much to our Cardiothoracic Imaging team as it does to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to continue this important work and further strengthen our Cross-sectional Cardiac Imaging fellowship. I&#8217;m also eager to collaborate with Dr.Rebecca Hansen to enhance and enrich our Pediatric Cardiac Imaging\u00a0program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Muthu Kumar Sakthivel, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiothoracic Imaging and Director of the Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship Program, has been elected as a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular MR (FSCMR)! This is a truly prestigious honor, recognizing pioneers in the field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Dr. Sakthivel is the first person from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/2025\/06\/7925\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dr. Sakthivel Elected as a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular MR (FSCMR)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83776,"featured_media":5228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-news","category-homepage-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-300x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-768x768.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-1024x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/CT_SakthivelMuthu_Web_220706-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Muthu Sakthivel's headshot. 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