Terry Hartman, MPH, MS, CCRC, Clinical Research Manager, was elected Chair of the UNC Network of Research Professionals (NRP), term beginning July 2018. Hartman’s previous work on the committee includes serving as a Steering Committee member and leading groups to help research professionals across UNC-CH and UNC Health Care System to achieve certification in clinical … Read more

At UNC School of Medicine’s 50th Annual Student Research Day in November 2017, UNC School of Medicine M4s and members of UNC’s Radiology Interest Group (RIG) showed off their hard work. Clockwise, from top left: 1) Diagnostic Radiology 1st-yr resident Tirth Patel, UNC M2 Tyler Glass & M4 Taylor Gunnells; 2) UNC M2 Erik Davies; … Read more

  For the sixth year, Department of Radiology “Team X-Rayted” was a heavy contender in UNC Health Care’s 6th annual MOVEMBER fundraising drive. X-Rayted finished strong in 2017, raising $4200+ in support of Movember Foundation’s initiatives addressing men’s health challenges faced worldwide. Once the calendar read Movember 1st, team members began enlisting donations. Many then … Read more

The Department is pleased to have Alex Hung, MD, appointed in December 2017, as its newest Clinical Instructor. Dr. Hung will be working in the Division of Neuroradiology under the direction of Dr. Mauricio Castillo. Hung obtained his MD from National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) in 2002. He remained there another year as an Internal … Read more

In summer 2017, Professor of Radiology and UNC Idea Group and BRIC Image Analysis Core Director Dr. Dinggang Shen received two major National Institute of Health (NIH) awards: 1) five-year R01 funding to develop a learning-based surgical approach to planning craniomaxillofacial (CMF) surgeries; and 2) four-year R01 3rd-phase renewal funding to develop a set of novel learning-based methods to transfer image contrast and tissue/anatomical labels of 7T MRI of training subjects to 3T MRI of new subjects.

The Department would like to congratulate Assistant Professor of Radiology Dr. Troy Maetani for being chosen to receive the 2017 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. Maetani said: “I was very humbled to receive … Read more

In late spring 2017, North Carolina State University (NCSU)’s “News” site featured a collaborative NCSU/UNC study — “Orientation changes in the cruciate ligaments of the knee during skeletal growth: A porcine model” — co-authored with NCSU colleagues by UNC Professor of Radiology Dr. Lynn Fordham and UNC Associate Professor of Orthopaedics Dr. Jeffrey Spang. Published … Read more

We’re delighted to announce early GME success during academic year 2017-2018: we made a smooth transition in July with 10 new hand-picked residents matriculating, all very fine indeed. Our Fundamentals resident July/August curriculum was quite successful in its second year, our residents received word of four RSNA 2017 acceptances, we received word of 100% Core … Read more

(L to R): Drs. Louise Henderson, Hyeon Yu & Bob Dixon PROMOTIONS The Department would like to recognize the recent promotions in appointment of the following faculty members: Louise Henderson, PhD – Associate Professor of Radiology Hyeon Yu, MD – Associate Professor of Radiology Robert G. (“Bob”) Dixon, MD – Professor of Radiology     … Read more

Brian Hyslop, MD, was named Director of MR Services in April 2017. Amir Khandani, MD, was named Nuclear Medicine Division Chief in July 2017. Yueh Z. Lee, MD, PhD, presented, “In-Vivo Evaluation of Prospective Respiratory Gated Stationary Digital Chest Tomosynthesis Imaging” in July 2017 at the 59th American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual … Read more

Atkinson CJ, Lisanti CJ, Schwope RB, Ramsey D, Dinh T, Cochet A, Reiter MJ. Mild asymptomatic intrahepatic biliary dilation after cholecystectomy, a common incidental variant. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2017 May;42(5):1408-1414. doi: 10.1007/s00261-016-1017-z. Bazyar S, Inscoe CR, Benefield T, Zhang L, Lu J, Zhou O, Lee YZ. Neurocognitive sparing of desktop microbeam irradiation. Radiat Oncol. 2017 … Read more

UNC’s School of Medicine and UNC Department of Radiology were deeply saddened by the loss of two long-time faculty members in March 2017: Chairman Emeritus Dr. James “Jim” Scatliff / Professor Emeritus Dr. Robert “Bob” McLelland.