Topics & Speakers

GASTROINTESTINAL

• Liver Masses: Benign or Malignant?
  
• Biliary Imaging
  Richard L. Baron, MD, FACR

• Pancreatic Cancer: Detection and Staging
  
• Body MR: A Practical Approach
  Frank H. Miller, MD

• Pancreatitis
  Stephen Thomas, MD

• Genitourinary Upper
  
• Genitourinary Lower
  
• Genitourinary Unknowns
  David Casalino, MD
  

NUCLEAR MEDICINE

• Bone Scintigraphy
  
• PET and PET/CT
  Daniel E. Appelbaum, MD

• Re-engineering Radiology in an Electronic World
  Paul Chang, MD, FSIIM

• Head and Neck Nuclear Imaging
  
• Thoracic Nuclear Imaging
  
• Abdomen and Pelvis Nuclear Imaging
  
• Retroperitoneal Nuclear Imaging
  Sundeep Nayak, MD

NEURORADIOLOGY

• CNS Trauma and Intracranial Hemorrhage
  
• Paranasal Sinuses
  
• Infrahyoid Neck: Thyroid and Parathyroid
  
• Brain and Spine Unknowns
  Sundeep Nayak, MD

• Vascular Diseases of the Brain
  Sameer Ansari, MD

• Infectious and Non-infectious Intracranial Inflammatory Disorders
  Greg Christoforidis, MD

• White Matter Diseases
  
• Advanced Neuroimaging: MRS, fMRI, Diffusion Tensor, and Susceptibility
  Vivek Sehgal, MD

• Pediatric Neuroradiology Review
  Delilah Burrowes, MD

• Brain Tumors
  
• Spinal Tumors
  
• Evaluation of the Suprahyoid Neck
  
• Degenerative and Infectious Diseases of the Spine
  Wendy Smoker, MS, MD, FACR

• Head and Neck Unknowns
  Colin Poon, MD

PEDIATRIC

• Pediatric Chest Imaging
  Mario Zaritzky, MD

• Pediatric Gastrointestinal
  
• Pediatric Musculoskeletal
  David K. Yousefzadeh, MD

• Pediatric Airway
  
• Pediatric Genitourinary
  
• Pediatric Unknowns
  Kate Feinstein, MD, FACR

INTERVENTIONAL

• Vascular Imaging
  Brian Funaki, MD

• Vascular Interventions
  Jonathan Lorenz, MD

• Non-Vascular Interventions
  Thuong Van Ha, MD

• Interventional Unknowns
  Steven Zangan, MD

MUSCULOSKELETAL

• MR Imaging of the Foot and Ankle
  
• MR Imaging of the Hip
  
• MR Imaging of the Knee
  
• Musculoskeletal Unknowns
  G. Scott Stacy, MD

• MR Imaging of the Shoulder
  
• Bone Tumors
  
• Metabolic Bone Disease
  Larry B. Dixon, MD

• Imaging Arthritis
  Larry B. Dixon, MD

BREAST IMAGING

• Calcificology 101: A Practical Approach to Determining Whether Calcifications Should be Biopsied, Followed, or Ignored
  
• Massology 101: A Comprehensive Review: When to Hold, When to Fold, and When to be Bold
  Michael Linver, MD

• Panel Calcification Case Review
  Hiroyuki Abe, MD, PhD
  Michael Linver, MD, FACR
  Charlene Sennett, MD
  Kirti Kulkarni, MD

• Ultrasonography 101: The Breast Imager's (second) Best Friend
  Robert A. Schmidt, MD

• Panel Ultrasound Case Review
  Hiroyuki Abe MD, PhD
  Robert A. Schmidt, MD
  Charlene Sennett, MD
  Kirti Kulkarni, MD

• Panel Mass Case Review
  Kirti Kulkarni, MD
  Michael Linver, MD
  Charlene Sennett, MD

• Magnetometry 101: State of the Art in Breast MRI
  Gillian M. Newstead, MD, FACR

• Panel MRI Case Review
  Hiroyuki Abe, MD, PhD
  Gillian M. Newstead, MD, FACR
  Kirti Kulkarni, MD

GI

• State of the Art in Abdominal Multichannel CT
  
• Upper Gastrointestinal Imaging
  
• Abdominal Ultrasound: Overview and Update
  Michael Vannier, MD, FACR

• Small Bowel: Conventional and Novel Techniques
  
• Pelvic MRI
  Aytekin Oto, MD

• Conventional Lower GI Evaluation
  
• Virtual Colonoscopy
  Abraham H. Dachman, MD, FACR

• GI Unknowns
  Kirti Kulkarni, MD

CHEST

• Pulmonary Nodules and Masses
  
• Pitfalls in Portable Chest Radiography
  
• Helical CT and Pulmonary Embolism
  
• Chest Unknowns
  Heber MacMahon, MD

• Interstitial Disease
  Steven Montner, MD

• Mediastinum
  Steven Zangan, MD

• Respiratory Infections
  Alexandra Funaki, DO

• Nuclear Medicine & PET? CT Unknowns
  Daniel E. Appelbaum, MD
  Sundeep Nayak, MD

OBSTETRICAL ULTRASOUND

• Obstetrical Ultrasound I & II
  
• Obstetrical Ultrasound Unknowns
  David N. Rabin, MD

CARDIAC

• Radiology of Congenital Heart Disease
  
• Advanced Imaging: Cardiac CT, Coronary CT Angiography, and Cardiac MR
  Karen Dill, MD

• Radiology of Acquired Heart Disease
  
• Cardiac Unknowns
  Martin J. Lipton, MD, FACR, FACC

FACULTY

All Faculty listed are from The University of Chicago
Department of Radiology unless otherwise noted.

CHAIRMAN

Richard L. Baron, MD, FACR
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiology

ACTIVITY DIRECTOR

Daniel E. Appelbaum, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Director of Nuclear Medicine/PET Imaging

ACTIVITY FACULTY

Hiroyuki Abe, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Sameer Ansari, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Surgery
Director of Interventional Neuroradiology

Delilah Burrowes, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Director of Pediatric Neuroradiology

Paul J. Chang, MD, FSIIM
Professor and Vice-Chairman
Radiology Informatics
Medical Director, Pathology Informatics
Medical Director, Enterprise Imaging

Greg Christoforidis, MD
Professor of Radiology and Surgery
Section Chief, Neuroradiology

Abraham H. Dachman, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology

Karin Dill, MD
Clinical Associate of Radiology

Larry B. Dixon, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology

Kate Feinstein, MD, FACR
Associate Professor of Radiology and Surgery
Section Chief, Pediatric Radiology

Alexandra Funaki, DO
Clinical Associate of Radiology

Brian Funaki, MD
Professor of Radiology
Section Chief, Interventional Radiology

Kirti Kulkarni, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Martin J. Lipton, MD, FACR, FACC
Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Emeritus)

Jonathan Lorenz, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology

Heber MacMahon, MD
Professor of Radiology
Section Chief, Thoracic Radiology

Steven Montner, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology

Gillian M. Newstead, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology
Director of Clinical Breast Imaging

Aytekin Oto, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Section Chief, Abdominal Imaging

ACTIVITY FACULTY CONT.

Colin Poon, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

David Paushter, MD, FACR
Associate Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Radiology

Robert A. Schmidt, MD
Professor of Radiology
Director, Breast Imaging
Clinical Research

Vivek Sehgal, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Director of Neuro MRI

Charlene Sennett, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

G. Scott Stacy, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Section Chief, Musculoskeletal Radiology

Stephen Thomas, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Thuong Van Ha, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Director, Vascular Interventional
Clinical Research

Michael Vannier, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology
Director of Clinical Research

David K. Yousefzadeh, MD
Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics and Surgery

Steven Zangan, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Mario Zaritzky, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

GUEST FACULTY

David Casalino, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Chief, Genitourinary Radiology
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Michael N. Linver, MD, FACR
Director of Mammography
X-Ray Associates of New Mexico
Clinical Professor of Radiology
University of New Mexico
School of Medicine
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Frank H. Miller, MD
Professor of Radiology
Director of Body Imaging
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Sundeep Nayak, MD
Associate Professor of Neuroradiology
and Nuclear Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Radiologist, Bay Imaging Consultants

David N. Rabin, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Wendy R.K. Smoker, MS, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiolog,
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Director of Neuroradiology
University of Iowa