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Medical students

In addition to educational opportunities, the Department of Radiology provides numerous opportunities for medical students to conduct research. Our medical students perform research in all the sub-specialty areas of Radiology. Below is a partial listing of their projects, as well as their faculty mentors.

• Ilana Ambrogi FSM 2010 “Diffusion imaging of cystic pancreatic lesions”, poster presentation at the FSM summer research forum 2007
  Faculty mentor: Helena Gabriel
• Eugene Duke FSM 2010 “A Comparison of the Competing Methods Used to Assess Response of HCC to Yttrium-90 Radioembolization”, poster presentation at the FSM summer research forum 2007; also accepted for Oral presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting 2008
  Faculty mentor: Reed Omary
• Jason Oppenheimer FSM 2010, “Surgically proven malignancy in US-guided Thyroid biopsies interpreted as nondiagnostic, malignant, and benign”, accepted for oral presentation, Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting 2008
  Faculty mentor: Robert Ryu
• Sagar Shroff FSM 2010 “Utility of diffusion-weighted MR in distinguishing hepatic lesions.” Poster presentation at the FSM summer research forum 2007. Indian American Medical Association Academic Forum, December 1, 2007, Chicago IL. 3rd Place award winner. Also presentations at American Roentgen Ray Society and Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology
  Faculty Mentor: Frank Miller
• Joe Young FSM 2010 “Radiation Tolerance of Hepatic Parenchyma Following Multiple Treatments Using Yttrium-90 Radioembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma”, oral presentation at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting 2007; Awarded the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Medical Student Departmental Program Grant 2005; also awarded the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Medical Student Research Grant 2006
  Faculty mentor: Riad Salem
• Joe Young FSM 2010 “Real-time MR-guided biopsy in a liver phantom”, poster presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting 2007
  Faculty mentor: Reed Omary
• Sabeen Dhand FSM 2009 “Evaluation of the embolic agent BeadBlock in the treatment of uterine fibroids with uterine artery embolization”, oral presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting 2007
  Faculty Mentor: Howard Chrisman
• Neel Naik FSM 2009 “Anatomic and Functional MRI Changes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma During and After Chemoembolization”, oral presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting 2008
  Faculty mentor: Reed Omary
• Jonathan Park FSM 2009 “Feasibility of MR imaging assessment of renal function during endovascular stent therapy for renal artery stenosis in swine”, Oral presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting2007;published in Park JK et al Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 2007 Nov;18(11):1409-16; also awarded the Constantin Cope Medical Student Research Award, Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting
  Faculty mentor: Reed Omary
• Shankar Rajeswaran FSM 2009 “Adoption of a Blue Ocean strategy to grow an interventional radiology practice”, poster presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting 2007
  Faculty mentor: Howard Chrisman
• Anita Vin, FSM 2009 “Use of a combined MR-IR suite for intra-procedural monitoring of uterine artery embolization”, oral presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting 2007, also published in Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2007 Nov;18(11):1362-7
  Faculty mentor: Reed Omary
• Heather Greenwood FSM 2008 “Sonographically guided percutaneous needle tenotomy for Achilles tendinosis”, in progress
  Faculty mentor: Tom Grant
• Heather Greenwood FSM 2008 “Pictorial essay of unusual pancreatic lesions”, submitted to the American Journal of Roentgenology
  Faculty mentor: Nancy Hammond
• Alex Korutz FSM 2008, “Rapid Automated Splenic Volumetry Using Multi-slice Contrast Enhanced CT Images”, presented as an oral paper, American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting 2008
  Faculty mentors: Vahid Yaghmai and Senta Berggruen
• Alex Korutz FSM 2008, “Is Rapid Automated Splenic Volumetry using Contrast Enhanced CT Images Possible in Less Trained Hands?”, presented as an oral paper Association of University Radiologists Annual Meeting 2008
  Faculty mentors: Vahid Yaghmai and Senta Berggruen
• Meera Sekar FSM 2008 “Phase contrast MRI versus Doppler echocardiography for quantification of aortic regurgitant volume”, in progress
  Faculty mentor: James Carr
• Jeet Minocha, FSM 2006 “Cardiac imaging (CI) training in radiology residency programs: a survey of radiology chief residents”, oral presentation at the Association of University Radiologists Annual Meeting 2006
  Faculty mentor: Paul Nikolaidis
• Sharon Grouper FSM 2005 “A 3-Dimensional MRI model for the assessment of lumbosacral cerebrospinal fluid volume”, poster presentation at the Midwest Anesthesiology Residents Conference 2004
  Faculty mentor: Matt Walker