Department of Radiology Events

Upcoming Conferences and Northwestern Events

September 27-30

NASCI Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota

October 10-12

Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

October 11-15

Society of Advanced Body Imaging (SABI) Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

October 15-17

Cardiovascular MRI Course

October 28

Center for Translational Imaging (CTI) Seminar with Dr. Alexander Schulz. Details coming.

Past Conferences and Northwestern Events

April 8

Center for Translational Imaging (CTI) Seminar with Dr. Li Feng presenting “Rapid MRI with Intelligent Acquisition, Reconstruction and Quantification.”

April 7-11

Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Annual Meeting

Presenters: Safwan Halabi, Andrada, Popescu, Thomas Hanley, Vinicius Alves

April 24-27

Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) Symposium

Presenter: Sarah Friedewald

April 25

Grand Rounds with Dr. John Connolly presenting “Imagining a Career in Radiology: Peak Signal to Noise.”

CTI Seminar with Dr. Peiying Liu presenting “Cerebrovascular Reactivity Mapping Using MRI: techniques and clinical applications in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.”

May 10-15

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting

Presenters: Oluyemi Aboyewa, Molly Bright, Sang Hun Chung, Rebecca Clements, David Dushfunian, Mohammed Elbaz, Lexiaozi Fan, Fuchang Jiang, Ethan Johnson, Hannah Johnson, Minyoung Kim, Michelle Medina, Pia Sanpitak, Melika Shafeghat, Jianing Tang. Tianrui Zhao

May 17-21

American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) Annual Meeting

Presenters: Virginia Hill

May 27

CTI Seminar with Dr. Adrienne Campbell-Washburn presenting “Cardiac and Pulmonary Imaging Using Contemporary 0.55T MRI.”

May 30

Grand Rounds with Dr. David Naeger presenting “How to Give an Amazing Talk.”

June 3

CTI Seminar with Dr. Roshan D’Souza presenting “Super-Resolution, Denoising, and Artifact Correction for Fast 4D Flow MRI with One-Point Scans via Physics-Informed AI.”

June 4

Grand Rounds with Dr. Derek Johnson presenting "Nuclear Radiology to Nuclear Oncology: Theranostics in Theory and Practice."

June 5

Research Day

June 13

Resident Graduation Dinner

June 17

Guest Lecturer Dr. Metin Gurcan presenting “Beyond the Pixel: The Evolving Role of AI in Radiology and Pathology.”

July 1

First day for new trainees

Recently Received

Radiology Resident Awards

Lee F. Rogers Award for Excellence in Research by a Medical Student: Aniket Dehadrai

Medical Student Resident Teacher Award: Dr. Jon Guntin

Outstanding Radiology Fellow Award: Dr. Seth Hill

Senior Resident Teaching Award (tie): Dr. Ben Kreitz and Dr. Paul Banks

Northwestern Neuroradiology First Year Resident Award: Dr. Nicole Polyakov

Northwestern Neuroradiology Fourth Year Resident Award: Dr. Logan Jackson

Excellence in Abdominal Imaging Junior Resident Award (tie): Dr. Raj Ranganathan and Dr. Marianne Ruelle

Excellence in Abdominal Imaging Senior Resident Award (tie) Dr. Ben Kreitz and Dr. David Polito

Fluoro Excellence Award for a First Year Resident Dr. Eric Cooper

Thomas Grant Award for Academic Excellence Junior Resident Dr. Matt Agritelley

Thomas Grant Award for Academic Excellence Senior Resident Dr. Sarah Imran

Eric J. Russell Excellence in Leadership Dr. Derek Hesse

Senior Resident Faculty Teacher Award Dr. Lori Goodhartz

Radiology Research Day Best Oral Presentations

First Place: Fuchang Jiang

An Implant-Friendly MRI Coil for Imaging of Children with Non-MR-Conditional Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

Second Place (Tie):

Halil Ertugrul Aktas

In-depth Radiological and Explainability Analysis of Deep Learning Predictions for IPMN Risk Stratification on MRI

Justin Baraboo

Arrhythmia Resolved 5D Flow Imaging Decodes the Effect of Arrhythmias on Flow Energetics

Radiology Research Day Mentors of the Year

Ulas Bagci, PhD

Andrew Gordon, MD, PhD

Ahsun Riaz, MD