UCSF News

Christine M. Glastonbury, MBBS, of UCSF Radiology was elected the Secretary-Treasurer of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) during the opening ceremony of the 2023 ARRS Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI.

On Wednesday, March 29, the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and the Center for Intelligent Imaging (ci²) welcomed a global crowd of researchers to our Mission Bay Campus. 

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that Michael Ohliger, MD, PhD, will serve as Modality Director for MRI effective January 1, 2023. Dr. Ohliger joined the department as an assistant professor in 2013, after completing his diagnostic radiology residency and abdominal imaging fellowship here at UCSF.

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that Amrutha Ramachandran, MD has joined our faculty as an assistant professor of clinical radiology starting on November 1, 2022.

Siemens Healthineers and UC San Francisco have formed a research and innovation-driven collaboration to make radiological imaging greener, while improving access to and quality of radiological imaging in Northern California. The agreement will also explore artificial intelligence in radiology, clinical data and image integration, and quantitative imaging.

September is Women in Medicine Month, and RADWomen UCSF is an important initiative established in 2020 to advocate for women faculty, trainees, and staff in radiology.

A recent collaborative project of the five University of California radiology departments highlights some of the new and ongoing DEI work our people are leading in our profession and across our departments and health systems.

Thank you to all UCSF Medical Center Radiology staff – you are the essential workers who continue to provide essential services during this time. 

Nicholas Fidelman, MD has graciously agreed to serve as interim chief of Interventional Radiology at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging following the departure of Maureen Kohi, MD. 

Maureen Kohi, MD, associate professor of radiology chief of Interventional Radiology, has accepted the role of Ernest H. Wood Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, effective December 31, 2020.