On a typical day at the office, our reading room practice coordinators – Araceli Zavala-Sheridan, Flora Stewart, and Mark Antonio – answer about 150 incoming calls, facilitate a handful of urgent outbound calls, and receive and process several overread requests. The new team was established six months ago to handle administrative tasks that contribute to physician burnout while also helping radiologists streamline their workflow.
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Torianna Lomax Truong, MS, makes a trip to Washington DC to raise awareness about HHT. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is a genetic disorder characterized by abnormal blood vessel growth.
Cross-training technologists in new imaging modalities is one way that UCSF Health promotes career advancement while also increasing the efficiency of our radiology operations.
To learn more about Tosca Bridges, recently named Interim Director, Imaging Operations – Adult Hospital, we joined her early morning rounds at the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. Full of energy and her characteristic optimism, Bridges briskly observed that “Radiology has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, and we are seeing great demand for imaging at UCSF.”
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging welcomes Victoria Young, MD, to the Pediatric Radiology division as a faculty member.
Michael Weiner, MD, has reinvented his scientific focus more than once during his now half-century-long career. In 1980, Weiner was an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at Stanford, researching kidney metabolism at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center.