UCSF Radiology Welcomes New Faculty for the 2021-2022 Academic Year
Each faculty member at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is recruited for their expertise and their dedication to imaging and imaging science. We look forward to being a part of their career success. Meet our new six faculty members for 2021!
Gina Landinez, MD joined the faculty in March 2021 as an assistant professor of clinical radiology in the Interventional Radiology Section. Prior to joining our faculty, Dr. Landinez completed her medical degree at St. George’s University School of Medicine, an internship in General Surgery, a Diagnostic Radiology residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center and an Interventional Radiology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical, research and teaching interests include lung ablation and multimodality interventional radiologic techniques for the treatment of cancer-related pain and sarcoma.
Renuka Sriram, PhD joined the faculty in May 2021 as an assistant adjunct professor and co-director of the biomedical nuclear magnetic resonance laboratory (NMR) facility. Prior to her faculty appointment, Dr. Sriram served as technical director of pre-clinical MR imaging and spectroscopy core and as a professional researcher within the department. Dr. Sriram came to UCSF as a postdoctoral scholar in 2010, and worked as a senior imaging scientist at Pfizer, Inc. before that. Her research focus lies in biomarker discovery using MR technology for applications such as infection, inflammation and oncology.
Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS joined the faculty in July 2021 as an assistant professor in resident in the Cardiac and Pulmonary Imaging Section. Prior to joining our faculty, Dr. Sohn completed his radiology residency, T32 fellowship and fellowship at UCSF Radiology. Dr. Sohn is a physician with an engineering background and works at the intersection of big data and radiology, specifically natural language processing and cardio-thoracic imaging.
Maya Vella, MD joined the faculty in July 2021 as an assistant professor of clinical radiology in the Cardiac and Pulmonary Imaging Section. Prior to joining our faculty, Dr. Vella completed her radiology residency, T32 fellowship and fellowship at UCSF Radiology. Her current projects include creation and evaluation of an imaging-based criteria for diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis, analysis of medical student grading schema and evaluation of the natural history of pulmonary metastases in gastrointestinal tumors.
Elizabeth George, MBBS joined the faculty in July 2021 as an assistant professor of clinical radiology in the Neuroradiology Section. Prior to her faculty appointment, Dr. George served as a neuroradiology fellow and clinical instructor at UCSF Radiology. She earned her MBBS at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and held a two-year radiology research fellowship and completed her diagnostic radiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. George’s specific areas of interest lie in the evaluation of neurodevelopmental, inflammatory and neoplastic disease.
Zoe Doyle, MD joined the department in September 2021 as an assistant professor of clinical radiology in the Musculoskeletal Imaging Section. Dr. Doyle earned her MD at UC San Diego followed by a diagnostic radiology and musculoskeletal imaging fellowship at Stanford. While at Stanford, Dr. Doyle worked on Quality Improvement initiatives, and her research interests include collaborations to study how novel MRI metal-suppressive techniques can be clinically implemented in patients with hip arthroplasties and the clinical use of new accelerated isotopic sequences which would allow for the elimination of multi-planar acquisitions and potentially better evaluate anatomy that is not as well seen on the traditional planes acquired.
Please join us in extending a warm welcome to our new faculty members. We are delighted they have chosen to join our department and community.