UCSF Radiology's Highlights from the 2022 RSNA Annual Meeting
Each year, the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging looks forward to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting. This year was especially exciting as we were all able to return to Chicago in person. Our team enjoyed the camaraderie of discussing important topics with colleagues face to face.
Faculty, post-doctoral scholars, trainees and research staff were all involved in a full schedule of lectures, courses, scientific sessions, on-demand presentations, panels, education exhibits and more. Here are a few of the highlights.
1. Education Project Award presented to Masis Isikbay, MD.
Dr. Isikbay, UCSF Radiology Chief Resident, received this year's RSNA Education Project Award. This award is intended to recognize and highlight the impact of educators by providing supplemental funding for new or ongoing education projects. Dr. Isikbay will use the grant received to further his efforts to improve clinical decision making amongst on-call radiologists.
"I am very grateful for the opportunity to pursue this work with the support of this RSNA Educational Program Award and grateful to my program director and mentor, Soonmee Cha, MD," said Dr. Isikbay.
2. Research Scholar Grant awarded to Yoo Jin Lee, MD.
Dr. Lee, an assistant professor at UCSF Radiology, received the RSNA Research Scholar Grant, which supports junior faculty members who have completed resident and fellowship programs, but haven't been recognized as independent investigators yet. Dr Lee will use the grant to further her research in imaging of active myocardial fibrosis using 68Ga-FAP-226.
3. Research Medical Student Grant presented to Gunvant Chaudhari.
Chaudhari, a medical student research assistant at UCSF Radiology, received the RSNA Research Medical Student Grant this year. The grant gives medical students the opportunity to gain research experience in medical imaging and consider academic radiology as a future career option. Chaudhari is pursuing a project entitled, "Modeling Risk of Progression to Lung-RADS 4 From a Benign Lung Cancer Screening CT Using Imaging and Clinical Data."
4. Trainee Research Prize awarded to Xiao Wu, MD.
Dr. Wu, a fellow at UCSF Radiology, was presented with an RSNA Trainee Research Prize for her work, "Gender and Racial Diversity in Radiology: Current Status and Trends in the Last Decade," in the category of noninterpretive skills, QI, safety and practice management. Congratulations, Dr. Wu!
5. Cum Laude Poster Award presented to Shravan Sridhar, MD, MS, and research team.
A poster by UCSF Radiology's Dr. Sridhar, Kimberly Kallianos, MD, Brett Elicker, MD, and former faculty member Michael Hope, MD, was awarded the Cum Laude Award at RSNA. Dr. Sridhar, an assistant professor, presented the work, titled "Unraveling the mysteries of congenital heart disease MRI: A skills-based approach."
Other UCSF Radiology honorees at RSNA included Heather Greenwood, MD, who became a Society of Breast Imaging Fellow, and Duygu Tosun-Turgut, PhD, who was named a Distinguished Investigator by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.
Congratulations to the many award winners and recipients over the course of RSNA. We are grateful for your contributions to UCSF and to radiology as a whole!
