Department Committees

Purpose/Aims: The Departmental Awards Committee seeks to make awards to recognize individuals who have made important contributions scientifically, clinically, and professionally in promoting the Departmental vision.  The Committee manages a range of specific awards soliciting applications, reviewing nominations, and forwarding recommendations to the Departmental leadership. 

Number of meetings held: Meetings occur approximately every 2 months.

2025–2026

• Thomas Link, MD, PhD (Chair) 
• Matthew Bucknor, MD, MFA
• Christine Glastonbury, MBBS
• Nola Hylton, PhD
• Tatiana Kelil, MD 
• Peder Larson, PhD
• Sharmila Majumdar, PhD
• Michael Ohliger, MD
• Jane Wang, MD

Purpose/Aims: The Department Clinical Operations Committee is multidisciplinary to provide a formal structure for communication, continuous improvement and oversight of hospital and ambulatory radiology operations. The committee reviews clinical operations for Moffitt-Long, Mount Zion and Mission Bay Hospitals, China Basin, Montgomery Street, the Precision Cancer Medicine Building, affiliated Medical Center groups and other facilities, and reports to the clinical faculty at their meetings. The group provides broad input to the Vice Chair for Clinical Operations and Executive Director for Radiology by recommending specific operational improvements; monitoring the performance and functionality of critical information systems (e.g., PACS, Apex); reviewing patient and physician satisfaction data; and defining and monitoring key performance indicators on a regular basis. The Committee is also charged with developing and refining operational dashboards to assure department clinical and technical leadership are aware of current operational performance. The Committee provides advice and guidance at a higher level to the hospital operations director. 

Number of meetings held: The Committee meets up every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. Agendas are published in advance, and minutes are kept and circulated.

Purpose/Aims: The Clinical Trials Steering Committee for the Department of Radiology is tasked with streamlining processes to support a sustainable clinical trial infrastructure.

Number of meetings held: Committee meeting occurs quarterly for 1 hour.

2025–2026

• Rajesh Shah, MD (Chair)
• Robin Cumming, PhD (Co-Chair)
• Maya Aslam
• Emma Bahroos, MSc
• Spencer Behr, MD
• Maggie Chung, MD
• Michael Hoff, PhD
• Nicholas Fidelman, MD
• Ellie Milton
• Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS
• Dan Raper, MBBS
• Kathryn Wold

• Chris Hess (chair)
• Amy Pradhan
• Janay Hansen 
• Spencer Behr
• Matt Bucknor
• Soonmee Cha
• Hailey Choi
• Bill Dillon
• Brett Elicker
• Rob Flavell
• Christine Glastonbury
• Steve Hetts
• Michael Hoff
• Tom Hope
• Bonnie Joe
• Kim Kallianos
• Tatiana Kelil
• Marc Kohli
• Pallav Kolli
• Thomas Link
• Sharmila Majumdar
• Alastair Martin
• Tom McElderry
• John Mongan
• Liz Odell
• Michael Ohliger
• Melinda Parangan-Chu
• Michael Parsa
• Liina Poder 
• David Saloner
• Vinil Shah
• Ray Sze
• Jason Talbott
• Javier Villanueva-Meyer
• Jane Wang
• Mark Wilson
• Chief Residents: Eric Lopez, Neda Ghassemi, and Michael Romano

2025 – 2026 

• Emma Webb, MD (Chair)
• Matt Amans, MD
• Matt Barkovich, MD
• Taylor Chung, MD
• Miles Conrad, MD, PhD
• Shital Gandhi, MD
• Alexandra Gersing, MD, PhD
• Joseph Leach, MD
• Jonathan Liu, MD, MS
• Kevin McGill, MD, MPH
• Sujal Nanavati, MD
• Elissa Price, MD
• Leo Sugrue, MD, PhD
• Maya Vella, MD
• Khai Vu, MD
• Cynthia Wu, MD

Purpose/Aims: The merits and promotions {M&P] committee are full professors who evaluate the advancement packets of eligible faculty for actions to be effective the following July 1st.  Each committee member is assigned several packets to be reviewed prior to the monthly meetings, and at the meetings the packets are presented by committee members, reviewed and discussed. The committee has an [anonymous] voting process for determination of department support for each merit or promotion action. 

Number of meetings held: Committee meets for 2 hours monthly from July to December.  Pre-meeting candidate packet reviews required for August through December meetings.

• Christine Glastonbury, MBBS (Chair)
• Matthew Bucknor, MD, MFA
• Taylor Chung, MD
• Miles Conrad, MD
• Bonnie Joe, MD, PhD
• Janine Lupo, PhD
• Sri Nagaranjan, PhD
• Miguel Hernandez Pampaloni, MD, PhD
• Elissa Price, MD
• Sabrina Ronen, PhD
• David Saloner, PhD
• Jane Wang, MD
• Mark Wilson, MD

Purpose/Aims: Establish, maintain, and routinely review MR safety policies and procedures at UCSF. Provide guidance as needed to non-Radiology Departments operating MRI as well as UCSF affiliate sites. Review and address MRI safety incidents. Bi-annual reporting to Department Quality and Safety Committee.

Number of meetings held: Meeting occurs monthly for an hour 

2025–2026:

• Michael Ohliger, MD, PhD (Chair)
• Curtis Abercrombie
• Matt Barkovich, MD
• Christina Calvin
• Linda Chao, PhD
• Taylor Chung, MD
• James Cook, MD
• Michael Deguzman (SFGH)
• Craig Devincent
• Carrie Dore
• Jordan (Kaitz) Emba
• Mary Frost
• Elizabeth George, MBBS
• Michael Hoff, PhD
• Kimberly Kallianos, MD
• Marie Ouano-Kim (SFGH)
• Yoo Jin Lee, MD
• Yan Li, PhD
• Nigel Lucas
• Kevin McGill, MD  MPH
• Alastair Martin, PhD
• Dimitrios Mitsouras, PhD
• Michael Parsa, MD
• Jessica Scholey
• Lara Stables
• Lisa Singer
• William Stern
• Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD
• An (Joseph) Vu, PhD
• Kang Wang, MD, PhD
• Jeffrey White
• Duan Xu, PhD
• Daehyun Yoon, PhD

Number of meetings held: Committee meetings occur once quarterly with intervening subgroup meetings.

• Christopher Brunson, MD (Chair)
• Rukayah Abdolcader
• Matthew Bucknor, MD 
• Cindy Cheng
• Jessica Gibbs
• Christine Glastonbury, MD
• Faye Hoang
• Roxanna Juarez, MD 
• Kimberly Kallianos, MD 
• Vishal Kumar, MD 
• Sharmila Majumdar, PhD 
• Kevin McGill, MD, MPH 
• Melanie Morrison, PhD
• Weiya Mu, MD 
• Stephanie Murphy
• Ma. Lourdes Palad
• Tijana Popovic
• Amrutha Ramachandran, MD
• Martin Rawlings-Fein
• Hanh Ryan
• Sonam Shrestha
• Maya Vella, MD
• Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD 
• Joseph (An) Vu, PhD 
• Emma Webb, MD 
• Mark Wilson, MD 
• Samira Zebarjadian​

Purpose/aims: To direct UCSF Radiology’s Continuing Medical Education (CME) program which involves choosing course destinations, determining course content, and directing the educational content of our courses.  The goal is to maximize the success of our CME program and ensure that the missions of the program are being fulfilled.

Number of meetings held: Every 1st Tuesday of each month.

• Brett Elicker, MD (Chair)
• Soonmee Cha, MD
• William Dillon, MD
• Heather Greenwood, MD
• Yi Li, MD
• Liina Poder, MD
• Elissa Price, MD
• Vinil Shah, MD
• Lori Strachowski, MD
• Maya Vella, MD

Number of meetings held: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday's of each month 

• Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD (Chair)
• Waqas Alam
• Tosca Bridges
• Hailey Choi
• Chelsy Coco
• Daniel (Dan) Cooke
• Craig Devincent
• Corey Fuller
• Jeff Geiger
• Orit Glenn
• Brian Haas
• Whitney Higbee
• Kimberly Kallianos
• Marc Kohli
• Pallav Kolli
• Cassie Nath
• Alpana Patel Camilli
• Daphne Penaflor
• Jessica Pfannenstiel
• Liina Poder
• Michelle Swenson
• Andrew Taylor
• Amy Vincent
• Sean Woolen
• Spencer Behr
• Vinny Sharma
• David Sostarich
• Michael Hoff
• James Cook
• Leo Sugrue
• Roxanna Juarez
• Michael Ohliger
• Elizabeth Odell
• Jeremy Montemayor
• Sina Houshmand
• Shravan Sridhar
• Jennifer Chiu
• Caitlin Chesser
• William Sylvain
• Joelle Harwin
• Laurie Cash
• Daria Motamedia
• Rachelle Durand
• Heather Greenwood
• Lisa Liu
• Jennifer Paoletti
• Alexander Lam
• Luke Bonham

Purpose/Aims: The Radiation Protection Committee is involved in monitoring radiation exposure within Radiology and developing guidelines for standards for radiation use.  The committee is comprised of radiologists, technologists, nurses, representatives from medical physics, radiation safety, and the catheterization lab, as well as representatives from the radiology residency. The goal of the committee is to monitor and ensure judicious use of radiation in patients undergoing diagnostic imaging and image-guided procedures as well as to design and implement policies related to the use and delivery of radiation for medical imaging. 

Number of meetings held: Committee meets monthly every 4th Monday   

2025–2026

• Kimberly Kallianos, MD (Chair)
• Douglas Avadikian
• Spence Behr, MD
• Lisa Burke
• Shin Mei Chan
• Cynthia Chin, MD
• Jennifer Chiu
• Pierre Cohen, MD
• James Cook, MD
• John Cunningham
• Brandon Fields, MD
• Bridget Forte
• Jessica Greif
• Brandon Holmes
• Brian Haas, MD
• Michael Hoff, PhD
• Sina Houshmand, MD
• Masis Isikbay, MD
• Collin Ma
• John Morkos
• Alpana Patel
• Daphne Penaflor
• Jessica Pfannenstiel
• David Poon 
• Enzo Poretta
• Vinny Sharma
• Shravan Sridhar, MD
• Max Stahl
• Michelle Swenson
• William Sylvain
• Jeff White
• Benjamin Yeh, MD
• Tommy Yohannan, MD

Purpose/Aims: The Research Safety and Compliance Committee is established to facilitate laboratory safety, compliant and safe animal and human research across different campus sites (China Basin Imaging Center, Mission Bay) for research performed using Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging resources. The committee will ensure research studies:

1. Will not compromise patient safety and patient care.
2. Will not compromise the safety of the staff and faculty conducting the research.
3. Will be conducted according to high standards of safety.
4. Will be in compliance with regulatory, radiation safety, IRB, IACUC, Biosafety, EH&S, Chemical Safety, FDA and NIH and other current local and federal regulations.
5. Training and adequate information with regards to safe and appropriate procedures, responsibilities will be provided on a regular basis to all individuals performing studies.
6. Conduct and Review Internal Quarterly Inspections
7. In case of events occurring that are violation of safety, compliance procedures the committee will evaluate the circumstances, and if modifications are required to the procedures and departmental policies, the committee will make recommendations.

Number of meetings held: The committee will meet quarterly, and as needed if there is an occurrence. Each meeting lasts approximately 1 hour and is held virtually.

2025–2026

• Michael Evans, PhD (co-chair)
• Dan Vigneron, PhD (co-chair)
• Rukayah Abdolcader 
• Maya Aslam
• Emma Bahroos
• Joseph Blecha
• Robert Bok, MD, PhD
• Steaven Campbell
• Heather Daniels
• Lynn Delos Santos
• Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
• Jeremy Gordon, PhD
• Robin Ippisch, PhD
• Galateia Kazakia, PhD
• Kambiz Nael, MD
• Peder Larson, PhD
• Yan Li, PhD
• Mary McPolin
• Teri Moore 
• Matthew Parker, PhD
• Vahid Ravanfar
• Andrew Riselli
• Kim Semien
• Youngho Seo, PhD
• Renuka Sriram, PhD
• Ryan Tang
• Henry VanBrocklin, PhD
• Pavithra Viswanath, PhD
• Duan Xu, PhD
• Yang Yang, PhD
• Joseph Vu, PhD
• Mabel Zelaya

​Purpose/Aims: As part of the ACGME Milestones Project, we are required to form this committee as the main governing body to officially evaluate all residents twice per year. The responsibility of the members of the CCC will be to make a consensus decision on the progressive resident performance on achievement of the specialty-specific Milestones for each individual resident. The Clinical Competency Committee will advise the Program Director regarding each resident’s progress and offer any recommendations as needed. A benefit of the CCC approach is that it will offer the resident evaluation process the insight and perspectives of a group of faculty members. CCC members will include core faculty members from different subspecialties and different training sites who have the opportunity to observe and evaluate residents.

Number of meetings held: Committee meetings are held semi-annually. Each meeting takes approximately 2 hours and is held virtually. Committee meetings occur every 6 months, in the winter and summer. CCC Members serve for 2 academic years starting July 1 and ending June 30^th.

2025 – 2026

• Joe Leach, MD (Chair)
• Matt Barkovich, MD
• Ellen Chang, MD
• Maggie Chung, MD
• Alexandra Gersing, MD, PhD
• Cheng William Hong, MD
• Vishal Kumar, MD
• Amie Lee, MD
• Shrav Sridhar, MD, MS
• Derek Sun, MD
• Jason Talbot, MD
• Yingbing Wang, MD
• Maya Vella, MD
• Allen Ye, MD

Purpose/Aims: Residency recruitment committee members play a vital role in the selection process of residency applicants by providing valuable input in generating a strong pool of candidates for interviews who are best qualified to meet the needs, mission, and vision of the residency program.

Responsibilities of recruitment committee members include: 

• Attend and participate in all meetings scheduled by the Recruitment Committee Chair – September and February 
• Remain flexible with their schedule to guarantee participation in all meetings and interviews – nine dates in January
• Assist with developing and carrying out the recruitment plan. 
• Use the Online Smartsheet objectively to review and score residency applicants for qualifications. 
• Creates interview questions and forwards them to the Recruitment Committee Chair. 
• Participates in at least 4 dates of the interviews and provides constructive feedback to the committee as it relates to the candidates qualifications for the residency. 
• Meets all deadlines set by the chair. 
• Maintain the confidentiality of all committee proceedings, identity of the candidates, and all communications with the candidates.

 2025–2026 Members:

• Jessica Hayward, MD (Co-chair)
• Jared Narvid, MD (Co-chair)
• Soonmee Cha, MD
• Ellen Chang, MD
• Joelle Harwin, MD
• Masis Isikbay, MD
• Alyssa Kirsch, MD
• Daria Motamedi, MD
• Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS
• Leo Sugrue, MD
• Jason Talbott, MD
• Yingbing Wang, MD
• Mark Wilson, MD
• Allen Ye, MD
• Eric Lopez, MD
• Neda Ghassemi, MD
• Michael Romano, MD, PhD

Purpose/Aims: The scientific steering committees have been established for supporting each research core within the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. Scientific Steering Committees, comprised of faculty users of the core, are tasked with ensuring that the operations of the core is aligned with the scientific mission of the department, and that current resources and needs for the core are adequate. The committees focus are scientific mission-driven.

• NTRC Steering Committee: (Chair: Leo Sugrue, MD, PhD)
• China Basin MRI Steering Committee: (Chair: Yang Yang, PhD)
• QB3/MB MRI Steering Committee: (Chair: Daniel Vigneron, PhD)
• QMIF Steering Committee: (Chair: Galateia Kazakia, PhD)
• MEG Steering Committee: (Chair: Sri Nagarajan, PhD)
• RPF Steering Committee: (Chair: Robert Flavell, MD, PhD)
• IPMR Steering Committee: (Chair: David Saloner, PhD)
• MB Preclinical Steering Committee: (Chair: Renuka Sriram, PhD)
• PCB Preclinical Steering Committee: (Chair: Youngho Seo, PhD)

Purpose/Aims: The Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging’s seed grant program is intended to support the initial stages of new research, in preparation for attracting additional funding at a later stage from extramural sources. The Seed Grant Committee reviews applications from department and collaborating faculty submitted online and makes decisions about the number and amount of seed grants to award. The group is chaired by Dr. Michael Evans PhD.

Number of meetings held: The committee meets at least twice a year to review and award seed grants.

• Michael Evans, PhD (Chair)
• Linda Chao, PhD
• Rob Flavell, MD, PhD
• Elizabeth George, MD
• Yan Li, PhD
• Jing Liu, PhD
• Susanne Mueller, PhD
• Jared Narvid, MD
• Sabrina Ronen, PhD
• Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS
• Dan Vigneron, PhD
• Pavithra Viswanath, PhD
• Joseph Vu, PhD
• Jane Wang, MD

Purpose and aims: Chairs review and solicit topics and speaker ideas for various lectures to be discussed and voted on by committee. Each committee member thoroughly reviews candidates and is assigned a FAIR or lecture to coordinate. Before the Radiology Research Symposium, members review submitted abstracts and decide on oral/poster presentations. At the Radiology Research Symposium, members review and rank oral presentations and posters for awards.

Number of meetings held: Quarterly 1 hr meetings plus ~4 additional meetings leading up to the Radiology Research Symposium.

2025–2026

• Yan Li, PhD (Co-Chair)
• Esther Yuh, MD, PhD (Co-Chair)
• Pierre Cohen, MD 
• Linda Chao, PhD
• Heather Greenwood, MD
• Daria Motamedi, MD
• Susanne Mueller, MD
• Asish Raj, PhD
• David Saloner, PhD
• Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS
• Derek Sun, MD
• Henry VanBrocklin, PhD
• Khai Vu, MD
• Pavithra Viswanath, PhD
• Kang Wang, MD, PhD
• Yingbing Wang, MD
•  Residents (one rep at each meeting)
• Cindy Cheng