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.

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

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: As part of our Department’s research infrastructure redesign, we have created a CRC (Clinical Research Coordinators) core scientific steering committee to help realign resources to invest in research as a key component of our Department vision and strategy.

The CRC core provides expertise in conducting clinical research studies related to imaging and image-guided therapies. It supports investigators with study set-up and management, IRB submissions, and provides guidance on standard operating procedures to ensure regulatory compliance. The CRC scientific steering committee is tasked with setting goals and priorities for supporting clinical research programs consistent with our strategic mission, and empowering and partnering with staff in achieving operational and safety goals. You can learn more about the CRC core. 

Number of meetings held: The scientific steering committee meets every other month. 

• Jane Wang, MD (Chair)
• Emma Bahroos
• Spencer Behr, MD
• Mike Evans, PhD
• Tom Hope, MD
• Peter Lokken, MD
• Sharmila Majumdar, PhD
• Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD
• Mabel Vigil

Purpose/Aims: The Development Committee explores opportunities for philanthropy directed at radiology research, teaching, faculty support and infrastructure.

Number of meetings held: Committee meetings occur quarterly.

• Steven Hetts, MD (Chair)
• William Dillon, MD
• Heather Greenwood, MD
• Yan Li, PhD
• Yi Li, MD
• Susanne Mueller, MD
• Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS
• Duygu Tosun, PhD
• Dan Vigneron, PhD
• Pavithra Viswanath, PhD
• Cynthia Wu, MD
• Yang Yang, PhD
• Janelle Arquiza
• Eileen Murphy

Purpose/Aims: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee works to promote DEI initiatives throughout the department. The core aspects of this work include programs related to pipeline, selection, and education that span from the level of working with underrepresented high school students to recruiting diverse faculty to empower departmental excellence. The Research Initiative to promote Diversity in Radiology (RIDR) is the committee’s flagship program, recruiting more than 15 high school, college, and medical students from backgrounds underrepresented in radiology to participate in an 8 week summer research internship experience each year. The committee also works to advocate for initiatives related to promoting health equity. The committee’s accountability structure is governed chiefly by the annual department diversity and inclusion action plan which is submitted each year to the Chairs and Directors Council on Diversity (CD2). 

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

• Tatiana Kelil, MD (Co-chair)
• Preethi Raghu, MD (Co-chair)
• Matthew Bucknor, MD 
• Linda Chao, PhD
• Christine Glastonbury, MD 
• Roxanna Juarez, MD 
• Kimberly Kallianos, MD 
• Vishal Kumar, MD 
• Sharmila Majumdar, PhD 
• Kevin McGill, MD, MPH 
• Melanie Morrison, PhD 
• Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD 
• Susan Wall, MD 
• Emma Webb, MD 
• Mark Wilson, MD 
• Cynthia Wu, MD
• Samira Zebarjadian​

• Christopher Hess, MD, PhD (chair)
• Spencer Behr, MD
• Matthew Bucknor, MD, MFA
• Katherine Cecil, MD
• Soonmee Cha, MD
• Jesse Courtier, MD
• William Dillon, MD
• Madhavi Duwuri, Mphil
• Brett Elicker, MD
• Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
• Christine Glastonbury, MBBS
• Steve Hetts, MD
• Michael Hoff, PhD
• Thomas Hope, MD
• Bonnie Joe, MD, PhD
• Kimberly Kallianos, MD
• Marc Kohli, MD
• Pallav Kolli, MD
• Thomas Link, MD, PhD
• Sharmila Majumdar, PhD
• Alastair Martin, PhD
• Thomas McElderry
• John Mongan, MD, PhD
• Michael Ohliger, MD, PhD
• Melinda Parangan-Chu
• Michael Parsa, MD
• Liina Poder, MD
• Amy Pradhan, MS, MPH
• David Saloner, PhD
• Vinil Shah, MD
• David Sostarich, MBA, BRST
• Raymond Sze, MD, MAMS
• Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD
• Stephen Wahlig, MD
• Susan Wall, MD
• Z. Jane Wang, MD
• Mark Wilson, MD 

• Emma Webb, MD (Chair)
• Matt Amans, MD
• Matt Barkovich, MD
• Taylor Chung, MD
• Miles Conrad, MD, PhD
• Shital Gandhi, MD
• 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
• Susan Wall, MD
• 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 

• Michael Ohliger, MD, PhD (Chair)
• Michael Hoff
• Javier Villanueva-Meyer
• Matt Barkovich
• Kimberly Kallianos
• Yoo Jin Lee
• Kevin McGill
• Jesse Courtier
• Alastair Martin
• Duan Xu
• Daehyun Yoon
• Linda Chao
• Dimitrios Mitsouras
• An (Joseph) Vu
• Jessica Scholey
• Lisa Singer
• Taylor Chung
• Craig Devincent
• Christina Calvin
• James Cook
• Carrie Dore
• Mary Frost
• Jeremy Montemayor
• Tri Nguyen
• Lara Stables
• William Stern
• Michael Deguzman (SFGH)
• Marie Ouano-Kim (SFGH)
• Nigel Lucas
• Jeffrey White
• Kevin Lofton
• Christopher Yantis

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
• Jesse Courtier, 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
• Susan Wall, 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
• Devin Dixon
• Corey Fuller
• Jeff Geiger
• Orit Glenn
• Brian Haas
• Whitney Higbee
• Kimberly Kallianos
• Marc Kohli
• Pallav Kolli
• Cassie Nath
• Alpana Patel Camili
• 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   

• Kimberly Kallianos, MD (Chair)
• Douglas Avadikian
• Spencer Behr, MD
• Tosca Bridges 
• Lisa Burke
• Alpana Patel Camili
• Cynthia Chin, MD
• Pierre Cohen, MD
• James Cook, MD 
• Jesse Courtier, MD
• John Cunningham
• Andrew Fenster, MD
• Isaac Ghansah, MD, MS 
• John Gratzle
• Jessica Greif
• Brian Haas, MD
• Michael Hoff, PhD
• Brandon Holmes
• Sina Houshmand, MD
• Ryan Kohlbrenner, MD
• Collin Ma
• Michael P. O'Leary
• Daphne Penaflor
• Jessica Pfannenstiel, BRST (R) (CT)
• David Poon
• Vinny Sharma
• David Sostarich, MBA, BRST
• Shrav Sridhar, MD 
• Michelle Swenson
• Kyle Thornton
• Benjamin Yeh, 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.

• Michael Evans, PhD (co-chair)
• Dan Vigneron, PhD (co-chair)
• Rukayah Abdolcader 
• Maya Aslam
• Emma Bahroos
• Joseph Blecha
• Robert Bok, MD, PhD
• Steaven Campbell
• Myriam Chaumeil, PhD
• Heather Daniels
• Lynn Delos Santos
• Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
• Jeremy Gordon, PhD
• Robin Ippisch, PhD
• Galateia Kazakia, PhD
• John Kurhanewicz, PhD
• Peder Larson, PhD
• Yan Li, PhD
• Mary McPolin, MT
• 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
• Joseph Vu, PhD
• Mabel Vigil

​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.

• Joseph Leach, MD, PhD (chair)
• Matt Barkovich, MD
• Hailey Choi, MD
• Rita Freimanis, MD
• Brian Haas, MD
• Ryan Kohlbrenner, MD
• Amie Lee, MD
• Sujal Nanavati, MD
• Vinil Shah, MD
• Shrav Sridhar, MD, MS
• Derek Sun, MD
• Jason Talbott, 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.

 Members:

• Jessica Hayward, MD (Co-chair)
• Jared Narvid, MD (Co-chair)
• Soonmee Cha, MD
• Andrew Chang, MD
• Maggie Chung, MD
• Eric Davis, MD
• Joelle Harwin, MD
• Masis Isikbay, MD
• Amanda Liu, MD
• Weiya Mu, MD
• Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS
• Leo Sugrue, MD, PhD
• Jason Talbott, MD
• Lexi Tatem, MD
• Yingbing Wang, MD
• Mark Wilson, MD
• Allen Ye, MD, PhD

Purpose/Aims: As part of our Department’s research infrastructure redesign, we have created a CRC (Clinical Research Coordinators) core scientific steering committee to help realign resources to invest in research as a key component of our Department vision and strategy.

The CRC core provides expertise in conducting clinical research studies related to imaging and image-guided therapies. It supports investigators with study set-up and management, IRB submissions, and provides guidance on standard operating procedures to ensure regulatory compliance. The CRC scientific steering committee is tasked with setting goals and priorities for supporting clinical research programs consistent with our strategic mission, and empowering and partnering with staff in achieving operational and safety goals. You can learn more about the CRC core. 

Number of meetings held: The scientific steering committee meets every other month and is chaired by Dr. Jane Wang. 

• Clinical Research Coordinators: (Chair: Jane Wang, MD)
• Cyclotron: (Chair: Robert Flavell, MD, PhD)
• Research/QB3: (Chair: Dan Vigneron, PhD)
• Blended Research/Clinical: (Chair: Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD)
• Extremity CT (China Basin): (Chair: Galateia Kazakia, PhD)
• MEG (Parnassus, Mission Bay): (Chair: Srikantan Nagarajan, PhD)
• MRI (Parnassus): (Chair: David Saloner, PhD)
• NMR: (Co-Chairs: Renuka Sriram, PhD and John Kurhanewicz, PhD)
• MicroPET/MicroCT: (Co-Chairs: Youngho Seo, PhD and David Wilson, MD, PhD)
• Research Image Analysis (RIA): (Chair: Spencer Behr, MD)
• Scientific Computing Services (SCS): (Chair: John Mongan, MD, 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.

• Yan Li, PhD (Co-Chair)
• Esther Yuh, MD, PhD (Co-Chair)
• Linda Chao, PhD
• Heather Greenwood, MD
• Daria Motamedi, MD
• Susanne Mueller, MD
• 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
• Cindy Cheng