Brandon Fields, MD

Resident
RESIDENT

Biography

Brandon K.K. Fields, M.D., is a radiology resident at the University of California, San Francisco. A Colorado native, he earned his undergraduate degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder in Integrative Physiology and Classical Guitar Performance in 2014, and his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in 2021. His research interests include investigating quantitative imaging and machine learning applications for tumor characterization and treatment response.

Education

06/2026 - Residency, Diagnostic Radiology, University of California, San Francisco
06/2022 - Internship, Transitional Year, Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
M.D., 05/2021 - Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
B.M., 05/2014 - Classical Guitar Performance, University of Colorado Boulder
B.A., 05/2014 - Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder

Honors and Awards

Top Doctor, Best In California Magazine Doctor Edition, 2023
26th Annual Sue Geller Medical Arts Award, Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, 2022
26th Annual Jack Geller Research Award for Best Original Investigation Oral Presentation, Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, 2022
Graduation with Distinction in Research, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2021
Graduation "with Highest Distinction", Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2021
Award for Academic Excellence for Years I-IV (Valedictorian), Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2021
Elected to the Order of Arête, University of Southern California, 2021
Elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2020
Dean’s Recognition Year III/IV Continuum, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2020
Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2020
Outstanding Graduate of the College (Valedictorian), University of Colorado Boulder College of Arts & Sciences, 2014
Summa cum laude, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder College of Arts & Sciences, 2014
Graduation "with Highest Honors", Classical Guitar Performance, University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, 2014
Elected to Pi Kappa Lambda (national honor society for music), University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, 2013
Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award, University of Colorado Boulder Chapter, 2012
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, University of Colorado Boulder College of Arts & Sciences, 2011

Publications

Fields BKK, Joe BN. Screening Breast MRI Effectively Detects Early-Stage Breast Cancer in High-Risk Patients without Prior History of Breast Cancer. Radiol Imaging Cancer. 2024 Mar; 6(2):e249005.
Matcuk GR, Skalski MR, Patel DB, Fields BKK, Waldman LE, Spinnato P, Gholamrezanezhad A, Katal S. Lower extremity infections: Essential anatomy and multimodality imaging findings. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Jan 20.
Matcuk GR, Katal S, Gholamrezanezhad A, Spinnato P, Waldman LE, Fields BKK, Patel DB, Skalski MR. Imaging of lower extremity infections: predisposing conditions, atypical infections, mimics, and differentiating features. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Jan 19.
Kinkar KK, Fields BKK, Yamashita MW, Varghese BA. Empowering breast cancer diagnosis and radiology practice: advances in artificial intelligence for contrast-enhanced mammography. Front Radiol. 2023; 3:1326831.
Fields BKK, Luker G, Applebaum, A. Family caregiving. Radiology: Imaging Cancer Podcasts. 2023.
Fields BKK, Joe BN. Survival Benefits of Repeated Breast Cancer Screening. Radiol Imaging Cancer. 2023 11; 5(6):e239019.
Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Ahmadzadehfar H, Yordanova A, Nabipour I, Jokar N, Assadi M, Joyce P, Gholamrezanezhad A. Imaging approach to pediatric and adolescent familial cancer syndromes. In: Hannah-Shmouni F, ed. Familial endocrine cancer syndromes: navigating the transition of care for pediatric and adolescent patients. 2023; 127–148.
Gorolay VV, Fields BKK, Shah VN. Discal cysts and pseudocysts: single center experience. Interventional Pain Medicine. 2023; 2(3):100278.
Varghese BA, Fields BKK, Hwang DH, Duddalwar VA, Matcuk GR, Cen SY. Spatial assessments in texture analysis: what the radiologist needs to know. Front Radiol. 2023; 3:1240544.
Rich JM, Bhardwaj LN, Shah A, Gangal K, Rapaka MS, Oberai AA, Fields BKK, Matcuk GR, Duddalwar VA. Deep learning image segmentation approaches for malignant bone lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Radiol. 2023; 3:1241651.
Srivastava R, Fields BKK, Shah V, Cha S. Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma. Radiological Society of North America Case Collection. 2023.
Fields BKK, Matcuk GR Jr. Microlearning curriculum series: tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT)/pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS). Radiological Society of North America Case Collection. 2023.
Matcuk GR Jr, Gross JS, Patel DB, Fields BKK, Lapalma DM, Stahl D. Musculoskeletal imaging. In: Gholamrezanezhad A, Assadi M, Jadvar H, eds. Radiology-nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging: a correlative approach. 2023; 577-624.
Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Cen SY, Varghese BA, Hwang DH, Lei X, Desai B, Duddalwar V, Matcuk GR. Predicting Soft Tissue Sarcoma Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Using an MRI-Based Delta-Radiomics Approach. Mol Imaging Biol. 2023 08; 25(4):776-787.
Frank V, Doshi A, Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Song C, Lei X, Reddy S, Desai B, Harvey DC, Cen S, Gholamrezanezhad A. Educational, psychosocial, and clinical impact of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic on medical students in the United States. World J Virol. 2022 May 25; 11(3):150-169.
Demirjian NL, Varghese BA, Cen SY, Hwang DH, Aron M, Siddiqui I, Fields BKK, Lei X, Yap FY, Rivas M, Reddy SS, Zahoor H, Liu DH, Desai M, Rhie SK, Gill IS, Duddalwar V. CT-based radiomics stratification of tumor grade and TNM stage of clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Eur Radiol. 2022 Apr; 32(4):2552-2563.
Lee P, Fields BKK, Liang T, Dubé MP, Politano S. Veillonella Bacteremia in Alcoholic Hepatitis. Case Reports Hepatol. 2021; 2021:9947213.
Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Hwang DH, Varghese BA, Cen SY, Lei X, Desai B, Duddalwar V, Matcuk GR. Whole-tumor 3D volumetric MRI-based radiomics approach for distinguishing between benign and malignant soft tissue tumors. Eur Radiol. 2021 Nov; 31(11):8522-8535.
Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Cen SY, Lei X, Gholamrezanezhad A. Reply to "Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of radiologists". Clin Imaging. 2021 11; 79:102-103.
Oshay RR, Chen MYC, Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Lee RS, Mosallaei D, Gholamrezanezhad A. COVID-19 in pregnancy: a systematic review of chest CT findings and associated clinical features in 427 patients. Clin Imaging. 2021 Jul; 75:75-82.
Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Dadgar H, Gholamrezanezhad A. Imaging of COVID-19: CT, MRI, and PET. Semin Nucl Med. 2021 07; 51(4):312-320.
Pan J, St Pierre JM, Pickering TA, Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Desai B, Gholamrezanezhad A. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Modeling Study of Factors Driving Variation in Case Fatality Rate by Country. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 11 05; 17(21).
Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, DeBoer C, Stemen D, Hwang DH. 3D printing novel PPE for response to COVID-19 related shortages. 2020; Proc SPIE 11583, 115830O.
Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Song C, Reddy S, Desai B, Cen SY, Salehi S, Gholamrezanezhad A. Impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on healthcare workers: A nationwide survey of United States radiologists. Clin Imaging. 2020 Dec; 68:218-225.
Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Gholamrezanezhad A. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnostic technologies: A country-based retrospective analysis of screening and containment procedures during the first wave of the pandemic. Clin Imaging. 2020 Nov; 67:219-225.
Demirjian NL, Fields BKK, Gholamrezanezhad A. Role of Chest CT in Resource-Driven Healthcare Systems. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2020 09; 215(3):W36.
Fields BKK, Matcuk GR Jr, Lai D, Lee A, Dwabe S, Hanlon C, Demirjian NL, Politano S. Primary hepatic angiosarcoma: a case-based discussion of unique presentations and extrahepatic manifestations. Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports. 2020; 1:100012.
Azam SA, Myers L, Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Patel D, Roberge E, Gholamrezanezhad A, Reddy S. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Review of guidelines for resuming non-urgent imaging and procedures in radiology during Phase II. Clin Imaging. 2020 Nov; 67:30-36.
Fields BKK, Demirjian NL, Balakrishnan S, Gholamrezanezhad A. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): an update on neurologic sequelae. Neurodiem. 2020.
Fields BKK, Hwang D, Cen S, Desai B, Gulati M, Hu J, Duddalwar V, Varghese B, Matcuk GR. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (q-MRI) for the assessment of soft-tissue sarcoma treatment response: a narrative case review of technique development. Clin Imaging. 2020 Jul; 63:83-93.
Matcuk GR, Gross JS, Fields BKK, Cen S. Compressed Sensing MR Imaging (CS-MRI) of the Knee: Assessment of Quality, Inter-reader Agreement, and Acquisition Time. Magn Reson Med Sci. 2020 Aug 03; 19(3):254-258.
Fields BKK, Skalski MR, Patel DB, White EA, Tomasian A, Gross JS, Matcuk GR. Adhesive capsulitis: review of imaging findings, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and treatment options. Skeletal Radiol. 2019 Aug; 48(8):1171-1184.
Volk N, Paul ED, Haramati S, Eitan C, Fields BKK, Zwang R, Gil S, Lowry CA, Chen A. MicroRNA-19b associates with Ago2 in the amygdala following chronic stress and regulates the adrenergic receptor beta 1. J Neurosci. 2014 11 05; 34(45):15070-82.
Fields BKK. The effects of microRNA-19b overexpression and knockdown in the basolateral amygdaloid nucleus on noradrenergic metabolism. 2014.