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Dear All,
This past week we just completed the move back to the renovated office space on the second floor! We’ll have more about the office move, new aspects of the office suite, etc. in the next newsletter.
In this issue of RadNews we have articles featuring community outreach (Residents Crushing Cancer and support for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), Radiology department participation at the UMass Chan Diversity Summit, numerous individual awards, letters of appreciation, and social events (Resident summer BBQ, RSNA dinner, NIR Caregiver Luncheon, and the University and Memorial Ice Cream Socials). Please make sure to check-out the updated Radiology Residency Video and congratulate Dan Mullen winning on his trip the Boston Garden.
Wishing everyone a wonderful, peaceful holiday season with time to enjoy your family and friends.
Thank you for all you do to make our department a wonderful place to work each day.
Sincerely,
Max
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Communities Crushing Cancer is an initiative aimed at raising awareness about the importance of cancer screening. Residents at UMass Chan Medical School engaged with patients, families, and members of the local community to educate and promote screening examinations and provide them with informational brochures about the process. In collaboration with the Massachusetts Radiological Society. | |
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This holiday season the UMass Memorial Medical Center Radiology Department with the help of CT technologist Micah Levine and his wife Lisa we were able to impact the lives of 80 plus needy children in the local community. Trees with tags displaying the names of children and their desired holiday wishes were placed throughout the Radiology department on both the University and Memorial campuses. Staff had ten days to claim a tag or scan the QR code, purchase gifts and return to then be delivered to the MSPCC (Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). In this short amount of time 80+ children were able to receive their desired holiday gift.
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Alexander Bankier, MD, PhD recently received notification regarding the Memorial campus – The American College of Radiology’s Committee on CT Accreditation is pleased to inform you that your center has been designated an ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center. Now both University and Memorial campuses at UMass Memorial are ACR Designated Lung Cancer Screening Centers! | |
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A new Radiology Residency recruitment video was recently released. You can find it on the department's home page and the residency introduction page as well as in this newsletter. Check it out! | |
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Two posters from the radiology department were accepted for presentation at the recent Diversity Summit, one with chief resident Matthew Mariyampillai, MD, and the other with two medical students.
Creating and Implementing a Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Curriculum for Radiology Trainees. Ryan Tai, MD, Matthew Mariyampillai, MD, and Max Rosen, MD, MPH
Radiology Adding Value Beyond Image Interpretation: Identifying and Addressing Social Determinants of Health During a Screening Mammography Encounter. Quynh Anh (Annie D. Phan, BS, Allison M. MacKenzie, BS, Tejas S. Mehta, MD, MPH
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UMass Radiology faculty, residents students, staff and alumni attended the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago, IL.
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Congratulations to Dan Mullen RT(R) (CT) who won the grand prize Radiology Appreciation Week - two tickets to the Celtics - Cavaliers game on Thursday, December 14. The Celtics won 116-107! | |
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Patients often thank staff for their kindness but sometimes it's brought to our attention when they go the extra step to show that they efforts and thoughtfulness is appreciated. Read more from two of these at Hahnemann and Memorial campuses.
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Faculty and House Staff were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society along with medical students this fall. Honored from the department of Radiology are:
Faculty
Anna Luisa Kuhn, MD, PhD
House staff
Vaibhav Jain, MD
Kristopher Kelly, MD
Aniket Pandya, MD
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Robert King, PhD Assistant Professor, was presented a Young Investigator Award from the Society of Neuro Interventional Surgery (SNIS) to look at the impact of distal emboli after a mechanical thrombectomy procedure. the grant is titled Development and determination of the brains tolerance to embolic showers using quantitative perfusion and diffusion imaging. The grant is for $25,000. Dates, 8.1.23 to 7.31.24.
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A recent email exchange in praise of Tom Delaney!
Subject line: Tom is the best!
Hi Max,
I just wanted to give Tom Delaney a shout out. He is extraordinarily helpful, knowledgeable, dependable, and available at almost all hours of the day. He is great asset to all UMASS radiologists and we're lucky to have him!
Mike Caruso, MD
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During the 2023 annual meeting of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS), Anna Kuhn, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurointerventional Radiology, was presented with the Reviewer of the Year award for the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery (JNIS). JNIS is a leading peer review journal for scientific research and literature pertaining to the field of neurointerventional surgery. Every year, SNIS recognizes excellence in reviewing and selects the best two reviewers of the year based on the quality, quantity, and timeliness of their reviews.
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Adina Laprade, RDMS, Regional Ultrasound Manager for the University and Memorial campuses is excited to report that some long time coming training has taken place. Some training was put on hold due to the pandemic.
Ultrasound staff and Radiologists learned Liver Elastography, to offer this service to our extensive volume of patients with Liver Disease.
Three staff members attended Fundamentals of Transcranial Doppler Imaging for scanning sickle cell patients.
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The Neurointerventional Radiology Division won the Group Prize during this year’s Daily Caregiver Appreciation Week. The team could select their event of choice ($1000 maximum) and decided to do a catered lunch for all the caregivers. The event took place on Monday, July 24. The delicious food was ordered from “Mare e Monti Trattoria”, a fantastic restaurant known for quality and authentic Italian food here in Worcester.
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The Radiology Residency BBQ was held in August, at the home of Dr. Chip Watts, Residency Program Coordinator. It was a great event with lots of food, fun, and sun shine. Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to socialize together with co-residents and their families. We missed seeing Wendy and Beena, but hope they and everyone can enjoy the photos as well.
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David Deary, APP in IR at Harrington Hospital, was nominated for the 2023 Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Practice Award.
Although the committee selected another candidate to receive the award, he was recognized during the 2023 APP Awards Ceremony. View article to read nomination letter.
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The department hosted ice cream socials on both the University and Memorial campuses to welcome and introduce new residents and fellows to the department staff! There were lots of happy smiles all around! View some photos from the social on the University campus. | |
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