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Welcome to our Winter ’23 newsletter,
As our department continues to grow, it’s becoming more challenging to stay connected with each. One of the ways to keep the department on a “personal level” is to share unique backgrounds/interests/talents that we each have. In this month’s newsletter we feature Chris Baker’s talent as a cartoonist. (I have known Chris since I was a resident, but only learned of his interest a few months ago). We will also try to feature a project or initiative that is underway in the department and are starting off with a multi-department project to reduce radiology discharge barriers – lead by Kevin Reynolds and Steve Baccei. In addition, we continue to share individual and “team” accomplishments, new grants and publications, and social and community engagements.
If you have something that you would like to share with the department please contact me or Charlene Baron.
Best.
Max
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Christopher Baker - Hidden Talent - Cartooning | |
Among the large and diverse group of individuals who collectively make up the Department of Radiology at UMass Memorial, there are hidden extracurricular talents and skill sets; extreme athletes, artists, dancers, designers, inventors, musicians, poets and writers. Recently we became aware of the cartooning talents of Dr. Christopher Baker. Several of Dr. Baker’s cartoons were included in the Arts and Humanities programs in both the American College of Radiology and the Mass Medical Society.
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Dr. Bankier Awarded DIGI Grant | |
Alexander Bankier, MD, PhD and his team have been awarded one of the inaugural Digital Health Insights Grants (DIGI Grant). They have been approved to receive funding in the amount of $35,000 for calendar year 2023.
Project Title: AI-based Population Screening for Pulmonary Emphysema Using CT.
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Ryan Tai Presents at AMA Health Systems Summit | |
The AMA Health Systems Science Summit offered the wonderful opportunity to share the efforts that we have undertaken to teach our trainees topics related to healthcare disparities, diversity, and inclusion at the national level. We presented the DEI Chief Conference Series that Max and I held for the radiology trainees, where we went over a variety of topics including implicit bias, cultural competency and humility, healthcare disparities within radiology, variations in social determinants of health within our patient communities, and efforts to address health inequities.
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International Pre-Clinical Neurointerventional Study | |
UMASS Chan is honored to have successfully completed with Gentuity the preclinical studies to make possible the first-in-man HF-OCT imaging done at St. Michael’s Hospital, in Toronto.
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Appreciation for Tejas Mehta from JACR
A recent message sent to radiology chair Max Rosen praising associate professor Tejas Mehta, MD, MPH from the editor-in-chief of the Journal of American College of Radiology (JACR).
A member of your group, Dr. Tejas Mehta, is a 2022 Exceptional Reviewer. We truly appreciate this contribution to the literature that moves our specialty forward.
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Clinical Faculty Service on Local, Regional, National and International Committees | |
Many faculty share their time and expertise on association and organization committees.
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Addressing Discharge Barriers at UMass Memorial | |
A multi-department project to reduce radiology discharge barriers and improve communications has had significant impact on patient care. The secure chat process between the clinical services and radiology to facilitate timely discharges that radiology staff helped build and implement was featured in a white paper by Catalysis. Kevin Reynolds was part of a promotional podcast for the project as well.
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New Transmission Electron Microscope
The Electron Microscopy Core has installed the latest addition to the lab, a ThermoFisher (FEI) Tecnai G2 T20 Transmission Electron Microscope. This instrument was a gift from the HHMI at Janelia Research Campus and is a major upgrade to the older CM120 that it is replacing.
The FEI Tecnai TF20 is a 200kV high-resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), suitable for room-temperature and cryo applications, including imaging of specimens ranging from single molecules to semi-thick frozen cells or plastic-embedded sections for electron tomography to produce 3-dimensional reconstructions of biological structures.
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Welcome Back Dr. Adib Karam | |
The radiology department is pleased to welcome back Adib Karam, MD. Dr. Karam has taken on the role of Radiology Chief at Harrington Hospital and is an associate professor in the Abdominal Imaging division.
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Ultrasound with Radiology Interest Group
Drs. George Watts and Ryan Tai held a hands-on ultrasound session for students in the UMass Chan Radiology Interest Group (RIG) using four butterfly ultrasounds.
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Behroze Vaccha Praised for Most Downloaded Paper in European Radiology 2022
Behroze Vaccha, MD, PhD, associate professor and division chief neuroradiology, received congratulations from the European Society of Radiology that her paper was the one of the most downloaded papers for 2022 in the journal of European Radiology Experimental. The citation for her paper is: Vachha, B., Huang, S.Y. MRI with ultrahigh field strength and high-performance gradients: challenges and opportunities for clinical neuroimaging at 7 T and beyond. Eur Radiol Exp 5, 35 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-021-00216-2
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Praise for Dr. David Bindman | |
A recent message sent to radiology department chair Max Rosen praising David Bindman, MD, in the Cardio-Thoracic Imaging Division.
Dr. Bindman was able to help me provide my patient with additional needed care quickly and myself and my patient was very thankful.
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Connie Ge, UMass Chan medical student, presented her educational exhibit on Health Care Disparities in Breast Imaging, co-authored by Drs. Mehta and DeBenedectis, at RSNA's Annual Meeting in December.
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Kristopher Kelly ITAR Program Participant | |
Kristopher Kelly, MD, PGY 3 Radiology Resident, was accepted to participate in the Introduction to Academic Radiology program (ITAR) sponsored by three Radiology Associations; Radiology Society of North America (RSNA), Association of University Radiologists (AUR) and American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS). The program is held during RSNA's Annual Meeting in Chicago. The workshop takes place over four days.
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Dr. George (Chip) Watts, assistant professor and associate division chief in musculoskeletal imaging and intervention, and colleagues at the UMass Chan Medical School Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center https://www.umassmed.edu/wellstone/ were pleased to receive a $100k grant commitment from Solve FSHD https://solvefshd.com/, to be used in kick-starting the Wellstone Project 1, part of a larger NIH grant proposal to initiate a three-year longitudinal clinical study at four sites to identify quantitative, non-invasive, and low-cost clinical biomarkers of muscle disease progression in the setting of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).
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In Case You Missed it on Social Media | |
Radiology residents and faculty post events regularly on the Radiology Social Media accounts. In case you missed it, recent posts were a ski outing, journal club and holiday party. Follow UMass Radiology on the social media links below.
Additional Social Media Postings
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Holiday Gift - Donation to UMMHC Child Life Program
I am truly proud of my staff and wanted to share as I feel this encompasses who my staff genuinely are inside. For Christmas instead of gift cards and other “typical” gifts, they got me this gift." A donation to the UMass Memorial Health Child Life Program.
Adina Laprade, RDMS
Radiology Ultrasound Manager
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Thanksgiving Baskets for Girls Inc. Families | |
Radiology staff from three campuses; Memorial, University and Hahnemann, donated 16 boxes of Thanksgiving Cheer to Girls Inc. Each box contained all the thanksgiving dinner fixings for a family, including the turkey. What a blessing to be able to Give!!
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