Investigators

Abdominal Imaging

• Brian Herts, MD, Head
• Mark Baker, MD
• Christopher Coppa, MD
• David Einstein, MD
• Namita Gandhi, MD
• Andrea Magen, MD
• Charles O'Malley, MD
• Erick Remer, MD
• Shetal Shah, MD
• Noushin Vahdat, MD
• Joseph Veneiro, MD

Cardiovascular Imaging

• Scott Flamm, MD, Head
• Michael Bolen, MD
• Ronan Curtin, MD
• Milind Desai, MD
• Sandra Halliburton, PhD
• Paul Schoenhagen, MD
• Randy Setser, DSc

Imaging Sciences

• Micheal Phillips, MD, Head
• Erik Beall, PhD
• Pallab Bhattacharyya, PhD
• Minyi Li, PhD
• Mark Lowe, PhD
• Ken Sakaie, PhD
• Erika Schneider, PhD
• Mark Smith, PhD

Informatics

• David Piraino, MD, Head
• Robert Cecil, PhD

Interventional Radiology

• Mark Sands, MD, Head
• Michael Geisinger, MD
• Jeremy Handel, MD
• Abe Levitin, MD
• Gordon McClennan, MD
• Eunice Moon, MD
• James Newman, MD
• Gregory Pierce, MD
• James Spain, MD
• Weiping Wang, MD

Mammography

• Alice Rim, MD, Head
• Mela Chellman-Jeffers, MD
• Christine Quinn, MD
• Jana Rice, MD
• Eric Schreiber, MD
• Joshua Polster, MD
• Brad Richmond, MD
• Naveen Subhas, MD
• Murali Sundaram, MD
• Carl Winalski, MD

Neuroradiology

• Thomas Masaryk, MD, Department Chair
• Paul Ruggieri, MD, Head, Neuro and MRI
• Carolyn VanDyke, MD

Nuclear Medicine

• Manuel Cerqueira, MD, Chairman
• Richard Brunken, MD
• Frank Difilippo, PhD
• Aniruddha Doke, PhD
• Steve Shih-Lin Huang, MD, PhD
• Don Neumann, MD, PhD
• Gopal Saha, PhD
• Sankaran Shrikanthan, MD
• Shyam Srinivas, MD, PhD
• Guiyun Wu, MD

Pediatric Imaging

• Janet Reid, MD, Head
• Pinar Karakas, MD
• Stuart Morrison, MD
• Susan O'Malley, MD
• Ellen Park, MD
• Sunny Pitt, MD

Thoracic Imaging

• Moulay Meziane, MD, Head
• Ruffin Graham, MD
• Jeffrey Kanne, MD
• Tan-Lucien Mohammed, MD
• Barbara Risius, MD

Imaging Residents

• Tan-Lucien Mohammed, MD
• Erik Beall, PhD, Project Staff, Imaging Institute.
  Research Interests: Dr. Beall is interested in physiologic noise artifact in functional MRI and the measurement of functional connectivity between brain regions.
• Pallab K Bhattacharyya, PhD, Project Staff, Imaging Institute.
  Research Interests: Dr. Bhattacharyya is primarily interested in measuring an important neuroinhibitory transmitter GABA (Gamma Amino Butyric Acid) in cerebral motor cortex, and to determine the difference in cortical GABA level between multiple sclerosis patients and control population. He is also interested in fMRI research involving multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease patients.
• Richard C. Brunken, MDFACC, FAHA, Staff, Director of Molecular Cardiac Imaging and a Staff Cardiologist in the Department of Nuclear Medicine.
  Research Interests: Dr. Brunken specializes in nuclear cardiology and the assessment of myocardial viability using noninvasive imaging techniques.
• Manuel D. Cerqueira, MD, Staff, Chairman, Department of Nuclear Medicine.
  Research Interests: Dr. Cerquiera's major research efforts have focused on measuring the effects of various treatments for acute myocardial infarction, the development of new perfusion and thrombus imaging agents and protocols and the safety of pharmacologic stress testing.
• William J. Davros, PhD, ABMP(D), Staff, Section Head of the Medical Physics Section.
  Research Interests: Dr. Davros' areas of interest include CT, Ultrasound, 3D imaging and New Imaging Technologies.
• Frank P. DiFilippo, PhD, Staff, Director of Nuclear Imaging Physics, Department of Nuclear Medicine.
  Research Interests: Dr. DiFillioppo oversees technical matters in the department including PET, SPECT, and hybrid imaging (PET-CT and SPECT-CT). Dr. DiFilippo's current research interests include image quality optimization, performance characterization, multi-pinhole collimation, and high-resolution imaging of small animals.
• Scott D. Flamm, MD, Staff, Section Head of Cardiovascular Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Flamm's research focuses on the use of MRI in the assessment of myocardial ischemia and viability, CT in the assessment of acute coronary syndromes and radiation dose reduction, rapid imaging techniques in MRI through parallel imaging, renovascular disease, and congenital heart disease.
• Sandra Halliburton, PhD, Staff Scientist, Section of Cardiovascular Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Halliburton's primary areas of CT research include radiation safety, contrast agent enhancement, coronary atherosclerotic plaque characterization, and coronary calcium scoring.
• Mingyi Li, PhD, Project Staff, Direct of Scientific Computing, Section of Imaging Sciences.
  Research Interests: Dr. Li's areas of interest are medical image processing and analysis, application of computer engineering, mathematics and statistics in MRI research.
• Mark J. Lowe, PhD, Staff, Director of High Field MRI, Section of Imaging Sciences.
  Research Interests: Dr. Lowe's research interests are functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging and functional connectivity of the human brain.
• Thomas J. Masaryk, MD, Department Chair, Staff, Neuroradiologist.
  Research Interests: Dr. Masaryk's research interests are in the development of new technologies for interventional neuroradiology including new stant and coil technologies. Additionally, Dr. Masaryk is interested in the development of flat-panel fluoroscopy technology for use in interventional neuroradiology procedures.
• Moulay Meziane, MD, Staff, Section Head of Thoracic Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Meziane’s interest is in computer- aided detection in Thoracic Imaging for early lung detection of lung cancer.
• Eunice Moon, MD, Staff Interventionalist, Section of Interventional Radiology.
  Research Interests: Dr. Moon's areas of interest are uterine artery embolization, varicose vein treatment, RF ablation, and hepatobiliary treatment.
• Micheal Phillips, MD, Vice Chairman, Research and Academic Affairs, Staff Neuroradiologist. 
  Research Interests: Dr. Phillips research interests are in the application of functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging and neurodegenerative diseases, primarily Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis.
• Gregory Pierce, MD, Staff Interventionalist, Section of Interventional Radiology.
  Research Interests: Dr. Pierce's areas of special interest and research are peripheral vascular interventions and catheter-directed thrombolysis, hepatovascular interventions and endovenous interventions.
• Joshua Polster, MD, Staff Radiologist, Section of Musculoskeletal Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Polster's research interests include sports medicine, inflammatory arthropathies, device development, imaging of articular cartilage and application of CT to the musculoskeletal system.
• Alice Rim, MD, Staff Radiologists,  Head - Section of Breast Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Rim's research interests are in the application of new technologies and breast imaging. Dr. Rim is the principal investigator for a high risk screening with breast MRI trial and "Computed Tomography Laser Mammography (CTLM) Breast-Imaging Device Model 1020".
• Paul Ruggieri, MD, Staff Neuroradiologist, Head of Neuroradiology and MRI.
  Research Interests: Dr. Ruggieri's areas of interest are pediatric neuroradiology, epilepsy, vascular imaging, MR spectroscopy and other advanced MR techniques.
• Ken Sakaie, PhD, Project Staff , Section of Imaging Sciences.
  Research Interests: Dr. Sakaie's principal research interest is in diffusion tensor imaging with MRI. Dr. Sakaie is developing methods for improved white matter assessment and fiber tracking in the human brain. Such methods include inference of fiber orientations in the presence of crossing fibers and probabilistic fiber tracking.
• Paul Schoenhagen, MD, FAHA, Staff Radiologist, Cardiovascular Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Schoenhagen's areas of interest are atherosclerosis imaging, intravascular ultrasound, and cardiovascular computed tomography.
• Randolph Setser, DSc, Staff Cardiac Imaging Scientist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Setser specializes in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), image fusion, image post-processing and cardiac mechanics.
• Allison Smith, MD, Staff Neuroradiologist, Imaging Institute.
  Research Interests: Dr. Smith's areas of interest are ENT imaging, neuronal migration disorders, and brain tumors.
• Srikanth Sola, MD, FAHA, Staff Cardiologist, Section of Imaging, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.
  Research Interests: Dr. Sola's research focuses on the use of cardiac CT to improve outcomes in cardiac surgery, delayed enhancement techniques in CT and MRI, and advanced imaging of atherosclerotic plaque.
• Shyam M. Srinivas, MD, PhD, Associate Staff, Department of Nuclear Medicine.
  Research Interests: Dr. Srinivas' major research interests are to continue to explore the potential benefits of hypoxia imaging both in cardiac and oncologic applications. Dr. Srinivas has interests in using combined PET/CT imaging to guide radiation therapy planning, as well as development of new novel radiotracers. With his engineering background, he also has a keen interest for instrumentation and device development and has helped validate the clinical use of a prototype dedicated breast PET scanner.
• Todd Stultz, MD, Staff Neuroradiologist, Imaging Institute.
  Research Interests: Dr. Stultz interests are head & neck imaging, imaging of sinus disease, complex reformatting of CT & MRI images for pre-implant surgical planning, imaging of surgical complications, workflow efficiency issues, and structured reporting.
• Andrew L. Tievsky, MD, Staff Neuroradiologist, Imaging Institute.
  Research Interests: Dr. Tievsky's areas of special expertise and research interests are clinical applications of diffusion MRI including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), perfusion MRI, BOLD cortical activation mapping ( functional MRI), and advanced MRI and CT techniques, stroke, and brain tumor imaging.
• Carl Winalski, MD, Staff Radiologist, Section of Musculoskeletal Imaging.
  Research Interests: Dr. Winalski's areas of interest are imaging of articular cartilage and articular cartilage repair and MR contrast agents for imaging of articular cartilage.
• Guiyun Wu, MD, Associate Staff, Department of Nuclear Medicine.
  Research Interests: Dr. Wu's areas of interest are PET and SPECT imaging in the seizure localization of epilepsy surgery, early differential diagnosis of dementia like Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia using FDG-PET, SPECT, PET and SPECT imaging for cerebral vascular diseases, new tracer development for functional neuroimaging. Other areas of interests include new applications of PET-CT and SPECT-CT imaging in oncology imaging.