June 7, 2022
Todd Hazelton, MD, has been named chief of the Department of Radiology's Division of Thoracic Imaging. His first day in the role will be May 31, and he joins the department from the University of South Florida where he most recently served as chair of the Department of Radiology.
May 27, 2022
Shortage in the U.S. supply of contrast media used heavily in interventional radiology is driving changes in hospital practices. A group of Physicians led by Nicole Keefe, MD, Assistant Professor, Gloria Salazar, MD, Chief of Vascular-Interventional Radiology, and Maureen Kohi, MD, Chair of the Department of Radiology, say they adapted quickly and offered their strategy during the shortage.
May 26, 2022
Towards the end of April, a global shortage of iodinated contrast media began. UNC Radiology worked collaboratively with leaders from other departments to quickly conserve existing supplies, reduce waste, and triage patients to continue to provide clinical excellence.
December 1, 2021
Cephus Simmons graduated in 2012 with a Master’s in Radiologic Science from the Division of Radiologic Science within the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Allied Health Sciences. A 25-year career in the radiology field cultivated his affinity for innovative problem-solving, leading to his most recent endeavor - the launch of SealCath and a shift to full-time business owner.
November 16, 2021
UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to name Carolina Guimaraes, MD, as the new Chief of Pediatric Radiology. Additionally, Lane Donnelly, MD, and spouse of Dr. Guimaraes, will also be joining the UNC School of Medicine as Executive Medical Director of Pediatric Population Health and Quality for UNC Health. He will also serve as Director of UNC Children’s Quality. Drs. Guimaraes and Donnelly will join us from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine.
October 27, 2021
Patty Saponaro, MS, MBA, Associate Chair for Administration in the Department of Radiation Oncology, will step down from her role in April 2022.
October 20, 2021
UNC Department of Radiology Chair and Ernest H. Wood Distinguished Professor Maureen P. Kohi, MD, is the latest highly regarded interventional radiologist to be profiled in Interventional News, a major online news source for IR and related fields.
September 1, 2021
Register for our annual IHQI Symposium to celebrate the hard work and success of our Improvement Scholars. The Symposium will feature presentations from six clinician-led improvement initiatives.
July 20, 2021
UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to name Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR, as the department’s next Division Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (VIR). Selected from a competitive pool of candidates nationwide, Dr. Salazar will begin leading our VIR division as an Associate Professor of Radiology in October 2021.
May 12, 2021
In late 2020, UNC Global Radiology addressed a health equity crisis in North Carolina using a model of community health partnership applied successfully in Kenya and Malawi. The COVID-19 pandemic has perpetuated a concerning trend of at-risk patients foregoing preventive healthcare across the U.S. In response, the UNC Department of Radiology is addressing local women’s health care imaging inequities through a global health lens.
February 25, 2021
UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to announce Mauricio Castillo, MD, FACR, has been named the first Matthew A. Mauro MD Distinguished Professor of Radiology. Approved by the University’s Board of Trustees in January 2021, Castillo’s appointment culminates UNC Radiology’s five-year campaign toward endowing and selecting a highly esteemed faculty member with the field and institutional expertise to advance UNC Radiology’s tripartite mission of advancing patient care, education and research.
January 28, 2021
Pew-Thian Yap, PhD, associate professor of Radiology and director of the UNC Image Analysis Group, is the senior author of a study published in Nature Machine Intelligence demonstrating effective use of an Retrospective Artefact Correction (RAC) neural network learned with unpaired data to disentangle and remove unwanted image artifacts.