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.
December 2, 2020
UNC Department of Radiology is pleased to announce its former Chair Matthew A. Mauro, MD, FACR, FSIR, FAHA, has been named Chair of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors. Dr. Mauro’s selection was announced Tuesday, December 1, at the RSNA’s annual meeting (virtual).
August 27, 2020
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July 16, 2020
The UNC Department of Radiology collaborates with the University of Nairobi (UoN) in Kenya. As a result of this partnership, UoN recently established the nation’s first interventional radiology fellowship, which will intake its inaugural class of Kenyan trainees later this year.
July 8, 2020
UNC's Department of Radiology offers educational track for residents with interest in global health. Katrina McGinty, MD, clinical assistant professor in the UNC Department of Radiology, initiated the creation and development of a Global Health Leadership Pathway for diagnostic and interventional radiology residents.
April 16, 2020
UNC Department of Radiology recognizes Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Research Program director Zibo Li, PhD, for receiving National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering funding to establish radioabeling methodology for modifying biologically active molecules and drugs in novel PET agent preparation.
January 3, 2019
Take a look at some Department of Radiology 4th Quarter highlights from October – December 2018.