From department chairs to division chiefs, here are 10 recent appointments in the field of radiology:
- New York City-based Columbia University appointed Lyndon Luk, MD, as chief of the division of abdominal imaging for the department of radiology at the university’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
- Cincinnati Children’s appointed Andrew Trout, MD, as radiologist in chief.
- Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center appointed Muneeb Ahmed, MD, as division chief of cancer radiology.
- Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center appointed Rifat Wahab, DO, as the director of breast imaging for its community radiology section, and Eric Wallace, MD, as first vice chair of community radiology.
- Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health named Charles Ray, MD, PhD, as interim chair of the department of radiology and imaging sciences for the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine.
- Stanford (Calif.) Medicine appointed Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD, as chair of its radiology department.
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham appointed Mahmud Mossa-Basha, MD, as department of radiology chair.
- Charlottesville-based University of Virginia School of Medicine appointed diagnostic radiologist Colin Derdeyn, MD, as interim dean.
- Lumexa Imaging — formerly known as U.S. Radiology Specialists — tapped Russell Stewart, MD, as chief medical officer.
- Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System named Christopher Whitlow, MD, PhD, as systemwide radiologist-in-chief and Yale New Haven Hospital’s chief of radiology.
- New York City-based Columbia University appointed Jasnit Makkar, MD, as chief of its division of emergency radiology.
- Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine appointed Tarek Hanna, MD, as chief of the diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine clinical service.
- New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health appointed Daniel Walz, MD, as chair of radiology at New York City-based Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital.
- Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center named Eric Wallace, MD, vice chair of community radiology.
