Radiology

Manchester, Iowa-based Regional Medical Center has completed a major renovation of its radiology department, with the upgraded space opening in June. The renovation expanded the department’s diagnostic capacity with a state-of-the-art mammography suite, a dedicated bone density suite and two…

Radiology Partners has named Matt Peterson president of RP Clinical Services and Krishna Nallamshetty, MD, chief operating officer of RP Clinical Services, effective July 20. Mr. Peterson will oversee strategy and execution across the organization’s national clinical services business, according…

Madison, Wis.-based UW Health Kids has opened a dedicated pediatric interventional radiology suite at American Family Children’s Hospital. The suite is the first implementation in the world of GE HealthCare’s Allia Moveo image-guiding system for pediatric interventional radiology and the…

Pittsburgh-based UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have named Maureen Kohi, MD, chair of the Department of Radiology, effective Oct. 12. Dr. Kohi joins Pitt and UPMC from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where…

A second scan using prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography changed treatment plans for nearly half of patients with recurrent prostate cancer whose initial scan was negative, according to research published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear…

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has named Jordan Perchik, MD, director of the Human Imaging Core Facility, effective July 1. Dr. Perchik, an assistant professor in the department of radiology, will also serve as chair of the Radiology Data…

Dayton (Ohio) Children’s Hospital has launched an ophthalmology imaging solution that extends the health system’s enterprise imaging platform beyond radiology. The implementation gives clinicians a single point of access to ophthalmology images from multiple camera types within the same platform…

The District of Columbia has the highest concentration of diagnostic radiologists in the U.S., with 47.00 diagnostic radiologists per capita, according to a Becker’s analysis of state-level diagnostic radiologist counts and 2025 U.S. population estimates from KFF. The number of…

A surgical team at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health became the first in the U.S. to use intraoperative PET-CT imaging to successfully resect a breast cancer mass.  The procedure was led by Denise Garcia, MD, assistant professor of surgery in the…

Orlando, Fla.-based Women’s Center for Radiology is notifying patients of a data breach after unauthorized access to a portion of its computer network exposed personal and protected health information. The imaging provider said it discovered suspicious activity on April 29…