Radiology

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…

The FDA has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to two generative AI platforms designed to draft radiology reports from chest X-rays, signaling growing federal recognition of AI as a tool to address the radiologist shortage. Aidoc, a clinical AI company supporting…

Oklahoma City-based OU Health has named Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD, clinical service chief of radiology. Dr. Villanueva-Meyer was also appointed chair of the department of radiological sciences at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, according to a June 23 news…

UPMC Williamsport (Pa.) has completed a newly renovated and relocated interventional radiology suite backed by an investment of more than $8 million, according to a June 23 report from The Standard-Journal. The upgraded suite includes two interventional radiology labs equipped…