Congratulations to Lori A. Deitte, M.D., F.A.C.R., (Vice Chair of Education and Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences) on her Florida Radiological Society Gold Medal Award. A former University of Florida Professor, Abdominal Imaging, Dr. Deitte was presented with the Gold Medal Award on Saturday, July 18 at the Florida Radiological Society’s Annual Meeting. Dr. Deitte was recognized for outstanding meritorious achievements and contributions that have affected Radiology in the state of Florida.  Dr.

Jeremy J. Kaye, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, died July 4 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was 75. Dr. Kaye came to Vanderbilt in 1976 when he was recruited to direct Musculoskeletal Radiology. He was intimately involved in the design and relocation of the department from Medical Center North to Vanderbilt University Hospital upon the facility’s opening in September 1980.

The hippocampus – a brain region involved in learning and memory – is abnormal in schizophrenia. Neuroimaging studies offer evidence of altered hippocampal activity, but mostly rely on a single hemodynamic parameter, for example blood volume or blood flow, and report mixed results.

R01. One letter and two numbers, often considered the holy grail of grant funding. It is the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) original grant mechanism, typically offering $1 million or more over five years, with the possibility of competitive renewal for years afterward. But it can take years of research and reams of data to achieve one, and that time is getting even longer.

The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences are thrilled to welcome Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR as the newly appointed Section Chief of Interventional Radiology effective November 1, 2015. A strong clinician and teacher, Banovac comes to us from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.  

Our Faculty Spotlight section includes an interview with Dr. Dan Brown, Director of Interventional Oncology, a subspecialty within Interventional Radiology (IR).When we surveyed current 4th-year students, asking them which specialties they wish they had obtained more exposure to during medical school, the most popular answers were Interventional Radiology (IR) and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). We are therefore very grateful that Dr.

During the Crossroads of Radiology, ACR 2015™ meeting in Washington DC this week, Dr. Marta Hernanz-Schulman, our Pediatric Section Chief and Medical Director of Diagnostic Imaging at the MCJCHV, had the opportunity to meet former United States Secretary of State and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Colin L.

Twenty-eight retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony May 8, when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Two of them were from the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences.

This month's journal club will revisit ablation of osteoid osteomas.  It's been about 13 years since RFA became the standard of care for treatment of these benign lesions, but since then, several other forms of ablation have been tried, all of which are now available at Vanderbilt. It's good practice to stay abreast of the current trends and to review our current protocol.

Lisa Kachnic, M.D., professor and chair of Radiation Oncology and associate director of Multidisciplinary Cancer Research at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and chief of Radiation Oncology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named the new professor and chair of the Vanderbilt Department of Radiation Oncology. She will join the faculty on Sept. 21.