Dear All,
I hope that everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and had some time to relax and enjoy family and friends. After an “optimistic” summer we are all now continuing to face the varied impacts of COVID on our personal and work “lives” with both recurrent and new challenges. While none of us knows exactly what the next few months will unfold, I am confident that our department is well positioned to meet these challenges.
This month’s newsletter celebrates our dedication to quality and safety with the exemplary efforts that Thea Nolan showed recognizing, researching, and pursing a problem that she identified with implantable ports - which lead to a national recall, our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with Ryan Tai’s selection to participate in the Association of University Radiologists’ IDEA Scholars Program, our commitment to our community with further improvements in our lung screening program, our commitment to innovation and teamwork with the “go-live” of our multidisciplinary Coronary CTA service and the recognition of David Gerson and Hao Lo’s collaborative research efforts in coronary imaging with cardiology by winning one of this year’s PACE Prizes, our commitment to education by Carolynn DeBenedectis’ semifinalist recognition by AuntMinnie’s “Most Effective Radiology Educator” nomination, and our commitment to our department’s continued growth and evolution with the addition of eight new faculty, four of who were our own trainees.
Please take a few minutes to read about all of these accomplishments and accept my thanks for all your extraordinary efforts.
Best.
Max
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Thea Nolan Honored with Josie King Hero Award
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Thea Nolan, Physician Assistant from Interventional Radiology Services, has been named this quarter’s Medical Center Josie King Hero Award recipient. The award was presented to Thea at the Medical Center Leader Town Hall on Wednesday, September 1, by Medical Center President Michael Gustafson, MD.
Thea spoke up and escalated a concern she had with patients who had implantable ports experiencing leakage. This escalation led to an investigation and discovery of entity-wide issues with ports of a certain lot number.
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Lung Cancer Screening Centralized
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Effective October 4, 2021, the CT Lung Cancer Screening Program of the UMass Memorial Health system was centralized. The previously three individual programs at University/Memorial, Health Alliance/Clinton, and Marlboro are now run as a single systemwide program. Administration and patient management are based at the University Hospital. Patients, however, will continue to be scheduled for CT examinations at all sites of the system.
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Ryan Tai Chosen for AUR IDEA Scholars Program
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Dr. Ryan Tai was selected as one of 24 candidates to participate in the Association of University Radiologists'(AUR) Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Allyship ( IDEA) Scholars Program. The program is dedicated to making a significant and long-lasting impact in the lives of patients, teaching programs and departments for years to come.
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Go-Live Coronary CTA Service
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David Gerson, MD was pleased to announce the Go-Live for the Coronary CTA service for patients in the ED/CDU starting Monday, September 20, 2021. The goal of this program is to improve both patient care and patient throughput in the ED and the CDU. This is the result of significant effort of our multidisciplinary committee comprised of numerous individuals in Radiology, Cardiology, and Emergency Medicine.
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Residents Inducted Into AOA Honor Society
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Congratulations to radiology residents Yara Younan, MD (IR/DR) Efaza Siddiqui, MD (DR) and Tina Shiang, MD for being inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Drs. Younan and Siddiqui were inducted on October 20, 2021 and Dr. Shiang's induction was June 2, 2021!
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David Gerson and Hao Lo PACE Award Winners
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The 2020-2021 Fourth Annual Prize for Academic Collaboration and Excellence (PACE) winners were announced recently. Two radiology physicians, David S. Gerson, MD and Hao S. Lo, MD, MBA are members of one of the winning collaboration teams.
Application of A Novel CT Angiographic Method to Measure Myocardial Blood Flow in Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Arteries
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Dr. DeBenedectis Semi-Finalist "Most Effective Radiology Educator"
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Congratulations to Dr. Carolynn DeBenedectis for her nomination as a semi-finalist for “Most Effective Radiology Educator” in the US by @ AuntMinnie.com.
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Welcome New Radiology Physicians
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We welcome new faculty to the Radiology team, Eileen Delaney, MD, Shervin Kamalian, MD, MMSc, Nicholas Martin, MD, Tejas S. Mehta, MD, PhD, Alex Pavidapha, MD, David Radcliffe, MD, Sughra Raza, MD and Evan Ruppell, DO. The new team members positions are in breast imaging, emergency radiology, interventional radiology, neuroradiology, oncologic & molecular imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging! We also welcome new Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mario Silva, MD, PhD.
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Department of Radiology | UMass Chan Medical School & UMass Memorial Health
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