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Dear All,
Lots to celebrate in this issue of RadNews!
On Tuesday three UMass Radiology teams were recognized with Innovators of the Year Awards: The Overall Winning Idea: Increase CT Scan Throughput-University CT was won by the University CT scan team. Marlboro Hospital Radiology took home gold for their project: CT STAT Turn Around Time and Fitchburg Mammography clinched Silver for their Mammography Transformation Project.
On March 15 we completed one of our most successful Residency Matches in Diagnostic Radiology and Integrated Interventional/Diagnostic Radiology, and on April 1 we launched the first group of UMass Chan’s new core Radiology Clerkship in our beautiful new Radiology education lab on A level of the medical school.
UMMS Chan student Kylie Long presented her summer ‘23 research project at the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Fifteenth Research Poster Symposium for Residents, Fellows, and Medical Students; Alex Bankier hosted a podcast for RSNA as first author of the Fleischner Society’s influential “Glossary of Terms for Thoracic Imaging”; Janet Oluwoe was selected as a Society of Skeletal Radiology (SSR) Scholar, and research from the lab of Raúl Padrón and Roger Craig was featured on the cover of Nature.
It’s a pleasure to share these and many other departmental accomplishments with you.
Sincerely,
Max
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The Department of Radiology is pleased to announce the residency match of 2024 for residents starting in 2025 in Diagnositic Radiology and Interventional Radiology - Integrated residency programs! | |
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Training started recently for the radiology clinical leadership team and will continue with our modality staff for Trauma Informed Care. The training is an hour long, attended by Radiology Leadership to learn process improvement for patients with past traumatic experiences. It was an incredibly eye opening and informative training that we will now roll out to our respective modalities/departments.
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The Radiology Clerkship is a brand new mandatory rotation for third-year UMass Chan medical students, as part of the Explorations Phase of the new VISTA curriculum. The innovative and hands-on curriculum was developed over the course of 1.5 years by the Radiology Clerkship build team consisting of Ryan Tai, MD, the director of the Radiology Clerkship; Maria Barile, MD, the VISTA longitudinal biomedical director of imaging; Julia Rissmiller, MD; medical students Jack Hanna, Alli Holt, and Jay Patel; and radiology residents Christine Yao, MD and Joseph Jacob, MD. The clerkship is one week and occurs once a month.
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Congratulations to the CT team awarded innovator of the year for their project designed to increase Outpatient CT throughput at both Memorial and University Campuses. The team created an IV placement station for outpatients so that the patients no longer got the IVs when they were on the CT table. This also meant that they could bring patients in earlier from the waiting room.
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The multidisciplinary team optimized the process for requesting a stat CT exam at Marlboro by optimizing ordering practices, Radiologists work-list prioritization and Radiologist staffing. Starting at a baseline of only 30% of Stat CTs being read within two hours, the team has now implemented a new workflow in which 80-90% of stat CTs are now read within less than two hours.
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Raúl Padrón, PhD, professor of radiology; Debabrata Dutta, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in radiology; Roger Craig, PhD, professor of radiology; and Vu Nguyen, research associate in radiology at UMass Chan. published an article in Nature in November 2023, Cryo-EM structure of the human cardiac myosin filament. A recent article in UMass Chan News featured the team and with an overview of the article. | |
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Medical Student Kylie Long's abstract, Quantification of Non-Relative Value Unit (“non-RVU”) Generating Activities Performed by Academic Radiologists: Added Value and Excess Waste, has been accepted as an ePoster at the American College of Radiology (ACR) 2024 Annual Meeting. The poster was also presented recently at the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Fifteenth Research Poster Symposium for Residents, Fellows, and Medical Students being held in conjunction with the 2024 MMS Future Health Best Conference.
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Alexander Bankier, MD, PhD, Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging, participated in an RSNA podcast discussing the updated Fleischner glossary of terms for thoracic imaging.
The “Fleischner Glossary” is of pivotal importance for the thoracic radiology community, as it defines the use of terms and terminology in this field. The Glossary is also important for associated fields, such as pulmonology, thoracic pathology, thoracic surgery, and education. This is reflected by four editorials from these fields that have accompanied the publication of the Glossary. It is one of the most read and cited publications in thoracic imaging and serves clinical, educational, and research purposes. Since its online publication on February 27th, the Glossary has been downloaded over 28,000 times (as of this morning) and, with an Altmetric score of 265 (as of this morning) is in the 99th percentile of attention ranking in general biomedical research. The Glossary is also receiving vivid attention on social media around the globe and was featured, among others, in Aunt Minnie.
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Janet Oluwoe MD, second-year Diagnostic Radiology resident, was selected as a Society of Skeletal Radiology (SSR) Scholar. Janet is just one of 12 residents selected for this competitive, merit-based scholarship sponsored by the SSR.
Ryan Tai, MD presented at the 47th annual Society of Skeletal Radiology (SSR) conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ryan presented on behalf of a team, led by fourth-year medical student Jay Patel. Other co-authors of the project include radiology resident Nicolas Paez, musculoskeletal radiology fellow Debajyoti Saha, and musculoskeletal radiologists Ganesh Joshi and Elisabeth Garwood.
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A team from Radiology participated in a Build a Bed project along with other teams from UMass Chan. The event was part of the Doctor's Day celebration week at UMass Chan. The "Supporting Sprouts: Build a Bed Volunteer Event" was held at UMass Chan Medical School on Tuesday, 3/26/2024.
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Michael King, PhD, Professor in Radiology recently received this invitation from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a Member of the Radiation Therapeutics and Biology Study Section (RTB). Congratulations Mike!
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The Association of University Radiologists (AUR) held it's annual meeting in Boston, April 2-5. Faculty, residents, staff and medical students from UMass Chan radiology participated. UMass Chan medical student Annie Phan (rising 3rd year) presented work with collaborator Allison MacKenzie (rising 2rd year) and mentor Tejas Mehta, MD.
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Betty's project focused on finding ways to increase the patient volume at Health Alliance Hospital Mammography Department in Fitchburg Campus. The data I received shows that for the last 3.5 yrs. there has been an average of 28.71% utilization. We were able to get a 3D Mammography machine through a grant that was awarded. Our goal is to improve our utilization from 28.71 to at least 35% by the end of December 2023. When I started the QS program, I felt ill equipped and under experienced to be there. The time to work on the projects was hard to find but I was able to learn time management and utilizing the whole team to get the work done. The learning sessions were vital for my project | |
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My Quality Scholars project was on sharps injuries in the anatomy lab. The problem is UMass Chan medical students in the anatomy lab are significantly more likely to be injured by sharps than residents in a similar environment in the UMHC system. ~7.5% of UMass Chan medical students experience a (reportable) sharps injury (requiring treatment) in the anatomy lab compared to ~1.8% of residents who experience a scalpel injury in the UMHC medical centers during training, leading to physical injury and recovery time, lost study time, increased student health costs, and inappropriate sharps handling habits that carry into the clinical environment.
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My project looked at causes of delays in procedure start times for sedation Interventional Radiology procedures performed in our minor procedure OR suite at HealthAlliance Hospital, primarily focusing on the patient arriving late to their procedure. With mitigation, our team was able to reduce delays from an average of 28 minutes to 17 minutes. | |
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Dear Dr. Rosen,
A member of your group, Dr. Hao Lo, is among our top Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) reviewers for 2023. This designation is based on both number and quality of reviews completed this year. We truly appreciate this contribution to the literature that moves our specialty forward.
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Neurointerventional radiology hosted our second annual Cookie Swap on Friday, Dec 1st. After a successful first year and lots of positive feedback, we were excited to see more people participate this year which meant we had an even larger variety of cookies!
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