Chair: Craig Walker, M.D., FACR (Fellow of the American College of Radiology)
Radiology department (faculty/staff): 79 total — 38 faculty; 24 residents; 2 fellows; 6 research technologists; 9 administrative staff employees (includes COM faculty at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center and UNMC Physicians)
Recent faculty additions:
Adam DeFoe, M.D. – July 2015
Specialty: Interventional Radiology
Medical Degree: University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, N.D.
Internship: University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Fargo, N.D.
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha
Fellowship: Interventional Radiology, UNMC Radiology Department
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
Mary Kay Drake, M.D. – December 2015
Specialty: Pediatric Radiology
Medical Degree: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Internship: Internal Medicine – University of Nebraska Medical Center
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology – University of Nebraska Medical Center
Fellowship: Musculoskeletal Radiology – University of Nebraska Medical Center
Fellowship: Pediatric Radiology – University of Nebraska Medical Center
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
Marcus Kirkpatrick, M.D. – July 2015
Specialty: Emergency Diagnostic Radiology & Musculoskeletal Radiology
Medical Degree: Cum Laude, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Residency: Orthopedic Surgery, Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, UNMC Radiology Department
Fellowship: Musculoskeletal Radiology, University Hospitals-Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
Patrick Millerd, M.D. – July 2015
Specialty: Abdominal Imaging & Breast Imaging
Medical Degree: Creighton School of Medicine, Omaha
Internship: Saint Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wis.
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, UNMC Radiology Department
Fellowship: Women’s and Body Imaging, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Ariz.
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
Richard Stemm, M.D. – January 2015
Specialty: Emergency Radiology & Musculoskeletal Radiology
Medical Degree: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Transitional Internship: University North Dakota, Fargo, N.D.
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, UNMC Radiology Department
Fellowship: Musculoskeletal Radiology, UNMC Radiology Department
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
Lonnie Vaughn, M.D. – joined May 2015
Medical Degree: Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha
Internship: Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Ariz.
Fellowship: Neuroradiology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
Anna Zajicek, M.D. – July 2015
Specialty: Musculoskeletal Imaging & Breast Imaging
Medical Degree: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Internship: Internal Medicine, UNMC Internal Medicine Department
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, UNMC Radiology Department
Fellowship: Musculoskeletal Radiology, UNMC Radiology Department
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
Justin Cramer, MD – July 2016
Specialty: Neuroradiology
Medical Degree: University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine (UNMC); Omaha, NE
Internship: Internal Medicine, UNMC Internal Medicine Department
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center; Salt Lake City
Fellowship: Neuroradiology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center; Salt Lake City
American Board of Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Certificate
New clinical sites:
Nebraska Medicine Radiology is proud to announce the opening of several new state-of-the-art imaging sites during the next year. These new sites are at Nebraska Medicine Village Pointe, Lauritzen Outpatient Center at 40th and Leavenworth streets and within the Fred & Pamela Buffet Cancer Center on our main campus.
All of these sites will be equipped with technologically advanced imaging equipment including patient friendly wide bore 1.5 and 3 Tesla MRI units and technologically advanced CT scanners capable of high resolution imaging with significant radiation dose reduction.
Magnetic resonance imaging at each location will offer a Sentient Suite patient experience which allows patients to personalize the MRI suite with themed videos, mood lighting and personal music during their MRI examination. These centers will provide greater opportunity for patient access across the Omaha metropolitan area.
In addition, the new technology will support expanded clinical research opportunities as well as medical student and resident training on state-of-the-art equipment. Nebraska Medicine Radiology is fully committed to customer service, substantive radiology research and the education and training of future radiologists and physicians.
Educational programs:
Our Diagnostic Radiology residency program remains fully accredited with 24 residents. We have maintained greater than a 98 percent first-time board pass rate over the last eight years. This year, our first-year class scored at the 97 percentile nationally as a class on the annual in-service training exam.
We have continued to expand our educational mission with increasing the number of lectures that are given outside the department to medical students, physician assistant students and nurse practitioners. We have even created a hands-on ultrasound skills experience within our Interventional Radiology section that is offered during the third-year medical student surgery clerkship.
Currently, we are preparing for the newly created Interventional Radiology residency program (IR/DR). This will be a stand-alone residency in which medical students will enter into through the National Residency Match Program (NRMP). Until now, IR only has been available as a fellowship following a diagnostic radiology residency.
Significant research grants/publications:
A total of $5.1 million of direct costs on federal grants were supported by the research efforts of department faculty in fiscal year 2015-2016. Three grants were awarded to department faculty in fiscal year 2015-16.
Three grants involved the research of Michael Boska, Ph.D.:
NanoART Manufacture, Delivery and Pharmacokinetics for Optimizing Drug Adherence, Program PI – Howard Gendelman, M.D.
This is an integrative cross approach translational and multi-investigator program grant seeking to develop nanoformulated antiretroviral drug therapy from the bench to the patient. Michael Boska: PI-Project 3, Molecular Imaging
Nebraska Center for Nanomedicine, Program PI — Tatiana Bronich, Ph.D.
This proposal seeks to develop an interdisciplinary Nanomedicine Center at UNMC. The focus of this proposal is to develop the means to best use devices of nanoscale size to improve outcomes for cancer, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases. Michael Boska: Imaging Core Director
Chronic HIV Infection and Aging in NeuroAIDS (CHAIN) Center, Program PI – Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D.
This is a center grant to provide administrative and core support for scientists investigating NeuroAIDS. Michael Boska: Imaging Core Director
In addition, 14 manuscripts were published or in press and four abstracts were presented during 2015-2016 involving works of the Radiology faculty including:
Publications
Bouts MJ, Westmoreland SV, de Crespigny AJ, Liu Y, Vangel M, Dijkhuizen RM, Wu O, D'Arceuil HE. Magnetic resonance imaging-based cerebral tissue classification reveals distinct spatiotemporal patterns of changes after stroke in non-human primates. BMC Neurosci. 16 : 91. 2015
Bade AN, Gorantla S, Dash PK, Makarov E, Sajja BR, Poluektova LY, Luo J, Gendelman HE, Boska MD, Liu Y. Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reflects Brain Pathology During Progressive HIV-1 Infection of Humanized Mice. Mol. Neurobiol. 2015
Bade AN, Zhou B, McMillan J, Narayanasamy P, Veerubhotla R, Gendelman HE, Boska MD, Liu Y. Potential of N-acetylated-para-aminosalicylic acid to accelerate manganese enhancement decline for long-term MEMRI in rodent brain. J. Neurosci. Methods. 25: 92-8. 2015
Sajja BR, Bade AN, Zhou B, Uberti MG, Gorantla S, Gendelman HE, Boska MD, Liu Y. Generation and Disease Model Relevance of a Manganese Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based NOD/scid-IL-2Rγ c (null) Mouse Brain Atlas. J Neuroimmune Pharmacol. 11: 133-41. 2016
Li T, Gendelman HE, Zhang G, Puligujja P, McMillan JM, Bronich TK, Edagwa B, Liu XM, Boska MD. Magnetic resonance imaging of folic acid-coated magnetite nanoparticles reflects tissue biodistribution of long-acting antiretroviral therapy. Int J Nanomedicine. 10: 3779-90. 2015
Padmashri R, Suresh A, Boska MD, Dunaevsky A. Motor-Skill Learning Is Dependent on Astrocytic Activity. Neural Plast. 2015: 938023. 2015
Ivanisevic J, Benton HP, Rinehart D, Epstein A, Kurczy ME, Boska MD, Gendelman HE, Siuzday G. An interactive cluster heat map to visualize and explore multidimensional metabolimic data. Metabolomics. 11:1029-1034. 2015
Cohoon KP, McBride J, Friese JL, McPhail IR. Retrievable inferior vena cava filters can be placed and removed with a high degree of success: Initial experience. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 86: 719-25. 2015
Beavers AJ, Stagner AM, Allbery SM, Lyden ER, Hejkal TW, Haney SB. MR detection of retinal hemorrhages: correlation with graded ophthalmologic exam. Pediatr Radiol. 45: 1363-71. 2015
Dilisio MF, May NR, Vincent SA, High RR, Walker CW, Manzer MN, Apker KA, Fehringer EV. The association of incomplete glenoid component seating and periprosthetic glenoid radiolucencies after total shoulder arthroplasty. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 25: 442-7. 2016
Hansen NJ. Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Abdominal Aorta. Radiology Clinics of North America (English). 2016 Jan; Vol. 54 (1): p. 35-54. USA
Hansen NJ. Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Abdominal Aorta. Radiol. Clin. North Am. 54: 35-54. 2016
Minamimoto R, Fayad L, Advani R, Vose J, Macapinlac H, Meza J, Hankins J, Mottaghy F, Juweid M, Quon A. Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Prospective Multicenter Comparison of Early Interim FLT PET/CT versus FDG PET/CT with IHP, EORTC, Deauville, and PERCIST Criteria for Early Therapeutic Monitoring. Radiology. 150689. 2016
Adapa P; White M; Keiper M; Zhang Y. Diffusion Tensor Tractography for Understanding Complex Brain Fiber Connectivity in Holoprosencephaly: A Unique Case Presentation. Neurographics. 2015 Sep; Vol. 5 (5): p. 192-196
Wang Y, Kumar S, Rachagani S, Sajja BR, Xie Y, Hang Y, Jain M, Li J, Boska MD, Batra SK, Oupický D. Polyplex-mediated inhibition of chemokine receptor CXCR4 and chromatin-remodeling enzyme NCOA3 impedes pancreatic cancer progression and metastasis. Biomaterials. 2016 May 27; 101:108-120.
Articles accepted for publication in scholarly journals
Vishwasrao HM; Master AM; Seo YG; Liu XM; Pothayee N; Zhou Z; Boska MD; Bronich TK; Davis RM; Riffle J; Sokolsky M; kabanov av. LHRH-Targeted Cisplatin-Loaded Magnetite Nanoclusters for Simultaneous MR Imaging and Chemotherapy of Ovarian Cancer. Chemistry of materials: a publication of the American Chemical Society. 2016; 0897-4756
Ivanisevic J; Stauch KL; Petrascheck M; Benton HP; Epstein AA; Fang M; Gorantla S; Tran M; Hoang L; Boska MD; Gendelman HE; fox hs; Siuzdak G. Metabolic Drift in the Aging Brain. Aging. 2016 Apr; 0002-0966
Kumar S; Kumar Y; Rachagani S; Sajja BR; Xie Y; Hang Y; Jain m; Boska MD; Batra sk; Oupicky D. Polyplex-mediated inhibition of chemokine receptor CXCR4 and chromatin-remodeling enzyme NCOA3 impedes pancreatic cancer progression and metastasis. Biomaterials. 2016 May; 0142-9612
Muinov LM; Oliveto J. Cystic Cervicitis, Case of the Quarter. Journal of computer assisted tomography. 2016 Jun; 0363-8715