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Boroff-Forman Lecture: Physicians Must Lead Health Care’s Transformation
For Kate Goodrich, MD, MHS, the firsthand knowledge she has of the health care system as a practicing clinician has been vital to her career in the federal government, where she is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
5 Feb 2020
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Gigi Galiana offers Pro Tip to Young Scientists in Aperture exhibit
Galiana and the other women featured in the exhibit were asked to provide a statement about advice they would offer their younger self, what they would say to inspire the next generation of women, and what led them to choose their career path.
23 Jan 2020
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Yale Radiologists are First in the State to Use Weight-bearing CT Scanner
Yale New Haven Hospital became the first facility in Connecticut to install a weight-bearing CT scanner for limb imaging in orthopedic patients.
2 Jan 2020
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Brain Scans, Aided by Artificial Intelligence, Reveal as Much About Us as Our DNA, Evan Morris Says.
“Brain scans, aided by artificial intelligence, reveal as much about us as our DNA,” Evan Morris recently wrote in an op-ed in Wired magazine. “Grappling with their ethical implications is vital to scientific integrity.”
20 Dec 2019
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Yale’s Tanzania Interventional Radiology Initiative Approved for MSc Program
Two years after Frank Minja, MD, initiated an Interventional Radiology program in Tanzania, East Africa, a new model for medical outreach missions is taking shape.
18 Dec 2019
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Physicians of Worldwide Impact
Three radiologists from Yale School of Medicine are dedicated to improving patient care in Africa and Asia
16 Dec 2019
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Dvornek's Machine Learning Approaches Earn Top Prizes at International Conference
Nicha Dvornek, PhD, used multi-task learning to design a novel recurrent neural network-based model that learned to discriminate between data classes.
21 Nov 2019
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Silva Lends Expertise to Global Pediatric Radiology Service
In those parts of the world that are short of qualified medical staff, radiologists, and especially pediatric radiologists, are rare. For four years, Cicero Silva, MD, chief of pediatric imaging, led an outreach team of pediatric radiologists that provided pro-bono, second-opinion teleradiology services to referring physicians in Africa and Asia.
26 Sep 2019
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Yale Radiology and Psychiatry Researchers Join with Penn Medicine to Create a New Center to Study Opioid Use Disorders
Opioid use disorder has reached epidemic levels in the United States. Over the last two decades, opioid-related overdose deaths increased by more than 50 percent, with nearly 50,000 in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers from Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Penn Medicine, which comprises the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have created a new center that focuses on neuroimaging to improve our understanding of opioid use disorders and find new treatments.
13 Sep 2019
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YNHH Impresses Russian Visitor in Ways Big and Small
From the skill of its MR technicians, to the colorful images brightening a pediatric imaging wall, Yale New Haven Hospital made a big impression on a visiting Russian radiologist this summer.
28 Aug 2019
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Department Provides Launching Platform for YSM Grad
Research opportunities in radiology & biomedical imaging provided a launching platform for Mansur Ghani, MD, who graduated from Yale School of Medicine in May.
16 Aug 2019
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Improving Breast Cancer Outcomes for African Women
For eight days in early June, Melissa Durand, MD, volunteered at the second-largest teaching hospital in Ghana, West Africa. Decades earlier, mammography technologist Judith Abaidoo of Yale New Haven Hospital’s Shoreline Medical Center became one of the first women to perform mammograms in Ghana, where the five-year breast cancer survival rate is estimated to be only 25%.
31 Jul 2019
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Emergency Radiology Celebrates 20 Years
Since 1999, Jamal Bokhari has worked 182-183 shifts every year, meticulously mapping his schedule to be on site for as many as three weeks in a row, without a break. Now, on the 20th anniversary of the attending-led coverage of emergency radiology at YSM, Bokhari has recognized that the section he built and helped sustain no longer needs him to be working quite as many overnight hours.
22 Jul 2019
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A Cappella Singer Is at Home on Stage and in the Lab
Neha Bhatt, ’20, is spending her summer in the department’s Interventional Oncology (IO) Research Lab. A pre-med student, she is a student of James Duncan, PhD, the Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and a professor of biomedical engineering. Come August, Bhatt plans to take a year off from Yale to travel the world, performing for the storied a cappella group the Whiffenpoofs.
3 Jul 2019
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‘A Scientist of Worldwide Impact’ – Todd Constable Honored by His Alma Mater
While it’s always an honor to be celebrated for one’s achievements by one’s peers, it’s especially meaningful to be recognized by the people who knew you when you were just starting your scientific studies
31 May 2019
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Boroff-Forman Lecture Tackles a Persistent National Problem
During the Boroff-Forman lecture on May 23, Esther Choo discussed the silent and persistent problem of sexual harassment in healthcare.
28 May 2019
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A How-to for Improving Patient Satisfaction
How do I prep for my test? Where do I park? How long will my exam take? These are some of the questions patients ask before their appointments. And now they have the answers.
17 May 2019
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2019 Honors & Achievements
From being the first physicians in Connecticut to perform vital procedures, to traveling the world in service to their profession, faculty from the Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine began 2019 by showing what it means to lead.
9 May 2019
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Yale Researchers Propose a New Model for Neuroimaging Studies
For decades, two of the most precise imaging methods used to study the human brain, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), have identified localized brain responses to sensory stimulation, such as touch, vision and smell.
24 Apr 2019
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Interventional Radiologists Perez Lozada and Marino Create First Endovascular Fistula in Connecticut
Juan Carlos Perez Lozada, MD, and Angelo G. Marino, DO, are the first physicians to perform a minimally invasive procedure to create an AV fistula in Connecticut. The procedure will give patients with kidney failure better medical results and quality of life while they undergo dialysis, Perez Lozada and Marino said.
16 Apr 2019