Faculty
Max Wintermark, M.D. - Chair
Donald Schomer, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Brain tumor imaging and healthcare economics
Salmaan Ahmed, M.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Thyroid nodule evaluation, thyroid cancer imaging, neck ultrasound and biopsy, and imaging of head and neck cancer
Susana Calle, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Melissa Chen, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Advanced brain tumor imaging, head/neck imaging, and healthcare economics
T. Linda Chi, M.D. - Clinical Professor
Research Interests: Advanced brain tumor imaging and orbital imaging, vascular diseases, MR and CT imaging quality improvement
Jeanie Choi, M.D. - Associate Professor
J. Matthew Debnam, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Ultrasound, CT and MR imaging of the brain, spine and the head and neck, including orbits
Lawrence Ginsberg, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: My research interests center on imaging following treatment of head and neck cancer, including efficacy, diagnosis of recurrences, and treatment-related complications. I am also interested in imaging of perineural tumor spread, and pitfalls in the imaging of head and neck malignancy.
Nandita Guha-Thakurta, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Evaluation and investigation of brain, spine, and neck pathology
Jason Johnson, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: PET/CT, advanced CT applications, and translational MRI research
Diana Kaya, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Vinodh Kumar, M.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Pre-operative and intra-operative brain tumor mapping, research related to head and neck tumor imaging
Michael Kwon, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Utilizing ultrasound for early detection of primary oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and lymph node metastasis in patients who have been exposed to human papilloma virus (HPV 16 and 18), and utilizing ultrasound for detecting intra-thyroid parathyroid adenoma
Kim Learned, M.D. - Associate Professor
Dawid Schellingerhout, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Molecular imaging of novel gene and cell based therapies, particularly for central nervous system (CNS) conditions, non-invasive mapping of therapeutic gene delivery, assessment of therapeutic gene expression by imaging, pharmacological manipulation of gene therapy vector distribution, focused ultrasound for the disruption of the blood brain barrier, and assessment of PET agents for the delineation of brain tumors
Komal Shah, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Pituitary hypophysitis, adenoma, carcinoma, intra-operative MRI, skull base tumors, and thermal ablation for brain pathology
Thinh Vu, M.D.- Associate Professor
Research Interests: Evaluating localization of parathyroid adenomas by 4DCT and combination of SPECT-CT and 4DCT, ultrasound diagnosis of intrathyroiddal parathyroid adenomas, and intraoperative ultrasound biopsy in the head and neck cancer patients