Faculty

Komal Shah, M.D. - Chair ad interim & Professor
Research Interests: Pituitary hypophysitis, adenoma, carcinoma, intra-operative MRI, skull base tumors, and thermal ablation for brain pathology

Amin Agarwal, M.D. - Professor

Salmaan Ahmed, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Thyroid nodule evaluation, thyroid cancer imaging, neck ultrasound and biopsy, and imaging of head and neck cancer

Heba Al Qudah, M.D. - Assistant Professor

Susana Calle, M.D. - Assistant Professor

Noah Chasen, M.D.  - Assistant Professor

Melissa Chen, M.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Advanced brain tumor imaging, head/neck imaging, and healthcare economics

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

Rami Eldaya, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Spine imaging. Interest in CSF leak and application of dynamic myelography for detection and establishing type of CSF leak. Spinal metastasis and primary spinal CNS tumors.

Nandita Guha-Thakurta, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Evaluation and investigation of brain, spine, and neck pathology

Maria Gule-Monroe, M.D. - Associate Professor
Research Interests: Anaplastic thyroid cancer, Pediatric thyroid cancer, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Jackson Hamilton, M.D. - Assistant Professor

Peter Kamel, M.D. - Assistant Professor

Diana Kaya, M.D. - Assistant Professor 

Alexander Khalaf, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Molecular imaging and its application in brain tumors and head and neck malignancies.

Shekhar Khanpara, M.D. - Assistant Professor

Vinodh Kumar, M.D. - 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. - 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
Research Interests: Head & Neck and Skull Base MR, CT, US imaging, Multimodality Image-guided Precision Diagnostic, Post Treatment Surveillance Diagnostics

Christie Lincoln, M.D. - Associate Professor

Sooyoung Martin, M.D. - Assistant Professor

Jennifer McCarty, M.D. - Associate Professor

Jacob Ormsby, 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

Donald Schomer, M.D. - Professor
Research Interests: Brain tumor imaging and healthcare economics

Fehime Eymen Ucisik, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Adult glioma imaging, post treatment skull baseimaging, gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent safety

Thinh Vu, M.D.- Professor
Research Interests: Evaluating localization of parathyroid adenomas by 4DCT and combination of SPECT-CT and 4DCT, ultrasound diagnosis of intrathyroidal parathyroid adenomas, and intraoperative ultrasound biopsy in the head and neck cancer patients