Category: News

UW Radiology Shines at RSNA

The UW Department of Radiology distinguished itself at the 2010 RSNA Conference, winning over 20 prestigious awards and prizes! At the end November, our doctors joined over 60,000 international medical and science professionals at the RSNA’s 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago. The conference hosted 4,200 scientific papers, education exhibits and posters, including …

Recent Faculty Additions

Please help us welcome our recent faculty additions: Allison Grayev, MD Neuroradiology Section Medical School: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Residency: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Fellowship: University of Wisconsin – Madison Dr. Allison Grayev is an Assistant Professor of Radiology in the Neuroradiology section. She joined the faculty in August …

NIH-NCI Awards $1.2M to Dr. Brace for Ablation Research

Chris Brace, PhD, Assistant Professor in Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, was awarded approximately $1.2M by the NIH-NCI for his R01 proposal “Periodic Contrast-Enhanced CT With HYPR Reconstruction For Ablation Monitoring.” Adoption of thermal ablation technologies may suffer without a reliable method to observe ablation zone growth. This project aims to develop an ablation monitoring technique using …

Hinshaw, Reeder Receive Promotions

Dr. J. Louis Hinshaw Dr. Scott B. Reeder We are pleased to announce that two of our faculty have been promoted to Associate Professor during this year’s annual faculty review and promotion process. Please join us in congratulating Dr. J. Louis Hinshaw, who was promoted to Associate Professor (CHS) with a unanimous vote of the University …

UW Abdominal Imaging Division Rocks the SGR/SUR

The Abdominal Imaging Division was well represented at this year’s Abdominal Radiology Course for Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology and Society of Uroradiology. Drs. Myron Pozniak, Elizabeth Sadowski , David Kim, Perry Pickhardt, J. Louis Hinshaw, Jessica Robbins, Fred T. Lee, Jr., and Meg Lubner (along with several residents including: Drs. Kendra Hain, Stacey O’Connor, and Meghan Hanson) were responsible for 2 plenary session presentations, 5 scientific presentations, …

$1.2M NIH Grant Awarded for Microwave Ablation for Targeted Cancer Therapy

We are extremely pleased to announce that Chris Brace PhD, Assistant Professor in Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, was awarded approximately $1.2M by the NIH-NCI for his R01 proposal “Optimizing microwave ablation techniques for targeted cancer therapy.” The objective of this project is to optimize percutaneous microwave ablation technologies. Thermal tumor ablation is an emerging treatment option for many …