Year: 2023

Dr. Scott Reeder named next Chair of the Department of Radiology

Scott has accepted an offer to become the next Chair of the Department of Radiology at UW–Madison!

Congratulations to Dr. Geng!

Congratulations to Dr. Ruiqi Geng for defending her dissertation and completing all requirements for her PhD! We miss Ruiqi but wish her the best as she heads off to join Google.     You can read about some of work in the papers she has authored, with more on the way: Geng R, Buelo CJ, …

LIRP and QIML at ISMRM 2023 in Toronto

LIRP and QIML were both well-represented at the 2023 ISMRM meeting in Toronto. Here are some highlights: In addition to the secret sessions put on by Thekla, Ruiqi making it to the final round of the Young Investigator Award, and Rianne’s selection as an ISMRM Junior Fellow, Sheena’s abstract on screening approaches to reduce MRI …

Dev Joshi wins Best Resident Research Day Research Award

Dev Joshi was awarded the Best Resident Research Day Research Award at the Department of Surgery’s Resident 2023 Research Day for his work on “Quantitative digital histological analysis and comparison to proton density fat fraction in patients undergoing weight loss surgery.”   

Andrea Houck and Garrett Fullerton awarded NSF GRFP!

Andrea and Garrett both received the 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program! This nationally competitive award provides support for 3 years of graduate study. Andrea and Garrett are the first from QIML & LIRP to receive the GRFP. Congratulations!

Dr. Diego Hernando receives the Vilas Faculty Early-Career Investigator Award

Congratulations to Dr. Hernando for winning the Vilas Faculty Early-Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievements, and Dr. Hernando’s important to the missions of the School of Medicine and Public Health, and the Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, through $100,000 over 3 years to support Dr. Hernando’s research.

Dr. Rianne A Van Der Heijden selected as ISMRM Junior Fellow

Congratulations to Rianne for being chosen as a 2023 ISMRM Junior Fellow! Selection is based on past contributions and society service, as well as future potential for outstanding achievements to the field of magnetic resonance. Rianne will be presented with the award on June 5 at 2023 ISMRM meeting in Toronto. You can also find …

Congratulations to Ruiqi Geng and team for selection as finalist for ISMRM Young Investigator Award!

Ruiqi Geng is a finalist for the Young Investigators’ Award at the 2023 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Toronto, ON, Canada for her work on automated MR image prescription of the liver using deep learning. This work had also previously been highlighted in a JMRI editorial. Ruiqi will be presenting this work …

Quantification of Liver Iron Overload with MRI: Review and Guidelines from the ESGAR and SAR

A new consensus paper based on literature review and an expert panel led by Dr. Scott Reeder reviews evidence for different MRI-based liver iron quantification methods with consensus recommendation for a confounder-corrected R2*-based approaches. Reeder SB, Yokoo T, França M, Hernando D, Alberich-Bayarri Á, Alústiza JM, Gandon Y, Henninger B, Hillenbrand C, Jhaveri K, Karçaaltıncaba …