On February 10, 2025, the Department of Radiology held its annual Senior Research Day where senior residents present their research projects. This year, senior resident Farris Abou-Hanna, MD won the prize for his project entitled, "Radiologic Patterns Predict Etiology of Small Bowel Obstruction After Laparoscopic Roux-en Y Gastric Bypass."  His faculty mentors were Drs. Maheen Rajput and Isaac Samuel.

Our other esteemed presenters this year were: 

Andrew Monforton, MD
Presents: Congenital Coronary Heart Anomalies: A Diagnostic and Clinical Overview
Mentor: Rodrigo Moreira Bello, MD

Ayca Dundar, MD
Presents: Inter and Intra Tumoral Heterogeneity on [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TATE/[68Ga] Ga-DOTA-TOC PET/CT predicts response to [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE-PRRT in Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients
Mentor: Ahmad Shariftabrizi, MD

Joseph Hindman, MD
Presents: Diagnosis and Management of SIH: Spinal CSF Leaks and CSF Venous Fistulas
Mentor: Minako Hayakawa, MD

Gage Winger, MD
Presents: Vestibular Schwannomas
Mentor: Nitesh Shekhrajka, MD

Maura Alambert, MD
Presents: Background Parenchymal Enhancement in Breast MRI – A Comparative Analysis with BI-RADS and Proposal for a Novel Qualitative Classification System
Mentor: Su Kim Hsieh, MD

Brendan Carney, DO
Presents: The Use of the Internal Thoracic Vein for Tunneled Dialysis Catheter Placement
Mentor: Mohammed Amarneh, MD

Camila Gadens Zamboni, MD
Presents: Radiomics Based Differentiation of Glioblastoma and Metastatic Disease: Impact of Different T1-Contrast Enhanced Sequences on Radiomic Features and Model Performance
Mentor: Girish Bathla, MD

Youssef Mohsen, MD
Presents: Inter-lesional heterogeneity Indices on FDG PET/CT Correlate with ctDNA Oncogenic Pathway Activation in Progressive Colorectal Cancer
Mentor: Ahmad Shariftabrizi, MD