Questions or Edits?
Any questions about the information below, any additions or edits? Simply interested in getting involved? Please email Dr. Hanna Jensen at hkjensen@uams.edu.
Radiology Research Meeting occurs every Wednesday 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. via Zoom. Please email Dr. Jensen for details.
Active Projects
| Student / Resident Name | Faculty PI Name | Title | Research Area | Description / status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Looking for student | Mollie Meek Kevin Sexton | CT guided botox injections before hernia repair | Interventional Radiology / Surgery | Need a lit search and to review our patients vs ultrasound-guided injections. Needs IRB. |
| Looking for student | Mollie Meek | Personalized HHT folder | Interventional Radiology / Quality Improvement | In planning stages |
| Looking for student | Mollie Meek | Mechanical Thrombectomy of TIPS | Interventional Radiology | Manuscript written, needs student to update, find journal and submit |
| Looking for student | Mollie Meek | Redesigning the Interventional Radiology Mortality & Morbidity conference | Quality Research Interventional Radiology | In planning stages. |
| Looking for student or resident | Mollie Meek | Qualitative research project about perceptions of conflict of interest among interventional radiology physicians | Quality Research Outcomes Research | In planning stages. |
| Looking for student or resident | Xiawei Ou | Maternal Obesity and Offspring Neurodevelopment: the MOON study | Pediatric Neuroradiology | NIH funded study at Arkansas Children's Hospital. The goal is to understand how maternal obesity affects offspring brain structural and functional development. |
| Looking for student or resident | Lyle Burdine James Meek | Liver cancer - Y90 embolization and contralateral lobe hypertrophy for metastatic resection - UAMS experience | Interventional Radiology Liver Cancer | In planning stages |
| Winson Chee Shilpa Mohanan | Gitanjali Bajaj | Imaging of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas; The UAMS experience | Diagnostic Radiology | In planning stages |
| Rangarajan Purushothaman | Gitanjali Bajaj | Alignment is everything; The Kinematics, Imaging Findings and Management of Carpal Instability | Diagnostic Radiology | Abstract accepted to RSNA |
| Rangaraja Purushothaman | Gitanjali Bajaj | Imaging findings in abdominal manifestations of multiple myeloma | Diagnostic Radiology Multiple Myeloma | In planning stages |
| Nayanatara Swamy | Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith | Supplemental Screening for Breast Cancer in the Age of Precision Medicine | Diagnostic Radiology Breast Cancer | Accepted to ARRS |
| N/A | Arabinda K Choudhary | Utility of 3D and Reformatted Head CT images in the Evaluation of Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Accepted to ARRS. |
| N/A | Arabinda K Choudhary | The impact of the Consensus statement on abusive head trauma in infants and young children | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Rangarajan Purushothaman | Arabinda K Choudhary | Utility of 3D and Reformatted Head CT images in the Evaluation of Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma. | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Flavio Garcia-Peres | Arabinda K Choudhary | Spinal Subdural Hemorrhage in Abusive Head Trauma; A Pictorial Review | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Iqbal Haq | Arabinda K Choudhary | Spinal Ligamentous Injury in Abusive head Trauma: A pictorial review | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Rahul M. Nikam | Arabinda K Choudhary | Unravelling Neuroinflammation in Abusive Head Trauma with Radiotracer Imaging | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Liza Hill | Arabinda K Choudhary | Review of Neuroimaging of AHT in children | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Data collection on-going, IRB approved. Abstract accepted to ARRS. |
| George Koshy Vilanilam | Arabinda K Choudhary | Venous Injury in Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma: A pictorial review | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| N/A | Arabinda K Choudhary Peter J Strouse | Introduction to the Child Abuse Imaging special issue | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| George Koshy Vilanilam | Arabinda K Choudhary | Anatomy of arachnoid granulations | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | In planning stages. |
| George Koshy Vilanilam | Arabinda K Choudhary | Myodural bands and trauma in adults versus children. | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | In planning stages. |
| Rahul M. Nikam | Arabinda K Choudhary | Birth-related Subdural Hemorrhage: Prevalence, and Imaging Morphology | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Sorensen James | Arabinda K Choudhary | Artificial Intelligence in Child abuse imaging | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology Artificial Intelligence | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Kshitij Mankad | Arabinda K Choudhary | Sibling Screening in Suspected Abusive Head Trauma: A Proposed Guideline | Diagnostic Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submitted to Pediatric Radiology |
| Mitchell Benton | Kedar Jambhekar | Cardiac Amyloidosis in Multiple Myeloma: how does it affect the prognosis of the disease? | Diagnostic Radiology | In planning stages |
| Muhammad Hameed | Charles James | G-tube contrast check: Transition from fluoroscopy to abdominal radiographs | Pediatric Radiology | Accepted to SPR, preparing manuscript for Pediatric Radiology. |
| Ryan Seay | Charles James | Percutaneous Cecostomy: 25-year multi-institution experience | Pediatric Interventional Radiology | Presented at SPIR. Preparing manuscript for Pediatric Radiology. |
| Thomas Harkey | Charles James | Cecostomy Tube Fecalith - a case report | Interventional Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submission prepared for Pediatric Radiology |
| Bradley Griffiths Jeffrey Lynch | Emmanuel Giorgakis | Hepatic Artery Thrombosis after Liver Transplant | Interventional Radiology Liver Cancer | Under review at Annals of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. |
| Jeffrey Lynch | James Meek Lyle Burdine | Hepatic Artery Thrombectomy Case Series | Interventional Radiology | Submitted to JVIR |
| Jeffrey Lynch Mallory Heft | James Meek Joshua Eichhorn | Y90 PET | Interventional Radiology | Submitted to Nuclear Medicine Communications |
| Jimmy Palakunnel | James Meek | Same-day Y90; Case series | Interventional Radiology Liver Cancer | In planning stages |
| Jeffrey Lynch | James Meek Lyle Burdine Marie Burdine | CAR-T cells in mice models for transplant rejection | Interventional Radiology Liver Cancer Surgical Oncology | In planning stages |
| Humam Shahare | Mollie Meek Emily Kocurek | PERT (Pulmonary Embolism Response Team) | Interventional Radiology | Old preliminary data, needs updating |
| Brandon Allen | Erin Priddy Mollie Meek | Retrospective review of the use of Vortex ports for apheresis | Interventional Radiology | Data collected, manuscript in progress |
| Sandra Scroggins | Mollie Meek | LEAN project regarding MRI workflow | Interventional Radiology Quality Research | In planning stages |
| Anas Atassi | Mollie Meek | Endovascular fistulas - case series | Interventional Radiology | In planning stages |
| Dhruba Dasgupta | Mollie Meek | HHT in pregnancy | Interventional Radiology | Was presented as a poster. |
| Kaley Ferguson | Mollie Meek | Lung Cancer Screening | Diagnostic Radiology Lung Cancer | Updating dataset |
| Mallory Heft Mark Odom Andrew Baker Aaron Reith | Mollie Meek | Intracranial Hemorrhage Morphology Algorithm | Interventional Radiology Artificial Intelligence | Image analysis ongoing |
| Nicole Sullivan Mathieu Sabbagh | Mollie Meek | Case Report: HHT and melorheostosis | Interventional Radiology | Manuscript in progress |
| Adam Berry | Mollie Meek Kyle Kalkwarf Avi Bhavaraju | Artificial Intelligence in analyzing hemothorax chest X-rays | Diagnostic Radiology Interventional Radiology Artificial Intelligence Trauma | Waiting on imaging data |
| Marinna Tadros | Xiawei Ou | Impacts of nutrition and obesity on children’s brain development | Pediatric Neuroradiology | USDA-funded study at Arkansas Children's Hospital, see: https://acnc.uams.edu/home/research-cores-labs/our-laboratories-2/brain-imaging-lab/ for more details. |
| Natalie Phelan | Xiawei Ou | Effects of prenatal opioid exposure on children’s brain development | Pediatric Neuroradiology | NIH funded study at UAMS/ACH, part of the NIH Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study. https://heal.nih.gov/research/infants-and-children/healthy-brain/ |
| Shruti Kumar | Roopa Ram | Demographics of Abdominal Radiology Fellowship Program Directors | Diagnostic Radiology | Survey distributed, data analysis ongoing |
| None needed | Roopa Ram, Gitanjali Bajaj, Kedar Jambekar | LIRADS - Treatment response- Role of imaging | Diagnostic Radiology | Review article for Seminars in Radiology |
| Nayanatara Swamy | Roopa Ram | How well do you know the pelvic floor anatomy? | Diagnostic Radiology | Abstract accepted to RSNA |
| Akshaya Jagadale | Roopa Ram | Ankle Arthroplasty: Imaging findings of changing implants & emerging complications | Diagnostic Radiology | Abstract accepted to RSNA |
| Kristina Ok | Roopa Ram | What’s Up Front? An Educational Guide about the Frontal Recess for Residents | Diagnostic Radiology | Accepted to ARRS |
| George Vilanilam | Roopa Ram | International Medical Graduates in Radiology: Challenges and Moving Forward | Diagnostic Radiology | Accepted as a Fast 5 presentation at RSNA. |
| George Sidarous | Kevin Wong Daniel Ashton Charles James | Optical opacity reference for hip aspirations | Pediatric Radiology Interventional Radiology Basic Science | Prospective ongoing study going at WRMC with U of A |
| Evan Hicks | Roopa Ram | Factors that Influence the Choice of Radiologic Fellowship | Quality Research | Surveys sent out to program directors to distribute |
| Kori Mansfield-Harris | Kevin Wong | Correlation between breastfeeding and intussusception | Interventional Radiology | In planning stages |
Ongoing Research Collaboration
UAMS Radiology has an ongoing research collaboration with the University of Arkansas Computer Science Department Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) Lab. Headed up by department chair Dr. Arabinda Choudhary and CVIU lab director Dr. Khoa Luu, this collaboration is in its early days, but has already led to a number of grant applications and publication submissions by faculty, graduate, and post-graduate personnel from both institutions. Areas of ongoing research include correction and post-processing of chest radiographs, noise reduction in low-dose CT scans, and annotation tools which will allow faster and more accurate training of future machine learning algorithms. Other AI research at the UAMS radiology department includes collaboration between our Quantitative Imaging lab and the UAMS Myeloma Center, investigating quantitative markers of bone health and their effect on patient outcomes. AI research at UAMS involves personnel of every level, from support staff and medical students up to the department chair, and much of the active work has been led by residents and junior faculty.
Hanna Jensen, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Jensen is our research support faculty member. She received her medical training in her native Finland, where she completed her medical degree and a doctorate in cardiovascular surgery. Her postgraduate surgical training took place in Finland and in Denmark. She completed a Post-Doc at one of the largest pediatric cardiac centers in Europe, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, United Kingdom. She then worked as a Clinical Research Associate at the Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center in Atlanta prior to her relocation to Arkansas. Before joining UAMS full time, she worked as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Jensen has extensive experience in experimental, translational, and clinical research. Her main goal is to coordinate research projects, and support students, residents, and faculty in their research efforts. She conducts meetings every Friday morning for anyone interested in taking up research projects.