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 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. |
| 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 |
| Muhammad Hameed | Charles James | G-tube contrast check: Transition from fluoroscopy to abdominal radiographs | Pediatric Radiology | Accepted to SPR, preparing manuscript for Pediatric Radiology. |
| Thomas Harkey | Charles James | Cecostomy Tube Fecalith - a case report | Interventional Radiology Pediatric Radiology | Submission prepared for Pediatric Radiology |
| 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 |
| Marissa Weir | Mollie Meek | Lung Cancer Screening | Diagnostic Radiology Lung Cancer | Updating dataset |
| Bennett Perkins | Mollie Meek Kyle Kalkwarf | Trauma Embolization | Interventional Radiology | In planning stages |
| Mallory Heft Mark Odom Andrew Baker Aaron Reith | Mollie Meek Trauma team | Intracranial Hemorrhage Morphology Algorithm | Interventional Radiology Artificial Intelligence | Image analysis ongoing |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kori Mansfield-Harris | Sateesh Jayappa | Correlation between breastfeeding and intussusception | Interventional Radiology | Data collection ongoing |
| Alex McClanahan | Structural and vascular neuroimaging coregistration | NeuroIR | IRB submitted | |
| Shrinivas Radder | Janice Murphy | Case series in pediatric sports injuries seen in MRI imaging | Pediatric Radiology | IRB approved |
| Shrinivas Radder | Janice Murphy | Case series in fetal MRI | Pediatric Radiology | IRB approved |
| Anna Eshghi Shruti Kumar | Nagmeh Eshghi Josh Eicchorn | GLP-1 Agonist/Insulin Secretagogue Effects on FDG Biodistribution in Patient undergoing FDG PET/CT. | Diagnostic Radiology | Data collection ongoing |
| Alex McClanahan | Nagmeh Eshghi Rudy VanHemert | Institutional review of head and neck gunshot wound imaging findings | Diagnostic Radiology | Data collection ongoing |
| Luis Nunez Dhruba Dasgupta | Teresita Angtuaco | Imaging requests from outside UAMS | Diagnostic Radiology | Data collection ongoing |
| N/A | Nagmeh Eshghi Josh Eichhorn | Extra-Medullary Multiple Myeloma in Central and Peripheral nervous System: An Institutional Review and Update | Diagnostic Radiology | Data collection ongoing |
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.