Home Radiology collaborative

Radiology collaborative

The HVPAA Radiology Collaborative is co-directed by Pamela Johnson, MD from Johns Hopkins Hospital and Yoshimi Anzai, MD, MPH from University of Utah.  With the approval of the department chair, 30 academic medical centers (listed below) joined the radiology collaborative and are participating on multicenter performance improvement initiatives designed to improve the value of care we deliver.

The initial slate of projects includes:

  1. Consensus standardized management recommendations based on ACR AC®, ACR incidental finding white papers and society evidence-based guidelines.
    • Phase I: lung nodule, thyroid nodule, AAA
    • Phase II: adrenal nodule, ovarian cyst, small renal mass
    • Phase III: pancreatic cyst, renal cyst
  2. Harmonizing abdominal CT protocols to reduce unnecessary multiphase imaging as detailed in the new ACR Choosing Wisely® recommendations
  3. Pooling data to establish benchmarks for emergency department imaging positive exam rates before and after performance improvement interventions

_______________________________________________________________________

HVPAA Radiology Collaborative Roster

Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Michael K. Atalay, MD, PhD

  • Director, Imaging Research
  • Director, Cardiac MRI and CT
  • Asst. Professor, Diagnostic Imaging & Medicine

David Swenson, MD

  • Quality Officer
  • Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Imaging

Jonathan Movson, MD

  • Director of Radiology Informatics
  • Assistant Professor (Clinical), Department of Diagnostic Imaging

Baylor Medical School

Alexandre Frigini, MD

  • Director of Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Radiology Peer Review
  • Director of Medical Student and Allied Health Education

Marc Willis, DO

  • Associate Chairman for Quality Improvement
  • Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention
  • Associate Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency
  • Associate Professor, Radiology and Orthopedic Surgery

Ann Marie Marciel, MD, PhD

  • Vice Chair of Research
  • Chief of Emergency Radiology
  • Assistant Professor of Radiology

Baylor University Medical Center 

Kennith F. Layton, MD, FAHA

  • Vice-Chairman, Department of Radiology
  • Director, Interventional Neuroradiology
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
  • Assistant Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program

Baystate Medical Center

Stephen C. O’Connor, MD

  • Vice Chair, Department of Radiology, Baystate Medical Center
  • Medical Director of Quality, Radiology Department, Baystate Medical Center
  • Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Einstein Healthcare Network (TJUH affiliate)

Ryan K Lee, MD, MBA

  • MRI Safety Officer
  • Director of MRI
  • Section Chief, Neuroradiology

Peter S. Wang, MD

  • Director of Body CT and MRI
  • Director of Medical Students
  • Department of Radiology
  • Einstein Healthcare Network

Florida Hospital  

Jeremy Burt, MD

  • Medical Director of Research, Department of Radiology

Henry Ford Hospital 

Brent Griffith, MD

  • Associate Program Director – Radiology Residency

Indiana University School of Medicine

Mark S. Frank, MD, MBA

  • Professor of Clinical Radiology and Imaging Sciences
  • Director, Clinical Informatics

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Pamela T. Johnson, MD

  • Vice Chair of Quality, Safety & Value, Department of Radiology
  • Director of Appropriate Imaging, Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Radiology Residency Program Director
  • Physician Lead Health System High Value Care Committee

Brandyn Lau, MPH

  • Director of Radiology Value Informatics

Susan Harvey, MD

  • Director of Breast Imaging

Lisa Mullen, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Breast Imaging

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Franco Verde, MD

  • Associate Radiology Residency Program Director

Medical College of Wisconsin 

Paul Knechtges, MD

  • Associate Professor of Radiology
  • Director of Quality Improvement for Diagnostic Radiology

Michigan Medicine (Formerly University of Michigan)

Ella Kazerooni, MD

  • Interim Chair, Department of Radiology
  • Professor, Radiology, Internal Medicine – Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs
  • Director, Cardiothoracic Radiology
  • Service Chief, Diagnostic Radiology

Matthew Davenport, MD

  • Associate Professor, Radiology and Urology
  • Associate Chair, Quality
  • Chair, Michigan Radiology Quality Collaborative
  • Director, Body MRI
  • Division of Abdominal Radiology

Prasad Shankar

  • Assistant Professor, Radiology
  • Division of Abdominal Radiology

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Mark DeLano, MD FACR

  • Director, Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
  • Medical Director, Department of Radiology, Spectrum Health System

Christopher M Chambers MD, PhD, FACS

  • Spectrum Health Vice President-Research
  • Chief, Section of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Andrew Moriarity, MD

  • Body Imaging Education Director, College of Human Medicine, MSU
  • Quality Committee Co-Chair, Advanced Radiology Services

Midwestern University 

  • Gregory Henkle, MD
    • Vice Chair and Radiology Residency Director

NYU Langone Health System

Danny Kim, MD

  • Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
  • Director of Quality and Safety, Department of Radiology

Stella Kang, MD

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology

Leon Rybak, MD

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
  • Vice Chair of Operations 

Ankur Doshi, MD

Sheila Sheth, MD

Ochsner Clinic Foundation 

Stephen Johnson, MD

  • GI/GU Imaging Section Head

Penn State College of Medicine

Tim Mosher, MD

  • Chairman of Radiology
  • Distinguished Professor of Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery

Alison Chetlen, DO

  • Co-Director of Medical Student Education for Dept. of Radiology
  • Associate Professor, Department of Radiology

Presence Saint Francis Hospital 

Joseph Calandra, MD

  • Chair and Residency Program Director

Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson

Jeffrey Kempf, MD, FACR

  • Residency Program Director
  • Chief of Nuclear Imaging

Stanford Medical Center

Daniel Rubin, MD

  • Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford) and Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research)
  • Director of Biomedical Informatics, Stanford Cancer Institute
  • Director, Scholarly Concentration in Informatics and Data Driven Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Department of Radiology

Terry Desser, MD

  • Professor of Radiology
  • Division of Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology

University of Alberta, Canada

Christopher Fung, MD

  • Department of Radiology

University of California Davis

Ramit Lamba, MD

  • Professor of Radiology
  • Chief of Abdominal Imaging and Director of CT
  • Associate Chair (Business and Finance) – Department of Radiology

Jonathan Hargreaves, MD

  • Director of Radiology Residency Quality Improvement

University of California San Diego

Alexander Norbash, MD

  • Chair and Professor of Radiology

University of Connecticut Medical School 

Marco Molina, MD

  • Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
  • Section Head, Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound
  • Assistant Professor of Radiology

University of Maryland Medical Center

Eddie Herskovits, MS, PhD

  • Vice Chair, Informatics
  • Professor of Radiology

Jade Wong, MD

  • Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
  • Vice Chair, Quality & Patient Safety

University of Nebraska 

Mark Keiper, MD

  • Professor of Radiology
  • Hospital Service Chief
  • Medical Director Marketing & Scheduling

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Hanna M. Zafar, MD, MHS

  • Assistant Professor, Radiology
  • Co-Director, Automated Radiology Recommendation Tracking Engine

Mary Scanlon, MD

  • Residency Program Director, HUP
  • Section Chief, ED
  • Vice Chair, Education, Radiology
  • Professor of Clinical Radiology

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Tharakeswara K. Bathala, MBBS, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Radiology

University of Texas Southwestern

Cecelia Brewington, MD.

  • Professor and Vice Chairman
  • Division Chief, Community Radiology
  • Department of Radiology

David Fetzer, MD

  • Assistant Professor, Abdominal Imaging Division
  • Medical Director of Ultrasound
  • Chief of Abdominal Imaging Interventional Services

Travis Browning, MD

  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Quality, Department of Radiology
  • Medical Director, Medical Informatics

Kanupriya Vijay, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Radiology

University of Utah School of Medicine and University of Utah Health Sciences

Yoshimi Anzai, MD

  • Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer
  • Professor of Radiology

University of Wisconsin

Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, MS

  • Professor (Tenure), Department of Radiology
  • Chief of Breast Imaging Section
  • Associate Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Deputy Director, Institute of Clinical Translational Science

Radiology Partners Research Institute (multiple academic affiliates)

Rich Heller, MD

  • Chair of radiology for Advocate Children’s Hospital
  • VP Clinical Services and National Director of Pediatric Radiology at Radiology Partners

Upma Rawal, MD

  • Director of Quality
  • Radiology Partners

Jay Bronner, MD, MBA

  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Radiology Partners