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UW Department of Radiology Conference Hub

Throughout the year, our faculty and trainees present at society conferences around the nation and the globe. See where they’ve been and where they’re heading below!

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Upcoming Conferences

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Erica Knavel Koepsel, MD	MRI-Guided Cryoablation for Primary and Salvage Prostate Cancer Treatment: Initial Patient Experience MRI-Guided Percutaneous Laser Ablation for Pediatric Vascular Anomalies: A Single-Institution Experience MRI-Guided Percutaneous Cryoablation for Pediatric Vascular Anomalies: Safety and Technical Outcomes Building a new interventional MRI practice

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Michael Veronesi, MD, PhD	Molecular Imaging of Gliomas
John-Paul (JP) Yu, MD, PhD	Molecular Imaging

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Andrew Wentland, MD, PhD	Spirit of Science – Andrew’s Story – Lessons for the Next Generation of Physician-Scientists
Perry Pickhardt, MD	Approach to Clinical Research in Radiology: How to Maximize Impact & Fun Spirit of Innovation – Perry’s Story
Jeffrey Kanne, MD	Cardiothoracic Imaging: Hottest Trials
Matthew Lee, MD	Spirit of Service – Matthew’s Story
Fred Lee, MD	Panelist: Practical Solutions for Maintaining a Robust Academic Mission Ted Talks: Passing It On Through Generations
Ali Pirasteh, MD	Is PET-MRI a Clinical or Research Tool? Panelist: Cardiac Device MRI Safety 2026
Jitka Starekova, MD	Panelist: Cardiac Device MRI Safety 2026 Spirit of Innovation: Jitka’s Story
Giuseppe Toia, MD, MS	Panelist: Contrast Safety 2026 Back to School – The Physics of Quantitative CT

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Kenneth Lee, MD	Ultrasound-guided procedures of the Shoulder Hands-on Workshop Leader

Past Conferences

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Andrew Wentland, MD, PhD	Renal Masses: Staging, Treatment, and Post-Treatment Imaging Session Moderator: Renal and Urothelial Session

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Laura Eisenmenger, MD	Stroke Imaging Protocols – Best Practice Workflows

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Leslie Nelson, DO	O-RADS MRI after Ultrasound and Patient Referral Patterns. O-RADS MRI in clinical practice (Workshop).
Erica Knavel Koepsel, MD	Microwave Ablation of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Guidelines and Best Practices. Diagnostic Imaging to Avoid Undertreatment and Complications during UAE for Uterine Fibroids. Mri-Guided Cryoablation for Primary and Salvage Prostate Cancer Treatment: Initial Patient Experience.
Nathan Skinner, MD, PhD	Techniques for Ultrasound-guided Genitourinary Biopsy and Intervention.

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Kelly Capel, MD	Isolated Trochlear Nerve Palsy Temporally Associated with Sildenafil (Viagra) Use: Imaging Findings and Diagnostic Considerations . A Practical Guide to Velopharyngeal Insufficiency.

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Chamil Jinadasa, MD (Resident. Faculty Mentor: Wenhui Zhou, MD, PhD)	Clinical utility and management impact of 18F-FES PET/CT for Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer.

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Chamil Jinadasa, MD (Resident. Faculty mentor: Nandakumar Menon, MD)	Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Reserve and Transient Ischemic Dilation During Regadenoson Stress F-18 Flurpiridaz PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.

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Prasad Dalvie, MD	From Tube to Tube-Free: Minimally Invasive Strategies for Definitive Management of Cholecystostomy-Dependent Patients.
Jordan Teague (Graduate student. Faculty mentor: Matthew Niemeyer, MD)	Predictive Monte Carlo-based dose distributions of 90Y transarterial radioembolization in an Oncopig lung cancer model.

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Kelly Capel, MD

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Veena Nair, PhD	Alterations Of The Hemodynamic Response In Mild Cognitive Impairment: Evidence For Early Neurovascular Uncoupling

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Prasad Dalvie, MD	Salvage of a Hepatic artery infusion (HAI) pump by embolization of extra-hepatic arterial supply

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Veena Nair, PhD	Persistent Gray Matter Hypoperfusion and Hemispheric CBF Asymmetry after Ischemic Stroke
Samuel Hurley, PhD	Persistent Gray Matter Hypoperfusion and Hemispheric CBF Asymmetry after Ischemic Stroke
Leonardo Rivera-Rivera, PhD	Persistent Gray Matter Hypoperfusion and Hemispheric CBF Asymmetry after Ischemic Stroke
Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD	Persistent Gray Matter Hypoperfusion and Hemispheric CBF Asymmetry after Ischemic Stroke
Kevin Johsnon, PhD	Persistent Gray Matter Hypoperfusion and Hemispheric CBF Asymmetry after Ischemic Stroke

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Tyler Bradshaw, PhD	NucLex: An Ontology for Standardized Terminology in Nuclear Medicine, Theranostics, and Radiopharmaceutical Therapy
Richard Bruce, MD	How to Actually Use Foundation Models: From Classification to Agents Learning Lab Generalization Over Specialization: Comparing a 3D MRI Foundation Model to CNN Baselines for MRI Protocol and Context Detection Tasks
Dania Daye, MD, PhD	Hip versus Hype: Trending Topics in Large Language Models & Agentic AI
John Garrett, PhD	How to Actually Use Foundation Models: From Classification to Agents Learning Lab Accuracy and Performance of an Incidental Breast Lesion Detection Tool on a Cohort of 18000 Consecutive Chest CT Exams Generalization Over Specialization: Comparing a 3D MRI Foundation Model to CNN Baselines for MRI Protocol and Context Detection Tasks Distilled BERT-Variant Models Can Extract Radiology Follow-Up Recommendations Using Expert-Guided LLM Labeled Data Extracting Neurocritical Findings from Overnight Neuroimaging Reports Using Open-Weight Locally Deployed LLMs
Alan McMillan, PhD Annual Meeting Organizing Committee member; Academic Program Co-Chair	How to Actually Use Foundation Models: From Classification to Agents Learning Lab
Orhan Unal, PhD	Generalization Over Specialization: Comparing a 3D MRI Foundation Model to CNN Baselines for MRI Protocol and Context Detection Tasks Distilled BERT-Variant Models Can Extract Radiology Follow-Up Recommendations Using Expert-Guided LLM Labeled Data Extracting Neurocritical Findings from Overnight Neuroimaging Reports Using Open-Weight Locally Deployed LLMs
Joshua Warner, MD, PhD	How to Actually Use Foundation Models: From Classification to Agents Learning Lab

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Sean Golden, MD; Co-author Joshua Verhagen (Medical Student)	How to use virtual injection software to facilitate complex embolization procedures: A pictorial essay
Matthew Lee, MD	Fat and calcification Lecture Session on Opportunistic Imaging Biomarkers in Abdominal Diseases & Panelist
Scott Reeder, MD, PhD	All you need to know about iron quantification with MRI: ESGAR – SAR guidelines and beyond

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Jeffrey Kanne, MD, MPH	Speaking the same language: Fleischner Society consensus on ILD terminology.

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Dheerendranath Battalapalli	Tumor Recurrence or Treatment Effect? Large Multi-institutional Evaluation of an AI Risk Assessment Model in Glioma and Brain Metastases.