Dr. Dustin Pooler, research associate in Dr. Perry Pickhardt’s CT Research lab and Department of Radiology intern, just received the Young Investigator award at the Society of Computer Body Tomography & Magnetic Resonance (SCBT-MR) meeting in Boston, MA. This is the second young investigator award for Dr. Pooler this year, as he also received the 2012 International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) Young Investigator award in March 2012.
The winning presentation at SCBT-MR 2012 was entitled: Natural history of small (6-9 mm) colorectal polyps followed by CT colonography: in vivo growth rates predict histology. Since Dr. Pooler joined the CT Research group two years ago, he has presented more than 10 oral papers at scientific meetings, and co-authored 17 peer-reviewed publications, including several first-author publications. Dr. Pooler also has several more peer-reviewed publications in the process of being published.
Congratulations Dr. Pooler!