The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting will be held November 30 – December 4, 2025 in Chicago. Many of our department’s faculty, trainees and affiliated students will present as noted in the below schedule. In addition to presenting, many of our department members participate in social events, scientific abstracts, and more.
Thomas Grist, MD will receive RSNA’s Gold Medal in recognition of his remarkable service to the science of radiology.
RSNA’s annual meeting provides radiology professionals and industry partners with endless opportunities to learn, connect, exchange ideas and see the latest technology in action. View the full program here.
Sunday, November 30
| Name | Title | Session | Time | Co-authors |
| Jade Anderson, MD (co-author) | What is that? A Radiologists Guide to Less Common Orthopedic Procedures and Devices | Musculoskeletal Imaging Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Nicole Sztuk, DO, Mary (Liz) Buchanan, MD |
| John Caniglia, MD (resident) | Thyroid artery embolization for benign goiter; Anatomy, evaluation and treatment techniques | Interventional Radiology Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Josh Verhagen, Matthew M. Niemeyer, MD, Sean K. Golden, MD |
| Dania Daye, MD, PhD (co-author) | Transforming Patient Care: Radiologist-Driven Consultations with Opportunistic CT Screening | Imaging Informatics Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Karthika Devi D S, MBBS, Adnan Ahmad, Samriddhi Sivakumar, Domenico Mastrodicasa, MD, Sarabjeet Singh, MD, MBA, Perry J. Pickhardt, MD, Dushyant Sahani, MD |
| Anna Giarratana, MD, PhD (resident) | 68GA-Dotatate PET In Meningioma: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Post-Treatment Pearls | Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Abhinav Patel, MBBS, Michael C. Veronesi, MD, PhD, Matthew E. Larson, MD,PhD |
| Amina Karage, MD (medical student) | Core Communication Skills for Patient Encounters in Radiology: An Educational Toolkit | Noninterpretive Skills (Beyond Imaging) Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Anand K. Narayan, MD, PhD, Victoria L. Mango, MD, Jade A. Anderson, MD |
| Matthew Lee, MD | Untapped Potential: Adding Value Through Image-Based Opportunistic Imaging | Physics Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | John W. Garrett, PhD, Joshua D. Warner, MD,PhD, Perry J. Pickhardt, MD |
| Meghan Lubner, MD | Imaging Penile Emergencies | Emergency Radiology Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Jason A. Pietryga, MD, Nicholas G. Rhodes, MD, Jamie Marko, MD, Benjamin L. Triche, MD, Margarita V. Revzin, MD, MS, Daniel Shapiro, Yashant Aswani, MD |
| Arissa Milton, BS (medical student) | Bias Busters: Countering Commonly Seen Epidemiological Biases in Radiology Research | Noninterpretive Skills (Beyond Imaging) Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Christoph I. Lee, MD, MS, Ruth C. Carlos, MD, MS, Farouk Dako, MD, MPH, Randy C. Miles, MD, MPH, Efren J. Flores, MD, Anand K. Narayan, MD, PhD |
| Andrew Moore, MD (cardiothoracic imaging fellow) | A Fundamental Approach to Smoking Related Interstitial Lung Disease | Chest Imaging Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Daffolyn Rachael Fels Elliott, Gregory M. Lee, MD, Jeffrey P. Kanne, MD, Christopher Walker, MD |
| Anand Narayan, MD, PhD | Should I Purchase this AI Software? A Toolkit for Department Leaders to Determine Return on Investment | Noninterpretive Skills (Beyond Imaging) Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Robert K. Bour, MD, Dania Daye, MD, PhD |
| Anand Narayan, MD, PhD (co-author) | Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening and Multidisciplinary Care in Rural Settings: Barriers and Opportunities | Noninterpretive Skills (Beyond Imaging) Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Diego Collazo-Irizarry, BSc, Kyle Burton, Noelle K. LoConte, MD |
| Leslie Nelson, DO (co-author) | Not So Retro: A Modern Look At Retroperitoneal Pathology | Genitourinary Imaging Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Wilfred R. Furtado, Amanda C. Gibson, Aman Khurana, James T. Lee, Joseph W. Owen, Andres R. Ayoob |
| Michio Taya, MD | Where are we with colorectal cancer (CRC) screening: CT Colonography | Gastrointestinal Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Perry Pickhardt, Matthew H Lee, David H Kim |
| Michio Taya, MD (co-author) | MRI for abdominal pain in pregnancy: appendicitis and beyond | Emergency Radiology Education Exhibits | 7:30 AM | Jonathan Levine (Northwestern) |
| Amy Fowler, MD, PhD | Session Moderator, Presenter: Introduction to QUIC and Breast Cancer Working Group | QUIC Roadmap for Clinical Implementation of Breast Density Quantification | 9:00 AM | |
| Sarv Priya, MD, MBBS | Congenital Abnormalities of the Great Vessels | Interesting Cases in Vascular Imaging | 9:00 AM | |
| Ryan Woods, MD, MPH | Informatics Considerations when Implementing Quantitative Breast Density Assessment | QUIC Roadmap for Clinical Implementation of Breast Density Quantification | 9:00 AM | |
| Thekla Oechtering, MD, PD Dr med | Evaluation of in-line automated deep learning-based slice prescription for cardiac MRI | Cardiac Imaging (Technical and Applied AI) | 10:30 AM | Gaspar Delso, Jitka Starekova, Geng Li, Sheena Chu, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Karl Vigen, Orhan Unal, Dan W. Rettmann, Sherry Huang, Ty A. Cashen, Prashant Nagpal, Scott B. Reeder |
| Carrie Bartels (radiologic technologist) |
Optimizing Radiation Dose: UW–Madison’s Experience with the ACR Learning Network Impower Program | Quality Improvement Reports Sunday Afternoon Poster Discussions I | 11:45 AM | Ran Zhang, PhD, Rachel Bladorn, BS, RT, Kelsey Schluter, BS, Martin Wagner, PhD, Giuseppe V. Toia, MD, MS, Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, PhD |
| Dania Daye, MD, PhD (co-author) | Interventional Radiology Sunday Afternoon Poster Discussions II | AI-Powered Model for Cardiac Risk Prediction in Hemodialysis Patients Undergoing Interventional Radiology Procedures | 12:15 PM | Krishna Parvataneni, David Schramm, Jie Cui, Christopher Bridge, DPhil, |
| Jiayi Tang (PhD student) | Assessment of Technical Precision of Pediatric Liver Fat Quantification with MRI and Ultrasound | Pediatric Imaging Sunday Afternoon Poster Discussions II | 12:15 PM | Lizbeth Ayala-Dominguez, PhD, Amber Possell, RDMS, RVT, BS, RT, Gabrielle Hoffmann, Jitka Starekova, MD, Alexandra Anagnostopoulos, Daiki Tamada, PhD, Garrett Fullerton, MS, Andrew L. Wentland, MD, PhD, Aaron Carrel, Ivan Rosado-Mendez, PHD, Diego Hernando, PhD |
| Richard Bruce, MD John-Paul Yu, MD, PhD (co-authors) | Neighborhood-Level Disadvantage Impacts Multiple Measures of Brain Health: An Imaging Epidemiology Study | Neuroradiology (Brain: Anatomy, Developmental and Pediatrics) | 1:00 PM | Ethan Willbrand, Elizabeth Stoeckl, MD, BS, Daryn S. Belden, BS, Sheena Chu, Daniil Zhitnitskii, Elena Bonke, Jyrki Lotjonen, Richard J. Bruce, MD, John-Paul J. Yu, MD, PhD |
| Tabby Kennedy, MD | Is it Invasive Fungal Sinusitis? | Horse or Zebra? Case-Based Review of Common and Very Rare Diagnoses in the Head and Neck | 1:00 PM | |
| Wenhui Zhou, MD, PhD | Prediction of Occult Invasive Breast Cancer in Women with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ using Multitask Deep Learning | Radiology AI at the Cutting Edge: Research from RSNA R&E Foundation Awardees | 1:00 PM | |
| Christoph Lee, MD, MS, MBA | The Bad: An Ineffective Technology and the Evidence that Supported Adoption | Go vs No-Go: Evaluating New and Advanced Technologies for Clinical Adoption | 2:30 PM | |
| Matthew Lee, MD | Session Moderator | Gastrointestinal Imaging (Body Composition) | 2:30 PM | |
| Yura Oh, BS | AI-Based Detection of Liver Iron Overload from MRI Localizers: A Preliminary Study | Gastrointestinal Imaging (Liver – Diffuse Disease MRI) | 2:30 PM | Dheerendranath Battalapalli, Marwa Ismail, Julius F. Heidenreich, Jitka Starekova, David T. Harris, Garrett Fullerton, Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Scott B. Reeder, Pallavi Tiwari, Diego Hernando |
| Michael Tuite, MD | How I Report the Superior Labrum | Shoulder Imaging: How I Report It | 2:30 PM | |
| Giuseppe Toia, MD | There and Back Again – A Photon’s Tale | GE Innovation Launch Event | 6:00 PM |
Monday, December 1
| Name | Title | Session | Time | Co-authors |
| Jade Anderson, MD | Radiographic Evaluation of Elbow Fractures | Sports Imaging of the Elbow | 8:00 AM | |
| Nick Burris, MD | Session Moderator, Presenter: High Quality Aortic Imaging: More Than Just Some Measurements | Aortic Imaging: A Multi-Disciplinary Team Approach | 8:00 AM | |
| Anand Narayan, MD, PhD | Session Moderator, Presenter: USA Perspective | Fundamental Screening Issues and Limitations in Under-Represented Populations | 8:00 AM | |
| Richard Bruce, MD; Joshua Warner, MD, PhD | Integration that Drives Patient Care Forward | Sectra Booth Session | 8:30 AM | |
| Fatima Rashidi, MD | Prospective Evaluation of Comfortable Open-Coil MRI for Whole-Body PET/MRI | Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Monday Morning Poster Discussions | 9:00 AM | James Wang, Alan B. McMillan, PhD, Ali Pirasteh, MD |
| Kenneth Lee, MD | Extensor Mechanism of the Knee: Imaging and Intervention | Knee Imaging: The Fundamentals | 9:30 AM | |
| Lewis Jordan, MD, MPH, MS | Using A3 Framework to Increase Mammography Screening Percentages in Patient Populations Living in Areas With High Neighborhood Deprivation | Noninterpretive Skills (Beyond Imaging) Monday Afternoon Poster Discussions II | 12:45 PM | Tyler M. Prout, MD, Dania Daye, MD, PhD, Robin Lankton, Mai A. Elezaby, MD, Anand K. Narayan, MD, PhD |
| Anand Narayan, MD, PhD (co-author) | Improving Timeliness of Diagnostic Mammography Leveraging a Model for Improvement Work Queue Optimization Process | Quality Improvement Reports Monday Afternoon Poster Discussions II | 12:45 PM | Pragya Dhar, MPH, Lina Karout, MD, Kelsey Gentile, Annette LaPointe, RT, BS, Jessica Lorusso, Stuart Hooton, RT, Nicole Vetrano, Taj Qureshi, MPH, Diego Collazo-Irizarry, BSc, Kevin Salinas, MD, Patricia Gonzalez-Vega, Alexander Burns, BS, Patrick Curley, MS, Kristine S. Burk, MD, Efren J. Flores, MD |
| Nick Burris, MD (co-author) | Quantifying Variability of Ascending Aortic Growth Measurements between Manual, AI-based , and Three-Dimensional Methods | Vascular Imaging (Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Imaging for Prognosis and Disease Monitoring in Vascular Disease) | 1:30 PM | |
| Carlos Alberto Campello Jorge (radiology research fellow) | Latent Growth of the Descending Thoracic Aorta is a Marker of Genetic Aortopathy | Vascular Imaging (Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Imaging for Prognosis and Disease Monitoring in Vascular Disease) | 1:30 PM | Prabhvir S. Marway, BA, MBBChir, Gregory Spahlinger, Nic Tjahjadi, Nicholas S. Burris, MD |
| Thekla Oechtering, MD, PD Dr med | Session Moderator | Vascular Imaging (AI and quantitative Imaging for prognosis and disease monitoring in vascular disease) | 1:30 PM | |
| Andrew Ross, MD, MPH | Hands-on Ultrasound Clinic Instructor | RSNA Hands-On Workshop: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Approach to Ultrasound Assessment of the Elbow and Forearm | 2:00 PM | |
| Ryan Woods, MD, MPH | Considerations for Implementing Volumetric Breast Density | Lunit Vendor Workshop | 4:30 PM |
Tuesday, December 2
| Name | Title | Session | Time | Co-authors |
| Josh Warner, MD, PhD | Session Leader | SIIM Epic User Group Planning Committee meeting | 7:00 AM | |
| Anand Narayan, MD, PhD | Addressing Current Challenges in Representation: A Midwest Perspective | Addressing Current Challenges in Representation: Regional and Global Perspectives | 8:00 AM | |
| Aria Salyapongse, BS (PhD student) | Relating radiologist Likert image quality scores in bariatric patients to a physics model of detector electronic noise | Gastrointestinal Imaging (CT, Ultrasound Techniques) | 8:00 AM | Salyapongse AM, Aria Salyapongse, BS, Giuseppe V. Toia, MD, MS, Hiroki Kawashima, PhD, Meghan G. Lubner, MD, Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, PhD H, Szczykutowicz TP |
| Daiki Tamada, PhD | Improving DL Segmentation of Head/Neck PC-MRA with Pulsation Artifacts: A Simulated Artifact Training Strategy | Physics (MRI) | 8:00 AM | Thekla H. Oechtering, MD, Julius F. Heidenreich, MD, Jitka Starekova, MD, Eisuke Takai, Scott B. Reeder, MD, PhD |
| Dania Daye, MD, PhD (co-author) | From Reports to Interpretations: A Scoping Review of Large Language Models in Radiology | Imaging Informatics Tuesday Morning Poster Discussions | 9:00 AM | Dana Alkhulaifat, MD, Satvik Tripathi, Yohan Kim, Ebubechukwu Enwerem, Allison Brea, Tessa S. Cook, MD, PhD |
| Greg Avey, MD | How Finances Interact with Goals and Personal and Professional Fulfillment | Finances for Personal and Professional Fulfillment | 9:30 AM | |
| Laura Eisenmenger, MD (co-author) | Low Prevalence of Actionable Imaging Findings in Emergency Department Patients Presenting with Vertigo: 10 Year Retrospective Analysis in a Large Health System | Neuroradiology (Stroke: Diagnosis and Treatment) | 9:30 AM | Raven Spencer, MD, Jason Gandhi, Charles Q. Li, MD, Laura B. Eisenmenger, MD, Michael F. Goldberg, MD, Warren Chang, MD, MBA |
| Daniela Martin, MD | Airway Devices | Thoracic Imaging of Medical Devices | 9:30 AM | |
| Elizabeth Burnside, MD, MPH | Panelist | Putting Breast AI into Practice: How Should Academic Centers Lead the Way? (Lunit) | 10:30 AM | |
| Scott Reeder, MD, PhD | Practical Tips for Building a Research Career | Career Development | 10:10 AM | |
| Dania Daye, MD, PhD | Session Moderator | Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Threat Landscape Beyond the Hospital | 11:00 AM | |
| Richard Bruce, MD; Joshua Warner, MD, PhD | Accelerating Radiology Transformation Through Collaborative Innovation | Lunch and Learn with Epic, Microsoft, and Sectra | 11:45 AM | |
| Zahra Alyani Nezhad, MSc, BSC (PhD student) | Reducing Repeat Rates in CTPA: Strategies for Optimizing Iodine Contrast Enhancement | Quality Improvement Reports Tuesday Afternoon Poster Discussions I | 12:15 PM | Nezhad ZA, Zahra Alyani Nezhad, MSc,BSC, Giuseppe V. Toia, MD, MS, Rachel Bladorn, BS, RT, Carrie Bartels, RT, Kelsey Schluter, BS, Jeffrey P. Kanne, MD, Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, PhD R, Bartels C, Schluter K, Kanne J, Szczykutowicz TP. |
| Elizabeth Sadowski, MD | AUB and Uterine Malignancy: The Radiologist’s Role | Uterine Bleeding: Do You See What I See? | 1:30 PM | |
| Roberta Strigel, MD, MS | Faculty Director, Hands-On Lab | RSNA Hands-On Lab: MRI-Guided Breast Biopsy (Registration Fee Required) | 2:00 PM | |
| Matthew Lee, MD | AI-Driven Quantification of Abdominal Aortic Calcification on Contrast Enhanced CT is Predictive of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality | Science Session (Opportunistic Screening: Enhancing Diagnostic Impact from Routine Imaging) | 3:15 PM | Louis A. Hinshaw, Matthew H. Lee, MD, John W. Garrett, PhD, Ryan Zea, MS, Perry J. Pickhardt, MD |
| Meghan Lubner, MD | Penile MR | Male Pelvis: Everything but the Prostate! | 4:30 PM | Jason A. Pietryga, MD, Nicholas G. Rhodes, MD, Jamie Marko, MD, Benjamin L. Triche, MD, Margarita V. Revzin, MD, MS, Daniel Shapiro, Yashant Aswani, MD |
Wednesday, December 3
| Name | Title | Session | Time | Co-authors |
| Scott Perlman, MD, MS (co-author) | PET-Based Quantitative Predictions of Individual Lesion Response to Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Through Machine Learning | Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (Neuroendocrine Tumors) | 8:00 AM | Sebastian Salgado-Maldonado, Victor Santoro-Fernandes, Brayden Schott, Alison Deatsch, Robert Jeraj, PhD |
| Timothy Szczykutowicz, PhD | Characterization of Focal Spot Size’s Effect on MSK Image Sharpness for Deep Silicon Photon Counting | Physics Wednesday Morning Poster Discussions | 9:00 AM | Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, PhD, Aria Salyapongse, BS, Krista McClure, Zahra Alyani Nezhad, MSc,BSC, Meghan G. Lubner, MD, Greg D. Avey, MD, Brian K. Markhardt, MD, Nicholas C. Laucis, MD, Scott Slavic, MS, Zhye Yin, Dean Zsenak, Giuseppe V. Toia, MD, MS |
| Orhan Unal, PhD | Improving Radiology Resident Education with Locally Deployed AI: A Pilot Study on Feasibility and Educational Impact | Imaging Informatics Wednesday Morning Poster Discussions | 9:00 AM | Orhan Unal, PhD, Taylor Sellers, BS, MD, John E. Winterholler, MD, Nicholas Tan, MD, Isha Pathak, MD, Allison M. Grayev, MD, John W. Garrett, PhD |
| Scott Reeder, MD, PhD (co-author) | Detection of HCC One Year Following Negative MRI Versus Negative Ultrasound | Gastrointestinal Imaging (Liver – HCC) | 9:30 AM | Varney C, Morrison S, Kuchibhatla M, Harris DT, Mueller L, Loomba R, Khurana A, Nam DK, Hosseinibensenjan M, Min JH, Alsudaney M, Wang K, Bolger I, Reeder SB, Sirlin CB, Taouli B, Bashir |
| Anand Narayan, MD, PhD | Resources for Radiologists on RSNA’s Ed Central Platform | Radiology Health Equity | 11:00 AM | |
| Dania Daye, MD, PhD (co-author) | Generating Synthetic Chest CT Radiology Reports Using Large Language Models- A Chameleon Dataset Study | Imaging Informatics Wednesday Afternoon Poster Discussions I | 12:15 PM | Satvik Tripathi, Ebubechukwu Enwerem, Dana Alkhulaifat, MD, Rupali Jain, MD,MBBS, Meghana Muppuri, Emiliano Garza Frias, MD, Shawn Lyo, MD, Scott A. Simpson, DO, MEd, Tessa S. Cook, MD, PhD |
| Aria Salyapongse, BS (PhD student) | Prototype deep silicon photon-counting detector CT preliminary comparison of virtual unenhanced and true unenhanced images | Physics Wednesday Afternoon Poster Discussions I | 12:15 PM | Giuseppe V. Toia, MD, MS, Zhye Yin, Ming Yan, PhD, Krista McClure, Meghan Yue, BS, Scott Slavic, MS, Meghan G. Lubner, MD, Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, PhD |
| Perry Pickhardt, MD | Opportunistic CT for Phenotypic Biological Aging | AI in Population Health (Advanced) | 1:30 PM | |
| Andrew Wentland, MD, PhD | Session Moderator | Genitourinary Imaging (Current Topics in Benign Renal Disease) | 1:30 PM | |
| Meghan Lubner, MD | Oncologic Emergencies | Challenging Topics in Emergency Radiology | 3:00 PM | |
| Elizabeth Sadowski, MD | Session Moderator | Keep it Simple in the Adnexa: US and MRI | 3:00 PM | |
| Thekla Oechtering, MD, PD Dr med | 4D Flow for Clinical Problem Solving | Vascular Imaging for the Next Decade: We’re not in Kansas Anymore | 3:00 PM |
Thursday, December 4
| Name | Title | Session | Time | Co-authors |
| Tess Chapman, MD | Session Moderator | Small Parts, Big Stories: Painting the Picture of Pediatric Soft Tissue Imaging | 8:00 AM | |
| Jeffrey Kanne, MD | Fungal Infection | Imaging of Pulmonary Infections | 8:00 AM | |
| Elizabeth Burnside, MD, MPH | Algorithm to Enable More Accurate Breast Cancer Detection Rate Estimation When Registry Outcomes Are Not Available | Breast Imaging Thursday Morning Poster Discussions | 9:00 AM | Hong Li, Brian L. Sprague, PhD, Janie M. Lee, MD, MSc, Michael Lasarev, Diana Miglioretti, PhD, Robert A.Smith, PhD |
| Zahra Alyani Nezhad, MSc, BSC (PhD student) | Using an AI Based Informatics Approach for Visualization of Contrast Enhancement in Multiphase CT Protocols at Scale | Imaging Informatics Thursday Morning Poster Discussions | 9:00 AM | Zahra Alyani Nezhad, MSc,BSC, Dvij Sharma, John W. Garrett, PhD, Rachel Bladorn, BS, RT, Carrie Bartels, RT, Giuseppe V. Toia, MD, MS, Meghan G. Lubner, MD, Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, PhD |
| Sarv Priya, MD, MBBS | Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Approach and Pitfalls | Pulse and Circumstance: Where Heart and Vascular Imaging Coincide | 11:00 AM | |
| Abigal Keller, BA (medical student) | Performance of Diagnostic Mammography and Ultrasound for Pregnant Patients | Breast Imaging Thursday Afternoon Poster Discussions I | 12:15 PM | Bowman Brown, Mai A. Elezaby, MD, Lonie R. Salkowski, MD, PhD, Amy M. Fowler, MD, PhD |
| Aria Salyapongse, BS (PhD student) | Comparison of Reader Scoring and Quantitative Image Quality of Neurological CT Exams on Energy-Integrating Detector and Silicon Photon-Counting Detector CT | Neuroradiology (Techniques and Methods: Other Techniques) | 1:30 PM | Aria Salyapongse, BS, Brian E. Nett, PhD, Meghan Yue, BS, Nick Mathew, Greg D. Avey, MD, Tabassum A. Kennedy, MD, Aaron S. Field, MD, PhD, Staffan Holmin, MD,PhD, Hakan Almqvist, MD, Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, PhD |
| Mark Schiebler, MD | Advances in Pulmonary Vascular MRI | Optimizing the Performance and Interpretation of Thoracic MRI (Advanced) | 3:00 PM |