Radiology Department

Educational Programs

• Radiology Residency Program

• 4th Year Electives for Medical Students

Clinical Activities

The department of radiology at Baystate Medical Center provides a broad array of multimodality and subspecialty services to the Baystate health system. Modalities include plain radiography, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, mammography and interventional radiology. Subspecialty services include pediatric radiology, neuroradiology, cardiac imaging, interventional radiology and breast imaging.

In-house faculty coverage extends from 7 a.m. until midnight every day. Coverage from midnight until 7 a.m. includes an in-house radiology resident with faculty available via teleradiology.

Research Activities

Scholarly activities within the department have resulted in more than 10 papers at a published or accepted for publication in 2006-2007. 5 abstracts were accepted for presentation at RSNA 2008 in neuroradiology, body imaging, musculoskeletal imaging and PET/CT. Radiology residents are allotted a 4-week rotation in research to facilitate completion of presentations and publications, in accordance with the ACGME requirement.

FACULTY

Administration

Laurie Gianturco, MD, Interim Chair

Education

Stephen O'Connor, MD, Director, Radiology Residency Program

Tara Catanzano, MD, Associate Director, Radiology Residency Program

Divisions

All faculty members participate in more than one subspecialty section within the department of radiology. Each member spends the majority of their time within 2 or 3 specific areas of proven expertise and interest.  The vast majority of our faculty members are Fellowship trained in one or more areas.  All faculty members are ABR certified and all CAQ-eligible faculty members carry ABR subspecialty certification (neuroradiology, pediatric radiology and interventional radiology).

Body Imaging & General Diagnosis Lawrence H. Goodman, MD—Chief, Thoracic Imaging Mark d’Avignon, MD Wayne J. Gilbertie, MD Mario Grosso, MD Rhett D. Krause, MD Christopher C. Moore, MD, PhD—Chief, Cardiac Imaging Eckart Sachsse, MD Michael E. Swirsky, MD Carlos M. Valdes, MD Breast Imaging Vivian I. Miller, MD—Interim Chief Emergency Radiology Khaldoon Al Dulaimy, MD Interventional Radiology Aram V. Fereshetian, MD—Chief Lisa Sebastyn, RB, PA-C

Musculoskeletal Imaging Jehangir J. Patel, MD—Chief Michael Habeeb, MD Neuroradiology Richard J. Hicks, MD—Chief Eugene Kang, MD Shan Li, MD Paul B. Markarian, MD Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Steve Allen, MD—Interim Chief Laurie E. Gianturco, MD Thomas H. Parker, MD James P. Polga, MD Pediatric Radiology Stanley M. Polansky, MD—Chief Tara Catanzano, MD Stephen C. O’Connor, MD