2025-2026 Grand Rounds Schedule

Date

Speaker

Topic
9/12/25 Stephanie Nougaret, MD, PhD, Professor/Radiologist, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194; Department of Radiology, Montpellier Cancer Institute, France

Update on Rectal Cancer
9/19/25

Bonnie Joe, MD, Professor in Residence and Chief of Breast Imaging in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco

Role of Imaging in Neoadjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
10/3/25 Myra Feldman, MD, Staff Physician, Diagnostics Imaging Institute Cleveland Clinic and Obstetrics and Gynecology Institute Cleveland Clinic; Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, CCLCM CWRU

Endometriosis Unmasked: US Screening to Precision MR Reporting
10/10/25 William S. Rilling, MD, FSIR, Professor of Radiology and Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Perspectives on the Sub-Specialization of Radiologists in the Current Healthcare Environment
10/17/25 Katherine D. Van Schaik, MD, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Vanderbilt University

Looking Through the Past Toward Skeletal Health in the Future
10/24/25 Esi Samei, PhD, Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Physics, BME, ECE, and Medical Physics; Chief Imaging Physicist, Duke University Health System; Director, Center for Virtual Imaging Trials (CVIT); Director, Carl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories (RAI Labs); Co-Director, Triangle Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (T-CERSI)

Virtual Imaging Trials
10/31/25 Carolyn Wang, MD, Medical Director of Imaging Services, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Professor of Radiology Department of Radiology, University of Washington Iodinated Contrast Media Safety Updates
11/7/25 Matthew Davenport, MD, MBA, FSAR, FSABI, FACR, William Martel Legacy Professor of Radiology, and Professor of Urology; Co-Director, Ronald Weiser Center for Prostate Cancer; Service Chief for Radiology; Vice Chair (Research, Academic Affairs, Faculty Development)

Five Things I Wished I'd Known. Lessons About Radiology And Medicine Learned From Studying Renal Masses
11/14/25 John T. Mongan, MD, PhD, Associate Chair for Translational Informatics and Professor of Clinical Radiology (Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound section) in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. Making Effective Decisions About Clinical AI
11/21/25 Desiree E. Morgan, MD, University Professor and Vice Chair Faculty Affairs, Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E Heersink School of Medicine

The New Diagnostic Radiology Oral Exam: An Update from the ABR and Opportunities for Educators’ Engagement
12/5/25 Antonella Kovic, MD PSMA: An Enzyme That Revolutionized Prostate Cancer
12/10/25

Bettina Siewert, MD Executive Vice Chair for Radiology; Vice Chair for Quality, Safety and Performance Improvement; Staff Radiologist, Abdominal Imaging and Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School 

James Rawson, MD, FACR, FAUR Vice Chair, Operations and Special Projects, Radiology: Lead for Applied Engineering and Creating Value in Clinical Operations, Center for Healthcare Delivery Science

Building a Culture of Safety

 

 

 

Improving Radiologist's Efficiency Before AI
12/17/25

Gilad Borisovsky, MD

 

Lutfullah Sari, MD

Not All the Rounded Is Rounded

Wrong Target, Right Technique: Bowel Biopsy Mishaps During Abdominal Procedures

 
1/14/2026 Drs Joshua Katz, Jonathan Nazha, Adrian Turcu, and Rokas Liubauskas BIDMC Radiology Chief Rounds
1/21/2026 David Alsop, PhD, Director of MRI Research in Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School Water Exchange MRI: A Window into Aquaporin and Glymphatic Function
1/28/2026 Drs. Anthony Formicola, Layla Kazemi, Jessica Shi, and Natalie Drew
 		 BIDMC Radiology Chief Rounds
2/4/2026

Dr. Carol Benson, MD, Radiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor, Harvard Medical School

Scott A. Shainker, DO, MS, The Annie and Chase Koch Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology; Director, New England Center for Placental Disorder, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

The Past and Future of OB/GYN Ultrasound - Maternal Fetal Medicine and Radiology Views

Progress and Advancement In MFM Prenatal Imaging: Opportunities For Collaboration
2/11/2026 Sue Francis, PhD, Professor of MR Physics, Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham

Multicenter Standardization of Renal MRI
2/18/2026

Drs. Benjamin Weaver, Leon Sun, and Michael Orlando

 BIDMC Radiology Chief Rounds
2/25/2026 Claude B. Sirlin, MD, Professor of Radiology, Director of Liver Imaging Group, Dept. of Radiology, UC San Diego

MR Quantification of Liver Fat and Liver Iron
3/4/2026

Shadi Abdar Esfahani, MD, MPH

Fibroblast Activated Protein (FAP) PET and Theranostics in Oncology
4/1/2026 Jane A. Petro, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Emeriti, New York Medical College

BIDMC - How Diverse Histories Came Together
  • Muneeb Ahmed, MD, FSIR, Named Chief of New Division of Cancer Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Chair of the Department of Imaging at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Read the full press release.
  • ​​Diana Litmanovich, MD, Named Chair of the American Heart Association's Council on Cardiovascular Radiology & Intervention.
  • Muneeb Ahmed, MD, Honored as a 2025 BIDMC/Boston Red Sox Medical All-Star​. Read more.
  • Yu-Ming Chang, MD, PhD, Awarded $60,000 in RSNA Research Seed Grant Funding​. Read more.
  • Marwan Moussa, MD, Awarded $200,000 in American Heart Association Funding​. Read more.
  • Julie Bulman, MD, Accepted into BILH Leadership Program.
  • ​Adeel Seyal, MD, and Edgar Martinez, MD, Selected to Receive 2025 Harvard Medical School Shore Fellowship Awards. Read more. 
  • Diana Litmanovich, MD, Assumes Expanded Vice Chair Role to Advance Practitioner, Practice, and Population Health Portfolio. Read more.
  • Colin J. McCarthy, MD, Awarded $60,000 RSNA Research Seed Grant.
  • Justin Kung, MD, Promoted to Executive Vice Chair of Radiology​.

  • Drs. Colin McCarthy, Seth Berkowitz, Vijay Ramalingam, and Muneeb Ahmed's journal paper — "Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot for Delivery of IR Patient Education Material: A Comparison with Societal Website Content" — Awarded One of the Most-Cited JVIR Articles in 2024.

  • Jesse Wei, MD, Appointed Inaugural Vice Chair for Radiology Informatics and Systems Operations. Read more.
  • Olga Brook, MD, MBA, Named Executive Vice Chair for Workforce Strategy and Talent Acquisition of BIDMC Radiology. Read more.
  • Katja De Paepe, MD, PhD, Appointed Inaugural Associate Residency Program Director and Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Read more.

  • Marwan Moussa, MD, Appointed Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

  • Francesca Rigiroli, MD, Appointed Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

  • Muneeb Ahmed, MD, Appointed Miriam H. Stoneman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Read more.
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2024
  • David Alsop, MD, PhD, Received a $9.1 Million Grant for Women’s Health. Read more.

  • Diana Litmanovich, MD, and Jesse Wei, MD, Appointed to Associate Chair Positions.

  • Fourie Bezuidenhout, MD, Promoted to Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

  • Jenny Cutts, MD, MBA, Appointed Radiology Vice Chair for Finance. 

  • Katja De Paepe, MD, PhD, Appointed Medical Director of Ultrasound.

  • Jeffrey Weinstein, MD, Appointed Vice Chair for Education and Lifelong Learning.

  • Robin Levenson, MD, Inducted as Fellow of the American Society of Emergency Radiology.

  • Vandana Dialani, MD, Graduates from BILH Physician Leadership Program.

  • Katja De Paepe, MD, PhD, Awarded Inaugural Herbert Kressel Scholarship for Research Innovation, and Selected to Join Academy's Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI²) Class of 2023-24.

  • Julie Bulman, MD, Promoted to Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. 

  • Vijay Ramalingam, MD, Promoted to Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. 

  • Diana Litmanovich, MD, Appointed Inaugural Vice Chair for Global Academic Relations and Accepted to the 2024-2025 SCARD-GE Healthcare Leading Empowering and Disrupting (LEAD) Program.

  • Katja De Paepe, MD, PhD, and Diana Dinh, MD, Receive 2024 Harvard Medical School Shore Fellowship Awards.

  • American Roentgen Ray Society Awards Recent Body MRI Fellowship Graduate, Miriel Handler, MD, and BIDMC Radiology Co-authors a 2024 Certificate of Merit for the ARRS Scientific Session Program.

  • Jeffrey Weinstein, MD, Selected as an Inaugural HMFP Physician Colleague Award Recipient.

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2023

  • Muneeb Ahmed, MD, was promoted to Full Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.  

  • Ammar Sarwar, MD, receives a 2023 "Best of AJR" Award in Interventional Radiology for first-author paper, "Factors Associated With Complete Pathologic Necrosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma on Explant Evaluation After Locoregional Therapy: A National Analysis Using the UNOS Database".

  • Olga Brook, MD, MBA, was selected as one of five recipients of Abdominal Radiology's prestigious "Exemplary Editor Award" for 2023.

  • Julie Bulman, MD, and Colin McCarthy, MD, were selected as 2023 Harvard Medical School Shore Fellowship recipients. 

  • Rafael Rojas, MD, received the Gold Medal Award and Recognition for Academic Excellence from the Mexican Society of Radiology and Imaging. 

  • Jeffrey Weinstein, MD, received the BIDMC Program Director Excellence Award and was appointed the Society of Interventional Radiology's President-Elect of the Association of Program Directors in Interventional Radiology. 

  • Olga Brook, MD, was named Fellow at Large on the Society for Advanced Body Imaging Board of Directors. 

  • Diana Litmanovich, MD, was selected as the recipient of the International Society of Pediatric Thoracic Imaging's International Educator Award.

  • Jim Rawson, MD, received a Gold Medal Award from the Georgia Radiology Society for his dedication and excellence over 20 years of service.  

  • Bettina Siewert, MD, was awarded a 2022 DxQI Seed Grant from the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to test interventions that can improve diagnosis quality, accuracy, and timeliness.