Dr. Sarah E. Schroeppel DeBacker

Dr. Sarah E. Schroeppel DeBacker

Associate Program Director, IR Integrated and Independent Residencies, BIDMC
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Dr. Sarah E. Schroeppel DeBacker

Associate Program Director, IR Integrated and Independent Residencies, BIDMC

2025

  • 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.

2024

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  • 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.

2023

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  • 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. 

2022

  • 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.