Morris Simon Research Day

Award	Recipient	Mentor	Title
Best Overall Research Abstract	Huiyu Huang	Sal Soman	Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Based Susceptibility Changes in Diabetes Suggestive of Patterns of Brain Injury in the Boston Puerto Rican Healthy Study (BPRHS)
Best Fellow Research Abstract	Noel Delgado	Fourie Bezuidenhout	Presence of a Feeding Artery as an Indicator of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer
Best Resident Research Abstract	Olivia DiPrete	Vandana Dialani	Management of Mammographic Architectural Distortion Based on DCE-MRI and Ultrasound Correlation
Best Quality Improvement Project Abstract	Yuval Liberman	Diana Litmanovich	New Imaging Protocol to Assess ET Tube Placement
Best Basic Science Research Abstract	Narjes Jaafar	David Alsop	Assessment of Renal Water Exchange by T2 Selective Labeling
Best Translational Research Presentation	Narjes Jaafar	David Alsop	Assessment of Renal Water Exchange by T2 Selective Labeling
Best Outcomes Improvement Presentation	Sheikh Muhammad Usman Shami	Ammar Sarwar	Safety and Efficacy of Early Primary Stent Placement for Hepatic Artery Stenosis in Liver Transplant Recipients
Best Tech Development Presentation	Noel Delgado	Fourie Bezuidenhout	Presence of a Feeding Artery as an Indicator of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer

2024 Cum Laude Awards

Recipient	Mentor	Title
Ali Erkin	Sahil Mehta	Implementation of a Standardized Written Post-Operative Communication Process for Interventional Radiology Inpatient Procedures
Blake Foster	Sal Soman	Assessing Image Quality and Morphometry Measurements after Application of Deep Learning to MPRAGE Acquisitions
Faisal Al Bahrani	Karen Lee	Timely Follow-Up of Non-Emergent Findings Detected on CT Abdomen and Pelvis Exams Performed in the Emergency Room and Influencing Factors
Jessica Shi	Marwan Moussa	Role of Cryoablation in the Management of Rare Benign Painful Bone Lesions
John Mach	Yu-Ming Chang	Accuracy of Preoperative CT and MRI in Determining Calvarial Invasion in the Setting of Scalp Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers; an Institutional Analysis
Scott Tseng	Olga Brook	Sterile Gown and Drape, and Bouffant Cap for Thyroid FNA: Preventing Infections while educing Unnecessary Medical Waste
Leah Ahn	Josephina Vossen (VCU)	Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: Comparative Study of Radiographic Outcomes of the Superolateral vs. Deltopectoral Approach Radiographic Outcomes
Mahsa Alborzi Avanaki	Donnella Comeau	Evaluating Diffusion Tensor Imaging Along the Perivascular Space (DTI-ALPS) in Relation to Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)
Miriel Handler	Olga Brook	Validation and Utility of Radiology-Pathology Concordance Categories for Ultrasound-Guided Targeted Liver Biopsies
Muhammad Mohid Tahir	Ammar Sarwar	First-Line Yttrium-90 Transarterial Radioembolization for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
Nardine Mikhail	Janet Baum, Sughra Raza	Normal Range of Lymph Node Cortical Thickness in African American Women
Nicole Kim	Julie Bulman	The Impact of Superior Hypogastric Nerve Block on Admissions after Elective Uterine Artery Embolization
Oussama Metrouh	Jeffrey Weinstein	The Effect of Time Pressure on the Motion Economy and Smoothness of Interventional Radiology Trainees
Rajiv Pradeep Vyas	Sal Soman	Using Oxygen Extraction Fraction for Distinguishing Multiple Sclerosis from Non-MS FLAIR White Matter Lesions
Sepideh Abdi	David Hackney	Inpatients' Status Post Radiation Therapy for Spinal Metastases, Vertebral Body Conformation Predicts Subsequent Fracture Risk
Shreyas Balaji	Sal Soman	Assessing the Visibility of Nigrosome-1 in Lower Resolution mcTFI QSM Imaging: Implications for Parkinson's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Susana Creagh Reyes	Sal Soman	Editorial for “Automatic Segmentation and Quantification of Nigrosome-1 Neuromelanin and Iron in MRI: A Candidate Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease”
Tim Sotman	Seth Berkowitz	Machine Learning Approaches to CT and MRI Protocol Assignment: Comparison of Foundation and Fine-Tuned Large Language Models with a Conventional Classifier
Lutfullah Sari	Olga Brook	Radiology-Pathology Correlation: A Safeguard Against Missed Cancer Diagnosis in CT-Guided Omental and Mesenteric Biopsies
Vishaal Gudla	Fourie Bezuidenhout	CT Imaging Findings Following Treatment with Combination SBRT and Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Meghavi Mashar	Katja De Paepe	Assessment of the Hepatic Lymphatics in Chronic Liver Disease on Routine CT: A Preliminary Study
Zeynep Nur Akyol Sari	Diana Litmanovich	Coronary Artery Plaque Characteristics in Women with Suspected CAD – Detailed Analysis of Plaque Composition and Vulnerability

2024 Outstanding Mentor Awards

Dr. Diana Litmanovich
Dr. Ammar Sarwar
Dr. Salil Soman
Dr. Olga Brook
Dr. Donnella Comeau

2023 Trainee Research Awards

Awardee	Award	Title
Spencer Degerstedt, MD	Best Overall	Percutaneous CT-Guided Cryoablation for Locally-Recurrent Prostate Cancer: Technical Feasibility, Safety, and Efficacy.
Qianhui Dou, MD	Basic Research	Characterizing Variable Glycolytic Activity in HCC Subtypes with Hyperpolarized 13C-MRI: Correlation with Mass Spectrometry.
Francesca Rigiroli, MD	Best Fellow	Routine Radiology-Pathology Concordance Evaluation of CT-Guided Percutaneous Lung Biopsies Increases the Number of Cancers Identified.
Dhiraj Sikaria, MD	Best Resident	Do We Need To Gown Up for Paracentesis? Impact of Protective Equipment Utilization on Infection Rate.
Jared Alswang, MD	Cum Laude	Utility of Intraoperative Neural Monitoring as a Method of Passive Thermoprotection in Musculoskeletal and Lymph Node Metastasis Cryoablations.
Nhi Vo, MD	Cum Laude	Achieving Prescribed Tumor Absorbed Dose in Radiation Segmentectomy With Resin Microspheres for HCC: Quantitative PET/CT Analysis.
Charissa Kim, MD, PhD	Cum Laude	Larger Number of Samples Does Not Increase Pneumothorax and Perilesional Hemorrhage Rates in CT-Guided Lung Biopsies for Suspected Lung Cancer.
Yuval Liberman, MD	Cum Laude	Calcium Score Alone Is a Reliable Predictor of Significant Coronary Artery Disease in Pre-Solid Organ Transplant Patients.
Yuval Liberman, MD	Cum Laude	Could Coronary Artery Calcium Score Be a Reliable Predictor of Coronary Artery Stenosis in Women?
Muhammad Mohid Tahir, MD	Cum Laude	First-Line Yttrium-90 Transarterial Radioembolization for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.
Mohamed Fargahly, MD	Cum Laude	Effect of Anti-Inflammatory and Chemotherapy Drugs on Lymphocyte Infiltration Into the Periablational Rim and Remote Non-Ablated Tumor After Ablation.
Aurelija Liubauske, MD	Cum Laude	Comparing Radiation Dose and Image Quality in Modulated and Non-Modulated CTPA in Pregnant and Reproductive-Age Women.
Constance Chang, MD	Best Oral Presentation	McTfi QSM Versus SWI / SWI Phase Cerebral Microbleed (CMB) Reader Study Results: Greater Reader Agreement and Confidence for Diagnosing CMBs Versus Calcification, and Susceptibility Values for Distinguishing CMB From Calcification.
Miriel Handler, MD	Cum Laude	Validation and Utility of Radiology-Pathology Concordance Categories for Ultrasound-Guided Targeted Liver Biopsies.
Sara Babapour, MD	Cum Laude	Post-Treatment Tracking of Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema With MRI.
Charissa Kim, MD, PhD	Cum Laude	Missed Cancer Diagnosis Rate in CT-Guided Core Lung Biopsies With a Histopathologic Finding of Organizing Pneumonia.
Muhammad Saad Malik, MD	Cum Laude	Radiation Segmentectomy With Resin Microspheres for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Nhi Vo, MD	Cum Laude	Highest INR in 3 Months Preceding Ultrasound-Guided Liver Biopsy Is a Better Predictor of Bleeding Than the Most Recent INR.
Muhammad Mohid Tahir, MD	Cum Laude	Safety and Efficacy of Overdilation of 10 mm Viatorr Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Stents Using 12 mm Balloons.
Mohamed Farghaly Ramadan Bakheet, MD	Cum Laude	Effect of Anti-Inflammatory and Chemotherapy Drugs on Macrophage Infiltration Into the Periablational Rim and Remote Non-Ablated Tumor After Ablation.
Francesca Rigiroli, MD	Cum Laude	Predicting Outcomes of Patients With Pneumatosis Intestinalis on CT Based on a Combination of Clinical and Radiological Factors.
Francesca Rigiroli, MD	Cum Laude	Validation of Node Reporting and Data System 1.0 (Node-RADS) on Abdominal Lymphadenopathy Dataset.
Muhammad Mohid Tahir, MD	Cum Laude	Transarterial Radioembolization With Yttrium-90 Resin Microspheres and MIRD Dosimetry for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Tumor in Vein.
Maram Aljuaid, MD	Cum Laude	Management of Concordant Biopsy Proven Benign Architectural Distortion Without Atypia. Does Imaging Follow-Up Suffice?

2023 Outstanding Mentor Awardees

Olga Brook, MD
Diana Litmanovich, MD
Ammar Sarwar, MD
Salil Soman, MD
Leo Tsai, MD, PhD

Previous Morris Simon Faculty Awards

2021	The Morris Simon, MD, Award for Impactful Innovations in Health Services Research	Ammar Sarwar, MD
2020	The Morris Simon, MD, Award for Research Innovation	Gopal Varma, PhD
2019	The Morris Simon, MD, Award for Research Innovation	Salil Soman, MD
2018	The Morris Simon, MD, Award for Clinical Innovation	Olga R. Brook, MD, MBA
2017	The Morris Simon, MD, Award for Clinical Innovation	Leo Tsai, MD, PhD

Previous Morris Simon Trainee Awards

2021	The Morris Simon, MD, Award for Impactful Innovations in Health Services Research	Melissa Tannenbaum, MD
2020	The Morris Simon, MD, Resident Research Award	Kyuwon Lee, MD
	The Morris Simon, MD, Award for Excellence in Health Services Research	Laura Semine-Misbach, MD
	The Morris Simon, MD, Fellow Research Award	Qianhui Dou, MD, PhD
2019	The Morris Simon, MD, Resident Award for Innovation	Michael Subrize, MD
	The Morris Simon, MD, Resident Award for Innovation	Brian Y. Zhao, MD
2018	The Morris Simon, MD, Resident Award for Innovation	Alexei Kudla, MD
2017	The Morris Simon, MD, Trainee Award for Innovation	Tom Anderson, MD

Previous Morris Simon Research Sabbaticals

2023	Olga R. Brook, MD, MBA
2021	Victoria Chernyak, MD
2018	Leo Tsai, MD, PhD
2017	Ammar Sarwar, MD

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