News Announcements

The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences are thrilled to welcome Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR as the newly appointed Section Chief of Interventional Radiology effective November 1, 2015. A strong clinician and teacher, Banovac comes to us from Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC.  

Our Faculty Spotlight section includes an interview with Dr. Dan Brown, Director of Interventional Oncology, a subspecialty within Interventional Radiology (IR).When we surveyed current 4th-year students, asking them which specialties they wish they had obtained more exposure to during medical school, the most popular answers were Interventional Radiology (IR) and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). We are therefore very grateful that Dr.

During the Crossroads of Radiology, ACR 2015™ meeting in Washington DC this week, Dr. Marta Hernanz-Schulman, our Pediatric Section Chief and Medical Director of Diagnostic Imaging at the MCJCHV, had the opportunity to meet former United States Secretary of State and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Colin L.

Twenty-eight retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony May 8, when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Two of them were from the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences.

Lisa Kachnic, M.D., professor and chair of Radiation Oncology and associate director of Multidisciplinary Cancer Research at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and chief of Radiation Oncology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named the new professor and chair of the Vanderbilt Department of Radiation Oncology. She will join the faculty on Sept. 21.