Ahmad Alomari, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Interventional radiology, Vascular Anomalies Center

Dr. Alomari earned his MD at the Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan. He interned at the university’s Princess Basma Teaching Hospital and then did his residency in diagnostic radiology at Jordan University Hospital in Amman. He was a fellow in vascular and interventional radiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York from 2001-02, a fellow in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital Boston in 2002-03, and a fellow in pediatric vascular and interventional radiology at Children’s from 2003-04. He is board certified in radiology.

Carol E. Barnewolt, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
General Pediatric Radiology, Ultrasound,
Genitourinary Radiology and Fetal Imaging

Dr. Barnewolt received her B.S. from Santa Clara University in California and her MD from Chicago Medical School. She then returned to California and after a transitional internship, completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of California, San Francisco-Central San Joaquin Valley Program. She did her 2-year pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Barnewolt has special interests in pediatric ultrasound, genitourinary radiology and fetal imaging. She is the Co-Director of the Division of Pediatric Ultrasound and Co-Director of the Section of Fetal Imaging.

 

Sarah Bixby, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Pediatric Radiology

Dr. Bixby received her BA from Princeton University and her MD from Vanderbilt University. She completed her radiology residency at Boston University Medical Center, and subsequently completed a pediatric radiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston. She has a special interest in pediatric musculoskeletal imaging as well as the imaging of trauma. Dr. Bixby is board certified in radiology.  

Stephen D. Brown, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Diagnostic Pediatric Radiology
Obstetrical Radiology

Dr. Brown grew up in Philadelphia and received his BA and MD from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowships in pediatric radiology and pediatric interventional radiology at Children's Hospital Boston. His clinical interests have included pediatric body imaging, obstetrical radiology and image-guided tumor ablation. Dr. Brown and his colleagues performed the first radiofrequency ablation of a renal tumor in a child. Dr. Brown has been a member of the hospital’s Ethics Advisory Committee since 2002. In 2004, he completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. He is on the staff of the Office of Ethics at Children’s Hospital Boston as an associate clinical ethicist. He has also served as the research subject advocate for ethics and education for the hospital’s General Clinical Research Center.

Dr. Brown is a member of the Harvard Ethics Leadership Council and the Professionalism Committee of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). He has made presentations on ethics and professionalism at the annual meetings of the RSNA and the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH). He has published papers on related topics in AJR, Radiology, and Pediatrics, and he has reviewed ethics-related manuscripts for Pediatrics and the European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

In 2006, Dr. Brown received a 2-year Faculty Career Development Award from Children’s Hospital Boston and was named an Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Scholar in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was a 2007 national finalist for the Greenwall Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program. In 2008, he was named the first recipient of the American Roentgen Ray Society’s Leonard Berlin Scholarship in Medical Professionalism. His interests include the ethical implications of innovations in maternal-fetal care, research ethics, professionalism, and conflicts of interest.


 

Carlo Buonomo, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Co-Director of the Pediatric Radiology Fellowship Program
Gastrointestinal Radiology, Abdominal Imaging

Dr. Buonomo received his BA from Yale University and his MD from the University of Maryland. After completing his internship and residency in diagnostic radiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he was a fellow for two years at Children's Hospital in Boston. His interests include gastrointestinal radiology and neonatal radiology.


 

Michael J. Callahan, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Co-Director of the Pediatric Radiology Fellowship Program
Chief, Division of Computed Tomography

Dr. Callahan was born in Syracuse, New York. He received his BS from Hobart College and his MD from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. He completed his radiology residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, and his pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston, where he served as second-year chief fellow. His particular interests include cross-sectional imaging applications in children with gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal disorders. Dr. Callahan joined the faculty in 2002, after completing his fellowship. He is currently the section head of computed tomography, and co-director of the fellowship program.


 

Gulraiz Chaudry, MB, ChB
Instructor in Radiology
Pediatric and Interventional Radiologist

Dr. Chaudry received his MB and ChB (bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery) degrees from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman hospitals, Newcastle, UK, obtaining the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (Pediatrics)(MRCP). This was followed by a residency in diagnostic radiology at the Birmingham Radiology Training Scheme in the UK, where he received his Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR).

Dr. Chaudry later completed a two-year subspecialty fellowship training in pediatric diagnostic and interventional radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and joined the radiology department at Children's Hospital Boston in 2006 as a vascular and interventional radiologist. His special areas of interest are vascular anomalies and GI intervention. He is board certified in radiology.

 

Jeanne San-yu (Mei-Mei) Chow, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Dr. Chow received her BA from Brown University and her MD from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. After completing her residency in diagnostic radadiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, she was a fellow for two years at Children's Hospital in Boston. Her interests include genitourinary radiology and prenatal imaging.


 

Robert H. Cleveland, MD
Professor of Radiology
Chest, Neonatal Imaging and General Pediatric Radiology

Dr. Cleveland received his BA from the University of Texas at Austin and MD from the University of Texas at Galveston. He completed his residency training in radiology at SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y., and fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children's Hospital Boston. Following the completion of his fellowship, Dr. Cleveland joined the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital where he remained for 13 years. He returned to Children's Hospital in 1991. His areas of special interest are neonatal and chest imaging.


 

Susan A. Connolly, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Musculoskeletal Radiology
Chief, Section of Ultrasound

Dr. Connolly received her BS from Seton Hall University in New Jersey and her MD from Georgetown University. She completed her radiology residency at New England Deaconess Hospital and subsequently did a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. She has a special interest in pediatric musculoskeletal radiology.


 

Amy Danehy, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology

Dr. Danehy received a Bachelor of Music in performance from Vanderbilt University. She earned her MD and did her internship and diagnostic radiology residency at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. Dr. Danehy was a fellow in general pediatric radiology and pediatric neuroradiology at Children’s Hospital Boston from 2002-04. Her interests include diagnostic neuroangiography and procedures. She is board certified in radiology.

 

Laura A. Drubach, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Nuclear Medicine/PET
Emergency Medicine

Dr. Drubach earned her MD at the University Del Salvador in Buenos Aires. She trained in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and in pediatric nuclear medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston, where she was a fellow in 1996-97. She is board certified in pediatric emergency medicine and nuclear medicine.

 

Kirsten Ecklund, MD
Chief, Division of Diagnostic Radiology    
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Director of Body MR Imaging
General Pediatric Radiology, Musculoskeletal and Oncologic Radiology


Dr. Ecklund received her BS from the University of Michigan and her MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. After an internal medicine internship at Boston University Hospital, she completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston and a pediatric radiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital, Boston where she served as chief fellow. She returned to Children’s as a staff radiologist in 1997. Her special interests are in pediatric musculoskeletal disorders, and oncologic imaging.

 

Judy A. Estroff, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Ultrasound and General Pediatric Radiology

Dr. Estroff received her BA from the University of Michigan and her MD from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed a year of pediatrics at UCSF, followed by a radiology residency at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, and two years of fellowship training in pediatric radiology at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Estroff was on the faculty of Boston University for one year, returning to Children's Hospital in 1988. Dr. Estroff's areas of interest include obstetric, neonatal and pediatric ultrasound.

 

Rick Fair, MD
Instructor in Radiology

Dr. Fair has recently returned to join the faculty at Children’s Hospital after 12 years in the United States Navy, most recently as the pediatric radiologist at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA. He received his undergraduate degree from Denison University and his MD from The Ohio State University. Rick completed his residency in radiology at the Naval Medical Center San Diego in 1997 and was a fellow in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital Boston from 1999-2000. His interests include radiology education and general pediatric radiology.

 

Frederick D. Grant, MD
Instructor in Pediatrics, Radiology
Nuclear Medicine/PET

Dr. Grant earned his MD from the State University of New York College of Medicine in Syracuse, N.Y. He interned and did his residency at the hospitals of the University Health Center, Pittsburgh. He was a Fellow in Nuclear Medicine in the Harvard Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston and in endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is board certified in nuclear medicine, internal medicine, and endocrinology.  

Annamaria Golja, MD
Director, Resident Education
Instructor in Radiology

Dr. Golja received her BS from Binghamton University in New York. She completed medical school and her first year of surgery internship at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. She went on to spend one year at Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania in a radiology residency and then returned to Downstate to complete the radiology residency. She completed her pediatric radiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston and then specialized in pediatric neuroradiology during her second year.

 

N. Thorne Griscom, MD
Professor of Radiology
General Pediatric Radiology, Neonatal Radiology and Pulmonary Radiology

Dr. Griscom received his BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. His pediatric and radiology residencies were at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Griscom is past secretary, past president and past chairman of the board of directors of The Society for Pediatric Radiology. He has been president and chairman of the board of directors of the New England Roentgen Ray Society. He has been associate editor of Radiology and has won that journal’s Editor Recognition Award. He has been an associate editor of Pediatric Radiology and a consulting editor for the American Journal of Roentgenology. He reviews or has reviewed manuscripts for Radiology, the American Journal of Roentgenology, Pediatric Radiology, and seven other journals. He was co-recipient of the Caffey Award of The Society for Pediatric Radiology in 1972.

Dr. Griscom is author or co-author of 175 papers, chapters in books, and review articles. He has given review courses in pediatric radiology or invited lectures or has been a visiting professor in Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Austria, Brazil, and Turkey, plus many places in Canada and the United States. Dr. Griscom has a particular interest in chest disease in infants and children. He has made a special effort to assist others in preparing and editing their scientific manuscripts for publication. He gave the Caldwell Lecture, entitled "Respiratory Problems of Early Life Now Allowing Survival into Adulthood" to the American Roentgen Ray Society in 1991. He gave the Centennial-Hartman Lecture, entitled "A Century of Pediatric Radiology", to the Washington meeting of The Society for Pediatric Radiology in April, 1995. He also gave the Kirkpatrick Lecture, entitled "A History of Radiology at Children's Hospital, Boston" in July, 1995. He has given 13 other named lectures.

Dr. Griscom was the Associate Editor of the third edition (1997) of Kirks' Practical Pediatric Imaging, and edited the seminar on radiation reduction held at the 2002 meeting of The Society for Pediatric Radiology. In 1997 he was made an honorary member of the European Society of Pediatric Radiology. He also won the first annual Friends of the House Staff Award at Children’s HospitalBoston, the Kirkpatrick Teaching Award of the Department of Radiology, and the Gold Medal of The Society for Pediatric Radiology. The new Education Award of The Society for Pediatric Radiology was named for him.

 

 

Paul K. Kleinman, MD
Director, Musculoskeletal Imaging  
Professor of Radiology

Dr. Kleinman received his BA from Boston University and MD from the State University of New York, Brooklyn. He completed pediatric and radiology residencies and pediatric radiology fellowship at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. He was the director of pediatric radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center for more than 20 years, joining the staff at Children's Hospital in 2002. His academic interests span a broad spectrum of pediatric imaging, in particular musculoskeletal diseases. A major focus has been in the area of child abuse and its imitators. He has published numerous of articles and has lectured widely on this subject in the US, Europe and South America. Dr. Kleinman serves on the editorial board of several radiology journals and is the director of the Imaging Center for Child Abuse and Neglect.

 

Robert L. Lebowitz, MD
Professor of Radiology

Dr. Lebowitz was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received his AB degree from Harvard College and his MD from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. After a pediatric residency at Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, he served for two years in the U.S. Army in Japan. His radiology residency was at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, and his pediatric radiology training was at Children's Hospital Boston.

Dr. Lebowitz is past secretary-treasurer and past president of the Society of Uroradiology, past treasurer and past president of the New England Roentgen Ray Society as well as past president of Temple Shalom in Newton, Mass. He is past president of The Society for Pediatric Radiology and past Chairman of its Board of Directors. He is an honorary member of both the European Society of Pediatric Radiology and the Australasian Society of Pediatric Imaging. He is author of Postoperative Pediatric Uroradiology.

Dr. Lebowitz has also served as coordinator of radiology for the International Reflux Study in Children, on the Admission Committee for Harvard Medical School, has examined candidates for the American Board of Radiology and has twice received the Kirkpatrick Award for outstanding teaching. He was a member of the Task Force for Quality Assurance of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has been a member of the Hospital’s Ethics Advisory Council. He has a Certificate with Added Qualifications in Pediatric Radiology from the American Board of Radiology. Dr. Lebowitz has run the Boston Marathon twice and is still able, on occasion, to run to and from work. Dr. Lebowitz's major interest is pediatric uroradiology.

 

Edward Y. Lee, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Dr. Lee received his AB and MD from the University of Chicago. During his second year of medical school at the University of Chicago, he was accepted to an MD/MPH joint degree program between the University of Chicago and Harvard University. He received the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the Harvard School of Public Health with a concentration in International Health. He completed an internal medicine internship at the Harvard Medical Center (Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital/Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute). His radiology residency was at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (Washington University Medical Center). Upon completion of his radiology residency, he returned to Boston where he completed one year of pediatric radiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston. During the fellowship, he served as chief fellow and subsequently became a staff radiologist in July 2005. His current academic focus is on pediatric chest imaging in order to provide the best health care to pediatric patients through developing new imaging techniques and modalities.

 

Roy McCauley, MD

Dr. McCauley received his Medical degree from the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He completed a transitional internship and radiology residency there, followed by a year in the Department of Radiology at University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. His Pediatric Radiology Fellowship was at the Tufts-New England Medical Center’s Floating Hospital for Children. He eventually became chief of pediatric radiology there and a professor of radiology at the Tufts University School of Medicine. He joined the faculty of Children's Hospital Boston in 2006. His interests include neonatal radiology and ultrasound imaging.

 

Robert V. Mulkern, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Associate Director, Scientific, MRI Division

Dr. Mulkern received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from Cornell University. He received a PhD in physics from Brown University, where he pursued magnetic resonance (MR) studies of condensed matter. He became a cancer training fellow in 1986 and began studying and developing MR techniques for medical applications. His current interests include rapid imaging and spectroscopic imaging methods, MR relaxation and water diffusion properties in tissue, and the development of MR-guided interventional procedures.

 

Darren B. Orbach, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Director of Neurointerventional Radiology

Neurointerventional Radiology, Pediatric Cerebrovascular Disease, Extracranial Head and Neck Vascular Disease, Functional MR/EEG Dr. Orbach received his BA from Princeton University, his MD from Cornell University Medical College, and his PhD from Rockefeller University.  He completed a seven-year combined training program in neurology, diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology, followed by a neurointerventional radiology fellowship, all at New York University Medical Center. He is board certified in diagnostic radiology, neuroradiology and neurology.

Dr. Orbach has special interest in pediatric cerebrovascular disease, including arteriovenous shunts (AVMs and fistulas), cerebral aneurysms and stroke, as well as extracranial vascular disease, such as facial AVM’s and vascular anomalies.  His research interests include the use of MRI and EEG to directly image electromagnetic signals from brain activity.    

Alan B. Packard, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Senior Research Associate in Nuclear Medicine

Dr. Packard received his BS in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire and PhD in inorganic chemistry from Colorado State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow with E.A. Deutsch at the University of Cincinnati and an assistant scientist in the Medical Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory before coming to Children's Hospital. Dr. Packard's principal research interests are the development of transition-metal based radiopharmaceuticals for PET and SPECT and the application of transition metals to biomedical problems.

 

Horacio Padua, MD
Instructor in Radiology

Dr. Padua received his BS in electrical engineering at the University of Rochester and his MD from New York Medical College. Prior to medical school, he was a programmer/analyst in the radiology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He did his radiology residency at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont, and his pediatric diagnostic and interventional radiology fellowships at Children’s Hospital Boston. Dr. Padua divides his time between diagnostic and interventional radiology.

 

Harriet J. Paltiel, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Body Imaging
Director, Medical Student Education
Director, Visiting Professor Program

Dr. Paltiel received her L. Mus and MDCM from McGill University in Montreal. After a rotating internship in Montreal she trained for one year in Anatomical Pathology at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and for one year in Internal Medicine at Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. After a residency in diagnostic radiology at McGill University Teaching Hospitals, she completed a two-year fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Paltiel's particular interests are pediatric ultrasonography, vascular anomalies and genitourinary disorders.

 

Jeannette Perez-Rossello, MD
Instructor in Radiology

Dr. Perez-Rossello’s clinical focus is musculoskeletal imaging, and her primary research interest lies in bone density disparities in children across ethnic groups. She holds a BS degree in Biology and Society from Cornell University where she was also inducted into the Quill & Dagger Honor Society for exemplary service to the university. Dr. Perez-Rossello received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed her radiology residency training at Mount Auburn Hospital, earning the Roentgen Ray Resident Research Award. She completed a pediatric radiology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston. She is now co-director of Outpatient Radiology Services and is interested in the quality of outpatient services and technical advances in teleradiology.

Dr. Perez-Rossello is a lecturer in the Pediatric Radiology elective at Harvard Medical School and a member of her department’s Graduate Medical Education Committee. She serves on the Workflow, Quality Assurance, Outpatient Facilities Planning, and Applications Maximizing Patient Safety Committees. In addition, Dr. Perez-Rossello is exploring ways to improve imaging protocols to evaluate children suspected of abuse and was appointed to the Child Abuse Committee of The Society of Pediatric Radiology.

 

Tina Young Poussaint, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Director of Neuroimaging Center, Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
Director of Pediatric Neuroradiology Fellowship
Coordinator for Neurooncologic Imaging

Dr. Poussaint was born in Rochester, New York. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MD from Yale University School of Medicine. After an internship in pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital, she completed residency training in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. After serving on staff in neuroradiology at MGH, she joined the faculty at Children's Hospital. Her special interests include neuro-MRI, neuro-oncology, and the phakomatoses.

 

Richard L. Robertson, Jr., MD
Associate Professor of  Radiology
Vice chair, Radiology Informatics
Chief, Division of Neuroradiology
Acting Chief, Interventional Radiology

Dr. Robertson received his BA from the University of Virginia and his MD from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He trained in diagnostic radiology and completed a fellowship in neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Following completion of his fellowship he was a staff neuroradiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital for one year prior to joining the Division of Neuroradiology at Children's Hospital. He has been the Director of Neuroradiology at Children’s since 2000. His area of special interest is cerebrovascular disease in children.

 

Caroline D. Robson, MB, ChB
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Radiology
Chief, Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Director of Head and Neck Imaging

Dr. Robson received her MB, ChB from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa, and received her FFRadD[SA] from the College of Medicine in South Africa. She worked from 1990-1993 as a consultant pediatric radiologist at Red Cross Children's Hospital, South Africa, before moving to the United States.

Dr. Robson, who is certified by the American Board of Radiology with Certificate of Added Qualification in Neuroradiology, completed a fellowship in pediatric neuroradiology at Children's Hospital Boston before joining the neuroradiology staff. She is division chief of MR and director of Head and Neck imaging. Her area of special interest is pediatric head and neck imaging and fetal neuroimaging.



 

Diana Rodriguez, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Pediatric Radiology, Neuroradiology

Dr. Rodriguez earned her MD and completed her internship and residency in diagnostic radiology at Rosario University in Bogota, Colombia. After practicing as a general radiologist in Colombia, she came to Children’s Hospital as a research fellow in pediatric radiology and also completed a second-year fellowship in pediatric neuroradiology. She joined the faculty in July 2006 and serves in both the Body and Neuroradiology sections. Her special interests include neurooncology.
 

Laureen M. Sena, MD
Instructor in Radiology

Dr. Sena received her BS from Simmons College and her MD from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She then completed radiology residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, followed by subspecialty training in pediatric radiology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. After three years as a staff pediatric radiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she joined the staff at Children's Hospital in 2000. Her special interests include cardiac imaging with MRI and CT.



 

V. Michelle Silvera, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Pediatric Radiology, Neuroradiology

Dr. Silvera received her M.D. from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. After an internal medicine internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,  she completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and a neuroradiology fellowship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston. 

She was a staff neuroradiologist (adult and pediatric) at the Institute for Neurology and Neuroradiology in New York for five years, and returned to Children's Hospital Boston in 2004. Her areas of special interest are pediatric neuroradiology and neurooncology. She is board certified in radiology and neuroradiology.  

Keith J. Strauss, MSc
Instructor in Radiology
Director, Radiology Physics and Engineering

Mr. Strauss grew up in Indiana and received his BA in physics from Manchester College in Indiana and his M.Sc. in radiologic physics from the University of Chicago. Mr. Strauss was certified by the ABR as a Diagnostic Radiological Physicist in 1980, by the American Board of Medical Physics (ABMP) in diagnostic imaging physics in 1990, became a fellow in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in 1999, and a fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR) in 2006. He is responsible for all aspects of imaging physics and the in-house repair and maintenance of the department's imaging equipment.

Mr. Strauss’s efforts are focused on optimal image quality at minimum dose levels for children, equipment acquisition and acceptance testing, facility planning issues, and efficient equipment maintenance and repairs. He works extensively on task groups and committees of the ACR, AAPM, and Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD). Prior to coming to Children's Hospital Boston, Mr. Strauss worked in a similar capacity for eight years in adult radiology at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. He has served as a physicist consultant at a number of pediatric and adult hospitals in the US and for the American Children's Hospital (Project HOPE in Krakow, Poland).

 

George A. Taylor, MD
John A. Kirkpatrick Professor of Radiology
Radiologist-in-Chief


Dr. Taylor grew up in Latin America, and speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently. He received both his BS and MD degrees from The George Washington University, completed residencies in Pediatrics and Radiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at Children's Hospital Boston. He is on the editorial boards of 11 journals in radiology and pediatrics, and has won the Editor's Recognition Award With Distinction from the journal Radiology nine times. In addition, he has received teaching awards from the Pediatrics and Radiology house staff, and the Bronze, Silver, and Caffey awards of The Society for Pediatric Radiology. He has published more than 200 original articles, reviews, and book chapters. His research interests include: hemodynamic disturbances in neonatal cerebrovascular injury; development of ultrasound contrast agents for non-invasive quantification of solid organ perfusion; and clinical outcomes research in pediatric imaging.

Donald A. Tracy, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Tufts University School of Medicine


Dr. Tracy earned his BA from Yale University and his MD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine. He trained in diagnostic radiology at the University of California, San Francisco and in nuclear medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine. He is also on staff at the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.  

 

S. Ted Treves, MD
Professor of Radiology
Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine

Dr. Treves is the Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He received his MD from the University of Buenos Aires. He trained in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology at the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and at Yale Medical School in New Haven. He joined Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School in 1970 and developed the clinical and research nuclear medicine programs at Children's Hospital.

Dr. Treves has authored over 200 original reports, over 60 review articles and book chapters, and a textbook, Pediatric Nuclear Medicine (Springer-Verlag, 2nd edition, 1995). Dr. Treves is a member of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. He is chairman of the Nuclear Medicine Committee of The Society for Pediatric Radiology. Dr. Treves is a member of editorial boards of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine. He is a recipient of the George V. Taplin Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine. He is a member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Dr. Treves is interested in electronic imaging, multimedia communications, systems integration, pediatric nuclear medicine and radiopharmaceutical research.

 

Stephan D. Voss, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Dr. Voss was raised in Marshfield, Wisc. He graduated with honors from Princeton University and then spent two years at the University of Heidelberg doing research as a Fulbright Scholar. He then returned to the University of Wisconsin and completed his doctorate and attended medical school.

Dr. Voss came to Boston to continue his research in cancer biology and gene therapy. He completed a radiology residency at the New England Deaconess Hospital and did his pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.

 

 

 

Valerie L. Ward, MD
Instructor in Radiology

Dr. Ward received her AB from Harvard University and MD from Yale University School of Medicine. She completed an internal medicine internship at Beth Israel Hospital, a diagnostic radiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston. She served as chief fellow at Children's Hospital, becoming a staff radiologist in July 2000. Her interests include fetal imaging, dose reduction in pediatric imaging, and health services research in radiology.

Dr. Ward was a 2001 recipient of the Society for Pediatric Radiology’s Young Investigator Award, and a 2002 recipient of the General Electric-Association of University Radiologists Radiology Research Academic Fellowship. This two-year award funds Dr. Ward and her co-investigators to study fetal chest masses with magnetic resonance imaging. Currently, Dr. Ward is a 2004 recipient of the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship.

 

 

 

Simon K. Warfield, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Director, Computational Radiology Laboratory

Dr. Warfield received his undergraduate degrees in computer science and electrical engineering and his PhD in computer science and engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

In 1996, he joined Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he developed advanced algorithms for quantitative image analysis, with application to newborn MRI, MRI of patients with multiple sclerosis, and real-time registration techniques for image-guided surgery.

Dr. Warfield joined Children's Hospital in 2007, focusing his research interests on medical image computing for pediatric applications. He has developed innovative algorithms to address the requirements of clinical care and translational research in medicine. His research supports quantitative image analysis and image-guided surgery. This has enabled neurosurgeons to visualize functional MRI and diffusion tensor MRI acquired before surgery in precise alignment with the patient’s brain, as the brain shifts over the course of surgery for epilepsy or brain tumors.

Dr. Warfield is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He serves on the editorial board of Medical Image Analysis, is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and regularly reviews for the major journals in the field. He has received the Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation from the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), holds a prestigious International Fellowship from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CISRO), and has been awarded an Australia-Harvard Fellowship from the Harvard Club of Australia, among other honors.