SRUF Early Career Grant Recipients

The SRU Research Committee recently held the first SRU Early Career Grant Review process led by Dr. Arthur Fleischer (Chair) and Dr. Manjiri Dighe (Vice Chair). The SRU Foundation Seed Grant is intended to assist investigators in defining objectives and testing hypotheses before they apply for major grants from corporations, foundations or government agencies.

David T. Fetzer, MD, FSRU from University Of Texas

Phantom-Based Validation of Ultrasound Liver Fat Quantification Tools

Misun Hwang, MD from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Cerebral Microvascular Imaging in Neonatal Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

Priyanka Jha, MBBS from University Of California San Francisco

Clinical Validation of Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) Endometriosis Consensus Criteria for Evaluating Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain and Infertility

Dr. Hersh Sagreiya from University of Pennsylvania

Analysis of thyroid nodules via Ultrasound and Machine learning

Dr. Guilherme Moura Cunha from University of Washington

Ultrasound assessment of appendicular muscle as a biomarker of muscle mass and sarcopenia using muscle CT measurements as reference standard

Dr. Luyao Shen from Stanford University

Ultrasound liver fat quantification with attenuation imaging (ATI): a retrospective validation study, comparison with qualitative steatosis grading system, and comparison with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm