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Pediatric Musculoskeletal Infections: The Role of MRI
on Advances in Medical Imaging
Pre-treatment MRI can eliminate unnecessary diagnostic or surgical procedures for children with suspected musculoskeletal infections. Host Dr. Jason Birnholz and Dr. J. Herman Kan, assistant professor of radiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, specializing in pediatric and adolescent radiology, discuss the application of MRIs and the results of his recent study which showed that a significant number of surgeries could be avoided with early MRI evaluation. Tune in to hear the valuable role MRI plays in the evaluation of musculoskeletal infection.
Dr. J. Herman Kan is an assistant professor of radiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Kan specializes in pediatric and adolescent radiology and has published numerous article concerning the application of radiological services in this area for diagnostic and imaging purposes. He is proficient in general pediatric radiology, with special interest in multimodality pediatric musculoskeletal imaging. Dr. Kan received his undergraduate degree at UCLA, and his medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York. His internship in internal medicine and his residency in diagnostic radiology were completed at University of Chicago Hospitals. He completed his two-year fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital with a sub-specialty in pediatric musculoskeletal radiology during his second year.
Dr. Jason Birnholz is considered one of the founders of diagnostic ultrasound imaging. He began scanning as a clinical fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, initially as a means of identifying coronary artery disease, and later for finding and staging various types of tumors. Following completion of residency training in diagnostic radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Birnholz did graduate study in acoustics and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He subsequently held academic and clinical appointments at Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, and Rush Medical College, lecturing internationally on topics spanning instrumentation, examination technique, and a full range of specific clinical applications. During the last fifteen years, Dr Birnholz has focused on outpatient ultrasound applications, with emphasis on women's health, as the head of Diagnostic Ultrasound Consultants in Oak Brook, Illinois. Dr. Birnholz is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists of England, and an associate fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers. A number of firsts in the ultrasound field have been credited to Dr. Birnholz: the introductions of digital ultrasound; phased array ultrasound; computed sonography; the first paper on using ultrasound to identify wall movement abnormalities in patients with myocardial infarction. He also developed a free-hand technique that is now the standard of practice throughout the world for ultrasound-guided biopsy and catheter placement. Dr. Birnholz used this technique to perform the first minimally invasive fetal surgery procedures ever reported.
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