Grant Recipients to Present at Annual Meeting
Get Ready to Be Inspired!
Join us during RSNA 2024 for a thought-provoking panel featuring R&E Foundation grant recipients discussing their groundbreaking work in health disparities. These experts will share insights into how they began their research journeys, share information on their projects funded by the Foundation’s Emerging Issues Grant, and explore how their findings are making a difference in underserved communities across the country.
This Discovery Theater fireside chat is co-sponsored by the RSNA’s Health Equity Committee and the R&E Foundation on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 10:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Join us to learn more about the research of these exciting investigators:
The project by Farouk Dako, MD, MPH, is exploring how community-based participatory research, which utilizes a partnership approach between researchers and community stakeholders, has demonstrated the ability to reduce cancer health disparities.
In her prior experiments, Judy Gichoya, MBChB, MS, and team have demonstrated that AI has a remarkable performance to predict patient’s self-reported race based on a radiology image. Her project proposes to perform external validation of three models that stop AI from learning the race but instead learn disease features. If successful, the project will provide strategies that develop models that work for diverse patient groups.
Soterios Gyftopoulos, MD, MBA, aims to gain better understanding of the current screening utilization rates, facilitators and barriers to screening to aid in providing a comprehensive strategy to improve care by focusing resources on Asian populations in greatest need of improved osteoporosis screening.
The goal of Christina LeBedis, MD, MS’s project is to implement an innovative evidence-informed intervention which includes patient navigation to improve hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance in at-risk patients and reduce the disproportionate toll of HCC in minorities and socially disadvantaged populations.
In partnership with our community health partners, Bhavika Patel, MD is evaluating and planning for the sustainability of a no-cost ride-share program to reduce structural barriers to access to improve clinical trial retention and use of breast cancer screening technologies to improve patient outcomes.
Adherence to lung cancer screening remains low among the Hispanic population with multiple contributing patient- and provider-level barriers. Gelareh Sadigh, MD’s study is assessing perceptions and barriers toward lung cancer screening in Hispanic patients and testing the feasibility of a multilevel interventions.
Grant Recipient Spotlight
“RSNA is renowned worldwide for its exceptional support of young researchers, playing a crucial role in fostering innovation and excellence within our field. I am deeply honored to receive the Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award, which will significantly contribute to my growth in radiology research. I am also profoundly grateful for the continuous support from my mentors and my department.”
Francesca Rigiroli, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School