Faculty

Manickam “Nicks” Kumaravel, MD, MRCS, FRCR, MBA

Course curator & faculty member

Manickam “Nicks” Kumaravel, MD, MRCS, FRCR, MBA, is based at the University of Texas Health (UTHealth) Science Center in Houston, Texas. At UTHealth, he is a vice president, professor of radiology and orthopedics, vice chair of diagnostic radiology and holds the esteemed Memorial Hermann Chair.

Dr. Kumaravel has been recognized as an honored fellow for his contributions to the American Society of Emergency Radiology and is a team doctor for professional sports teams with the NFL, NBA and the Association of Tennis Professionals.

Dr. Kumaravel is passionate about education and has lectured in many national and international conferences and teaching programs. Various organizations have recognized him as a distinguished educator, including RSNA and the University of Texas, where he was awarded the Reagents Award for Education. 

His research interests include traumatic hip injuries, the role of biologics in elite athlete injuries, imaging of cartilage and the use of ultrashort TE sequences to assess ligament healing.  

Anjali Agrawal, MD

Anjali Agrawal, MD, is a consultant radiologist at Teleradiology Solutions, where she heads the Delhi operations. She is a founding member and immediate past secretary of the Society for Emergency Radiology in India and is a fellow of the American Society of Emergency Radiology, the Indian College of Radiology and Imaging and the European Society of Emergency Radiology. She graduated in 1994 from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, followed by radiology training at AIIMS and a residency in diagnostic radiology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas (2002). Prior to her role at Teleradiology Solutions, Dr. Agrawal was an assistant professor of radiology at the VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine (2003).

Dr. Agrawal is an editorial board member of the journal Emergency Radiology and has published and presented scientific data on clinical emergency radiology, teleradiology and AI. She is an invited speaker to international and national meetings and has been a co-director of the AIRP-PGI categorical courses in radiology in India. 

Carlota Andreu Arasa, MD, PhD 

Carlota Andreu Arasa, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor in radiology at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Andreu obtained her medical degree and doctorate at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. She completed her radiology residency in Madrid and her neuroradiology and body imaging fellowships at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Andreu has specific interests in head and neck oncology, emergency radiology and trauma radiology and neurodegenerative disorders.

Krystal Archer-Arroyo, MD    

Krystal Archer-Arroyo, MD, is an associate professor in the division of emergency and trauma imaging in the department of Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Emory University in August 2017 with clinical roles, including the director of critical event preparedness and response for the Department of Radiology, the clinical site director for emergency and trauma imaging and the American College of Surgeon’s trauma liaison at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Archer-Arroyo also serves as the interim associate chief of radiology at Grady Memorial Hospital. She has a passion for emergency radiology education and speaks at many national and international meetings. Dr. Archer-Arroyo also serves on several committees with the American Society of Emergency Radiology and RSNA. Her research interests include the use of dual energy in the trauma setting. 

Ashwin V. Asrani, MD 

Ashwin Asrani, MD, is an associate professor of radiology and an assistant attending radiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Campus, where he is a member of the emergency radiology division. In addition to an active clinical practice, Dr. Asrani is a dedicated and engaged teacher of residents, fellows and medical students. Dr. Asrani achieved board certification in diagnostic radiology from the American Board of Radiology in 2010.

Suzanne T. Chong, MD, MS, FASER  

Suzanne Chong, MD, MS, is an assistant professor of radiology and director of emergency radiology at the University of Michigan. She is fellowship trained in abdominal imaging and completed a master’s degree in clinical research design and statistical analysis. Her clinical and research interests include imaging of traumatic injuries in adults and children, nontraumatic emergencies in women and children, and quality initiatives aimed at improving efficiency and appropriate imaging utilization in emergent settings. She is a two-time recipient of an emergency radiology teaching award and has mentored her residents on numerous educational exhibits at the American Society of Emergency Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society and RSNA annual meetings, many of which have been award winning. She has also published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is a member of the Acute Care Research Unit and the Institute for Health Policy Innovations at the University of Michigan.

Wende Gibbs, MD, MA 

Wende Gibbs, MD, MA, is an associate professor of neuroradiology and the director of spine imaging and intervention at Barrow Neurological Institute. She is dedicated to the education of physicians in training and practice through academic and organized medicine, with leadership and committee roles in multiple national and international medical societies. Dr. Gibbs is frequently invited to speak at neurosurgery and spine surgery meetings and is a radiology representative in multispecialty working groups for disease-focused guidelines and research.

Dr. Gibbs is passionate about multidisciplinary cooperation and collaboration. She has participated in the development of multiple radiology guidelines and practice parameters and is a reviewer for 12 journals. She has focused her research, service and education efforts on spine oncology, intervention and pain management, radiology reporting, Alzheimer's disease and neurodegenerative and CSF disorders. In addition to spine topics, her interests include patient safety and communication, AI, machine learning, informatics and continuing education in radiology. 

Laura Lee Hayes, MD 

Laura Lee Hayes, MD, is a pediatric neuroradiologist, an associate director of pediatric neuroradiology at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and an associate professor of radiology at Emory University School of Medicine. 

Carrie N. Hoff, MD 

Carrie N. Hoff, MD, is an assistant professor of radiology and imaging sciences and she serves as the Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital emergency radiology site director. Dr. Hoff is a trauma and emergency radiologist with fellowship training in abdominal MRI and interest in traumatic neuroradiology. Her recent research involves total body CT scans for injury characterization in simulated cadaver trauma, using CT to construct finite element models. Dr. Hoff received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her medical degree from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota, and completed specialty training in both diagnostic radiology and abdominal MRI at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was on staff for six years before coming to Emory.

Savvas Nicolaou, MD

Savvas Nicolaou, MD, is the head and medical director of the Department of Radiology at Vancouver Acute Services and is a professor of radiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr. Nicolaou created Canada’s first emergency radiology fellowship program when he became director of emergency and trauma imaging in 2002. Dr. Nicolaou is a pioneer of emergency radiology and has published over 200 articles and 400 abstracts in peer-reviewed journals. He developed and deployed one of the first whole-body trauma CT protocols and established the operation of emergency radiology at Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Nicolaou also launched the Canadian Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Radiology Society (CETARS), which he now leads as president. Most recently, Dr. Nicolaou teamed up with UBC’s Cloud Innovation Center and Amazon AWS to deploy an open-source, predictive machine learning tool to aid clinical decision making for patients with COVID-19. 

Christopher Potter, MD 

Christopher Potter, MD, practices emergency radiology and neuroradiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and is faculty at Harvard University School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree at University of California, San Francisco and completed radiology residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Washington. His primary academic interest is emergency neuroradiology.

Constantine Raptis, MD

Constantine Raptis, MD, is a professor of radiology, director of thoracic MRI and co-director of emergency radiology at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Raptis’ clinical interests include multi-modality body imaging, and his research interests include cardiac and non-cardiac thoracic MRI, acute aortic imaging and pulmonary embolism imaging.

Susanna C. Spence, MD

Susanna C. Spence, MD, is a professor of diagnostic and interventional imaging in Houston, Texas. Dr. Spence’s clinical focus is in both orthopedic and emergency imaging. She is also interested in broad applications of quality improvement, the appropriate use of resources and throughput, as well as medical education.

Naveen Subhas, MD, MPH

Naveen Subhas, MD, is a staff radiologist in the musculoskeletal section at the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. He completed his medical training with a fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Subhas has published several research articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and has presented at conferences and symposia in his area of expertise.