Faculty

Lakshmi Ananthakrishnan, M.D.

• Director, Computed Tomography Fellowship
• Assistant Professor

Jovan Begovic, M.D.

• Assistant Director, Abdominal Imaging Fellowship Program
• Assistant Professor

Kristen Bishop, M.D.

• Assistant Professor

Travis Browning, M.D.

• Director, Quality
• Associate Professor

Julie Champine, M.D.

• Director, Abdominal Imaging Fellowship Program
• Professor

Edward Chen, M.D.

• Director, Gastrointestinal Imaging
• Associate Professor

Daniel Costa, M.D.

• Associate Professor

David Fetzer, M.D.

• Director, Ultrasound
• Assistant Professor

Gaurav Khatri, M.D.

• Chief, Body MR
• Interim Chief, Abdominal Imaging
• Associate Professor

John Leyendecker, M.D.

• Vice Chair, Academic Affairs
• Professor

Robert Mattrey, M.D.

• Director, Ultrasound Research
• Professor

Ivan Pedrosa, M.D., Ph.D.

• Vice Chair, Research
• Professor
• Research Lab

Daniella Pinho, M.D.

• Assistant Professor

Jeffrey Pruitt, M.D.

• Director, Genitourinary Imaging
• Professor

Anthony Setiawan, M.D.

• Professor

Vasantha Vasan, M.D.

• Clinical Assistant Professor

Kanupriya Vijay, M.D.

• Associate Professor

Lori Watumull, M.D.

• Professor

Takeshi Yokoo, M.D., Ph.D.

• Director, MRI Research
• Associate Professor

 

Eric Zeikus, M.D.

• Chief Radiology Officer, University Hospitals
• Assistant Professor

Program Highlights

• Fellows rotate through Parkland Memorial Hospital (870 beds), Clements University Hospital (460 beds), Rogers Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, and the Clements Imaging Building (PET Center)
• A high-volume clinical workload offers immense learning opportunities, with more than 21,000 CT (including CT colonography, CT enterography, and CT angiography), more than 5,000 MR (including newly developed 3T pulse sequence advanced MR imaging), more than 25,000 ultrasound (including advanced vascular ultrasound and elastography), and more than 600 image-guided procedures (over the past year: liver biopsy/drainage 173, thyroid FNA 223, lymph node biopsy 159, renal biopsy 43, paracentesis 59, abdominal abscess drainage in excess of 200) in this section per year
• Fellowship training is provided by 17 full-time Abdominal Imaging faculty, plus four MR and five Nuclear Medicine faculty
• Rotations include 12 weeks of Body CT, 12 weeks of Body MR, eight weeks of Body Procedures, eight weeks of ultrasound, four weeks of GI/GU/Fluoroscopy, four weeks of PET, and four weeks of an elective

Beyond the clinical experience

Fellows’ responsibilities include assisting in resident and medical student education, consulting with referring clinicians, participating in abdominal imaging journal club and quality improvement conferences.

Benefits

• Fellows receive four weeks elective time to pursue academic interests in other subspecialty sections of the department
• Pay is commensurate with PGY level
• Fellows receive 25 days of PTO annually

Call Duty

Call is for a one-week period, nine times over the course of the year. Fellows are first contact home call with faculty backup 5 p.m. – 7:30 a.m. weekdays and 24 hours/day on weekends for in-house radiology resident questions or abscess drainages. During call weekends, fellows assist in-house faculty in the interpretation of abdominal imaging exams at Clements University Hospital.

Facilities and Equipment

Clinical facilities consist of:

• Four dual-energy CT scanners, including a Philips IQON spectral CT device
• One 320-row CT scanner
• Three 256-row CT scanners
• Twelve 64-row CT scanners
• Seven 3T magnets
• Seven 1.5T magnets
• Fourteen Philips iu22 (including elastography software) ultrasound units
• Nineteen EPIQ7 ultrasound units

Additional research equipment includes:

• One 7T magnet

Research Opportunities

Fellows participate in a research project in the form of lab research, clinical research, analysis of disease processes, imaging techniques, or procedure management issues. Fellows are guaranteed academic time each week for research activity. Results of scholarly activity will be submitted for publication and/or meeting presentation.

Fellows also contribute to a quality improvement project.

Salaries and Benefits

Hospital stipends are set annually and are competitive nationally with those of other teaching programs. The amount, shown in the chart below, depends on the year of residency training.

Low-cost hospitalization and dental insurance is available to contracted house staff, as well as a group life insurance plan.

Medical malpractice insurance is provided for Radiology house staff by the Department through the University of Texas System group plan.

The Fellow’s assignments and vacation usage will be determined and/or approved by the Program Director. Fellows accrue vacation and sick leave on a monthly basis and may utilize such leaves consistent with State law and the Policies and Procedures adopted by UTSW to implement the State law.

Benefits Summary

UT Southwestern Sample Contract

Application Process

The program provides five one-year fellowship positions annually. Information regarding the application process can be found under How to Apply on the main Fellowships page.We are currently accepting applications for academic year 2025–2026 and will be accepting applications for 2026–2027 in the fall.

International Medical Graduates

For questions regarding International Medical Graduates, please visit our fellowships page.