Research and Extra-Clinical Activities

Emory Radiology encourages residents to pursue their scholarly interests through a wide range of opportunities. Residents can approach any faculty member with ideas for a research, clinical, or educational project. Many of our residents successfully compete for national programs such as the RSNA Education Project Award, RSNA Resident Research Grants, SIR Radiology Research Grants, the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research's Shark Tank competition, and more.

2024 RSNA Education Grant Award

Fourth-year resident Wasif Bala's project, AdaptiRad, is set to revolutionize radiology education. The evidence-based, deliberate practice approach leverages eye-tracking technology to provide users with unique insights into the progression of skill development through simulated real-world radiology tasks and optimal learning cases tailored to user competency.

2024 RSNA Resident Research Grant

Third-year resident Meagan Bechel, MD, PhD, is focused on increasing awareness and adherence with incidental imaging follow-up recommendations, specifically pulmonary nodules. To this end, Bechel will be coding and deploying two different interventions within Emory's electronic medical record: one for patients and one for primary care providers. For patients, she will build a system that monitors for radiology pulmonary nodule detection and inserts special instructions into patient after-visit summaries to notify them of the finding and recommendation. For the second intervention, Bechel is partnering with Emory Primary Care to develop a tracking system to help providers identify which patients within their census need imaging follow-up, have completed it, and are overdue.

2024 RSNA Resident Research Grant

Saumya Gurbani, MD, PhD, a third-year diagnostic radiology resident in the Research Track, received a two-year RSNA Resident Research Grant for developing a combined acquisition pipeline for MR spectroscopy and chemical exchange saturation transfer on a 7T scanner.