ARRS Roentgen Fund Grants Resident/Fellow Awards to Four
Radiologists
Leesburg, VA, February
27, 2023—The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) proudly
recognizes the following four radiologists, as well as their research, with the
2023 ARRS Resident/Fellow in Radiology Awards:
Elliot T. Varney, MD | University of Mississippi Medical
Center
ARRS Resident/Fellow in Radiology
Melissa Rosado de Christenson Award
“MR Proton Density Fat Fraction
Suitability for Fat Quantification Across the Spectrum of Normal to Severe
Steatosis—A Prospective Comparative Analysis of Multiple Noninvasive Tests”
Vincius Alves, MD | Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center
ARRS Resident/Fellow in Radiology President’s
Award
“Prospective Characterization of
Intestinal MRI Intravoxel Incoherent Motion in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Small-Bowel Crohn Disease”
Luca Pasquini, MD
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
ARRS Resident/Fellow in Radiology Executive
Council Award
“Lack of Speech Arrest During Cortical
Stimulation in Patients With Brain Tumors Associated With Interhemispheric Reorganization
of Functional Language Network”
Pallavi Srivastava, MBBS,
MPH | University
of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
ARRS
Resident/Fellow in Radiology Executive Council Award
“Noninvasive
Assessment of White Matter Tissue Microstructure Using Multishell Diffusion MRI
in Preclinical and Prodromal Stages of Dementia”
Financed by The
Roentgen Fund®, the
ARRS Resident/Fellow in Radiology Awards are available to all ARRS In-Training Members in imaging and allied sciences research to acknowledge
their work and present their results during the ARRS Annual Meeting. Awards are
based on the competence and promise of the candidate in radiological research,
education, or administration and the scientific merit and potential impact of
the candidate’s research.
Drs. Varney,
Alves, Pasquini, and Srivastava will present their research findings during
the 2023 ARRS Annual Meeting at the Hawaii
Convention Center in Honolulu.
Elliot
T. Varney, MD, is a fourth-year
resident in a clinical investigator combined PhD and diagnostic radiology residency
program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he
serves as the diagnostic radiology chief resident. Currently on a dedicated research
year, Dr. Varney will complete and defend his dissertation, graduating in May with
a PhD in biomedical science. His research focus has primarily been
investigating modifiable imaging biomarkers of cardiometabolic disease;
however, Dr. Varney also has a strong interest in image-guided interventions
and cancer imaging.
A research fellow in clinical
radiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Vinicius Alves,
MD, obtained a medical degree from Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil in 2021. Dr. Alves then moved to the United States of America for
research training. His main research focus is clinical and translational
pediatric imaging. Prior research honors include the 2022 Majd-Gilday Young
Investigator Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging,
as well as a Best of 2022, Nuclear Medicine article from ARRS’ own American
Journal of Roentgenology (AJR). Dr. Alves intends to pursue a career
in academic radiology.
Luca Pasquini, MD, received his medical degree at the University of
Florence and completed his radiology residency at La Sapienza University in
Rome, Italy. Presently, Dr. Pasquini is completing the four-year pathway for
the American Board of Radiology certification at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center in New York City, combining research, neuroradiology, and nuclear
medicine training. He is also completing a PhD in neural plasticity at La
Sapienza University of Rome. Dr. Pasquini has authored more than 40
publications in peer-reviewed journals, presented abstracts and lectures at over
30 conferences worldwide, and received numerous grants and awards, such as the
2021 Fellow Grant from the Radiological Society of North America Foundation, as
well as the 2022 David Yousem Research Fellow Award from the American Society
of Neuroradiology. His research activity is currently focused on brain cancer
by means of functional and metabolic imaging.
Pallavi Srivastava, MBBS, MPH, is a T32-funded clinician/scientist track
first-year radiology resident at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center. After completing medical school in India, she received her MPH degree
from Stony Brook Medicine, NY. With research interests in health care
disparities and brain aging, Dr. Srivastava is utilizing MRI and
magnetoencephalography (MEG) to identify imaging-based biomarkers of the earliest
stages of dementia in a diverse population. She has presented her work at
multiple national and international conferences. Passionate about medical
education and mentoring, Dr. Srivastava was recognized for excellence in
medical student teaching during her surgery internship. She is actively
involved in national neuroradiology societies, has served as a meeting abstract
reviewer, and currently holds an appointment as a trainee committee member of
the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology.
An application call for the 2024 ARRS Resident/Fellow in Radiology Awards will be announced later this year.
North America’s first radiological society, the American
Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) remains dedicated to the advancement of
medicine through the profession of medical imaging and its allied sciences. An
international forum for progress in radiology since the discovery of the x-ray,
ARRS maintains its mission of improving health through a community committed to
advancing knowledge and skills with the world’s longest continuously published
radiology journal—American Journal of Roentgenology—the ARRS Annual Meeting, InPractice
magazine, topical symposia, myriad multimedia educational materials, as well as
awarding scholarships via The
Roentgen Fund®.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Logan K. Young, PIO
44211 Slatestone Court
Leesburg, VA 20176
703-858-4332
lyoung@arrs.org