Overview

  • Four ACGME-approved, one-year fellowship positions
  • Eight Full-time diagnostic neuroradiologists and three interventional neuroradiologists
  • Oldest public medical school covering radiology services at the University of Maryland main campus, Shock Trauma Center, and six major regional hospitals
  • One month of dedicated pediatric neuroradiology at Children's National Medical Center
  • Advanced trauma experience at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
  • Access to state of the art research facilities and mentorship
  • All training at UMMC, the flagship academic campus of the medical system, located in downtown Baltimore a short walk from the Inner Harbor

Training Environment

  • One-on-one attending support in a dynamic reading room environment, with busy consultation and teaching responsibilities
  • Interventional neuroradiology: minimum four weeks (includes cerebrovascular, spine, pain management and image guided procedures)
  • Academic time: one day per week
  • Experience outside the reading room including neurosurgery/ENT clinics and operating room observation
  • Weekly dedicated fellowship lectures and conferences
  • Weekly interdisciplinary conferences including stroke, neuro-oncology, head and neck tumor board, epilepsy and pediatrics
  • All training at UMMC (with the exception of one-month rotation at the Children's National Medical Center), no commuting to satellite centers, no night shift in house coverage and no reading responsibilities outside of neuroradiology
  • Weekday pager call responsibilities performed from home
  • Three weeks of vacation plus extra week during holiday season

Clinical Resources

  • Intensive PET/CT and integrated PET/MR imaging
  • MR guided high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
  • Functional and DTI imaging
  • Two state-of-the-art biplane neuroangiography suites
  • Major regional stroke center with highly active stroke neurointerventional program
  • Regional leader in head and neck oncology
  • State of the art new Carestream PACS

Research Resources

  • Leaders in informatics, 3D printing, artificial intelligence and deep learning with the opportunity to collaborate with fellows and faculty from our informatics fellowship
  • Access to facilities and resources at the University of Maryland School of Medicine including the Health Sciences Library and makerspace, courses in grantsmanship and manuscript writing
  • Center for Molecular Imaging Technology (hyperpolarized MRI, MR guided high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU))
  • Maryland Center for Advanced Imaging Research (MCAIR) (state of the art 3T, PET/MR and small animal MRI)

Applying

For additional information on becoming a neuroradiology fellow, visit the ASNR Web site.