Education

The body MRI section in the Department of Radiology leverages a rapidly growing clinical volume, outstanding MRI equipment, and dedicated clinical and research faculty to create a unique environment for learning. Trainees include residents, fellows, and visitors.

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Current Fellows

Curran Bice
Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA
Fellowship, Body MRI 2026-2027
 
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA
Residency, Diagnostic Radiology
Anandita Mathur
Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA
Fellowship, Body MRI 2026-2027
 
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Residency, Diagnostic Radiology
Sarah Miller
Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA
Fellowship, Body MRI 2026-2027
 
Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA
Residency, Diagnostic Radiology

Alumni

2026

Residency: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA
Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Undegrad: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Donald Chan, ME, EdM
2025-2026

Current:
Radiologist, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
Redwood City, CA

Residency: LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA
Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

Undergrad: University of Houston, Houston, TX

Jessica Chong, MD, MPH
2025-2026

Current:
Teleradiology
Houston, TX

Residency: University of Rochester, Rochester, NYM Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, NY
Undergrad: Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Sunny Rishi, MD
2025-2026

Current:
Radiologist, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA

2025

Residency: Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Terrence Jao, MD
2024-2025

Current:
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Residency: Case Western Reserve University – MetroHealth Hospital
Undergrad: Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan

Umer Nisar, MBBS
2024-2025

Current:
Assistant Professor, University of Utah, School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT

2024

Residency: University of California, San Diego, CA
Medical School: University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Undergrad: University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Alexandra Besser, MD
2023-2024

Current:
Teleradiology, Consulting Radiologists, Eden Prairie, MN

Residency: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Medical School: Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Undergrad: The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Andrew Gomella, MD
2023-2024

Current:
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Residency: University of Arkansas of Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
Medical School: Dr. S. N. Medical College, Jodhpur, India

Surbhi Raichandani, MD
2023-2024

Current:
Assistant Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Residency: University of California, San Diego, CA
Medical School: University of California, San Diego, CA
Undergrad: Harvard College

Nancy Zhang, MD
2023-2024

Current:
Radiologist, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA

2023

Residency: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Medical School: Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran

Negaur Iranpour, MD
2022-2023

Current:
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Residency: Hartford Hospital Radiology Residency Program, Hartford, CT
Medical School: Madras Medical College, Chennai, India

Praveen Jayapal, MBBS
2022-2023, Partial

Current:
Clinical Assistant Professor, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Residency: UT Southwestern Diagnostic & Nuclear Radiology, Dallas, TX
Medical School: UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
Undergrad: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Robert Carson Sibley, MD
2022-2023

Current:
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Residency: University of California, San Diego, CA
Medical School: University of California, San Diego, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Kang Wang, MD
2022-2023

Current:
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Residency: Beaumont Health-Farmington Hills, MI
Medical School: Michigan State University College, East Lansing, MI of Osteopathic Medicine
Undergrad: Grand valley State University, Allendale, MI

Zachary Franks, DO
2022-2023

Current:
Radiologist, Tahoe Carson Radiology, Carson City, NV

2022

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Yosef Chodakiewitz, MD
2021-2022

Current:
Radiologist, Prenuvo

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Cheng (William) Hong, MD
2021-2022
Current:
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Ali Moalem, MD
2021-2022

Current:
Assistant Professor, Columbia University

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Avishkar Sharma, MD
2021-2022

Current:
Radiologist, Einstein Healthcare Network

2021

Residency: Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Medical School: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Undergrad: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Ali Agely, MD
2020-2021

Current:
Mayo Clinic Florida

Residency: Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Medical School: University of Texas Health at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Undergrad: University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

Jonathan (Philip) Lam, MD
2020-2021

Current:
American Radiology Associates, Dallas, TX

Residency: University of Texas Health at Houston, Houston, TX
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Undergrad: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Manoj Mathew, MD
2020-2021

Current:
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Residency: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA
Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
Undergrad: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Bradley Monteforte, MD
2020-2021

Current:
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

2020

Residency: Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
Medical School: Stanley Medical College, Tamil Nadu, India

Anugayathri Jawahar, MD
2019-2020

Current: 
Assistant Professor, Northwestern

Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Medical School: Pritzker School of Medice, The University of Chicago
Undergrad: Emory University

Karthik Sundaram, MD, PhD
2019-2020

Current:
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of California, Los Angeles

Ali Syed
2019-2020

Current:
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine

2019

Residency: University of California San Diego, San Diego
Medical School: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Undergrad: University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Ryan Brunsing, MD, PhD
2018-2019

Current:
Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Residency: Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA
Medical School: Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Undergrad: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Angela Fast, MD
2018-2019

Current:
Assistant Professor, Allegheny Health Network

Residency: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Medical School: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Undergrad: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Signy Holmes, MD
2018-2019

Current:
Radiologist, University of Manitoba

Residency: University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Undergrad: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Vipul Sheth, PD, PhD
2018-2019

Current:
Assistant Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Residency: Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA
Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Undergrad: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Preeti Sukerkar, MD, PhD
2018-2019

Current:
Assistant Clinical Professor, Palo Alto VA

2018

Residency: University of Florida Health, Jacksonville, FL
Medical School: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farzin Imani, MD, PhD
2017-2018

Current:
Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles

Residency: Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
Medical School: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Albert Roh, MD
2017-2018

Current:
Chair of Radiology, Alameda Health System

Residency: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH
Undergrad: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Jamil Shaikh, MD
2017-2018
Current:
Emory Healthcare

Current: Radiologist, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Residency: Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Medical School: Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Undergrad: Marianopolis College, Montréal, Canada

Kim-Nhien Vu, MD
2017-2018

Current:
Montreal

2017

Current: Consultant Radiologist, Braid Medical Group, San Francisco, CA; Consultant Radiologist, Teleradiology-AI startup, Sacramento, CA; Fee-Basis Physician, Sacramento Mather Hospital, VA Health System, Sacramento, CA
Residency: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Undergrad: Duke University, Durham, NC

Anshul Haldipur, MD
2016-2017

Current:
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado

Residency: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Medical School: Penn State University, Hershey, PA
Undergrad: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Michael Muelly, MD
2016-2017
Current:
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Medicine/Google Cloud Healthcare; Co-Founder, NewCo
Current:

Current: Radiologist, Centre Diagnostic Imaging, State College, PA
Residency: University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Undergrad: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Paul Stoddard, MD
2016-2017
Current:
VA Pittsburg Healthcare System

2016

Residency: Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford
Medical School: UCSF
Undergrad: Harvard University

Stephanie Chang, MD
2015-2016

Current:
Clinical Associate Professor, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System

Residency: University of British Columbia
Medical School: University of British Columbia
Undergrad: University of British Columbia

Steven Co, MD
2015-2016

Current:
Clinical Instructor, Lions Gate Hospital, Vancouver, BC; Partner, North Shore Medical Imaging Clinic, North Vancouver, Canada

2015

Residency: University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Medical School: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Undergrad: Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN

Alex Lewis, MD
2014-2015

Current:
Partner, Boca Radiology Group – Boca Raton Regional Hospital

Current: Assistant Professor, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
Residency: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Medical School: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Undergrad: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Piotr Obara, MD
2014-2015

Current Location: North Shore University Health System

2014

Residency: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
Undergrad: Tufts University, Medford, MA

Kristen Gaarder, MD
2013-2014

Current:
Radiologist, Modesto Radiology Imaging

Residency: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Medical School: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Andreas Loening, MD, PhD
2013-2014

Current:
Associate Professor, Stanford University, School of Medicine

2013

Residency: University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Medical School: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Undergrad: Duke University, Durham, NC

Thomas Hope, MD
2012-2013

Current:
Professor, UCSF

Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Medical School: University Ss, Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia, Europe

Iva Petkovska, MD
2012-2013

Current:
Associate Attending Radiology at Memorial Sloan Ketting and an Associate Professor of Radiology at Weil Cornell

Current: Captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy; Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA; Director, (Chief Operating Officer) Clinical Support (Ancillary) Services; Director, Health Evaluation and Lifestyle Management Executive Medicine Program (HELM)
Residency: Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA
Medical School: University of Health Sciences
Undergrad: Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

Christopher Way, DO
2012-2013

Current Location: Sentara Healthcare – Optima Health

2012

Residency: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Medical School: University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Undergrad: University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Sharon Clarke, MD, PhD
2011-2012

Current:
Associate Professor, Section Head – Abdominal Imaging, Dalhousie University

2011

Residency: University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center, Austin, TX
Medical School: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Alan Xu, MD
2010-2011

Current:
Staff Radiologist, National Teleradiology Program VA, CA

2010

Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Medical School: Charité - University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Moritz Kircher, MD
2009-2010

2009

Residency: Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Undergrad: Stanford University, Stanford CA

Phillip Young, MD
2008-2009

Current:
Professor of Radiology and Chair of the Division of Body MRI, Mayo, MN

2008

Residency: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Medical School: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS
Undergrad: Loyola University, Chicago, IL

Douglas Lake, MD
2007-2008

Current:
Radiologist, McFarland Clinic and Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames, IA, Boone County Hospital

2007

Residency: David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA
Medical School: Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Undergrad: Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

Adrianne Thompson, MD
2006-2007

Current:
David Grant Medical Center, Travis Airforce Base

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