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ProScan Imaging Education Foundation is now accepting applications for its enhanced and expanded one-year Fellowship in MR and Advanced Imaging with available positions beginning in both January and July.
Clinical Volume
ProScan Imaging is one of the largest advanced imaging teleradiology practices in the world, interpreting over 1,200 MR examinations/day.
Breadth of Training
Examinations include adult, pediatric, sports medicine, emergency, elective, and screening studies from low-, mid-, and high-field MR systems.
MR Case Mix
The highly varied case mix consists of musculoskeletal (60%); spine (13%); brain, head, and neck (12%); breast (5%); abdomen and body (5%); cardiovascular and miscellaneous MR (5%).
Professional Support Services
The training program is an integral component of an active clinical teleradiology practice that is supported by a fully-staffed reading services team, information technology department, and state-of-the-art PACS systems.
Academic Infrastructure
Numerous opportunities for clinical, basic, and health services research are available. Such endeavors are supported by a newly-opened MR Education Center, an extensive MR video and CD library, individual fellow academic funds, an audiovisual department, and academic meeting time.
Daily Teaching Conferences
The daily noon conferences are didactic lectures and/or interesting case conferences organized to cover all aspects of clinical MRI throughout the training year. The MR Lecture Series includes a one-month mini-course entitled “Introduction to MR” and a six-week mini-course on “Practical Orthopaedic MRI.”
We will prepare you for future practice in a wide variety of private or academic settings.
Fellowship candidates must be board-certified or board-qualified in diagnostic radiology and must obtain an Ohio Medical License. Salary and fringe benefits are highly competitive.
Faculty
Stephen J. Pomeranz, M.D.
CEO & Medical Director, ProScan Imaging and ProScan Imaging Education Foundation
Dr. Stephen J. Pomeranz is a world-renowned diagnostic radiologist, educator, and author with expertise in magnetic resonance (MR) and advanced imaging. Involved in the imaging applications of MR since the early 1980s, he has observed, experienced, and enhanced the development of MRI from a cutting-edge, experimental technology to a mature clinical discipline. Dr. Pomeranz has not only interpreted 500,000+ MRI examinations in his career, but also written several noted textbooks and trained many fellows in MRI and advanced imaging. He is the author of the three-volume MRI Total Body Atlas and many other popular texts, CD-ROMs, and DVDs.
Declaration of Faculty Disclosure: Stephen J. Pomeranz, M.D., is CEO of ProScan Imaging, parent organization of ProScan Imaging Education Foundation, and part-owner of ProScan Imaging’s outpatient diagnostic imaging sites. There is no additional actual or potential financial conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Margaret D. Phillips, M.D.
Associate Medical Director and Director of Medical Education,
ProScan Imaging Education Foundation
Dr. Margaret D. Phillips is a board-certified and fellowship-trained radiologist in internal medicine, cross-sectional imaging, and MRI. She attended Boston University's School of Medicine and completed residencies in internal medicine at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and in radiology at Harvard Medical School, where she was Chief Resident at Brigham & Women's Hospital. Dr. Phillips has been an instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School; a staff physician in the Department of Internal Medicine for Kaiser-Permanente; an associate radiologist and clinical associate at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and a medical staff member at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Before moving to Cincinnati, her family co-owned a freestanding MRI center. In 2006 and 2007, Dr. Phillips was a Fellow in MRI and Advanced Imaging at PSI headquarters. Upon completion of her fellowship in July 2007, Dr. Phillips joined ProScan as an attending physician. She then accepted the position of Director of Medical Education.
Declaration of Faculty Disclosure: Margaret D. Phillips, M.D. is Director of Medical Education for ProScan Imaging Education Foundation. There is no additional actual or potential conflict of interest to this program.
Malcolm Shupeck, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Medical Director and Director of Fellowship Administration,
ProScan Imaging Education Foundation
Certified since 1991 by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, Dr. Malcolm Shupeck is both a fellowship-trained Imaging Neurosurgeon and a fellowship-trained Pediatric Neurosurgeon. He has been a member of the American College of Surgeons since 1994 and belongs to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. A native of Danville, PA, Dr. Shupeck earned his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College before attending medical school at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Following an internship at the Medical College of Virginia, he completed his Research Fellowship in Physiology of the Peripheral Nerve Center and his residency in neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Before joining ProScan Imaging and the ProScan Imaging Education Foundation as a Year-Long Fellow in Neuro Imaging in 2009, he was employed by Pinehurst Surgical in Pinehurst, NC. Dr. Shupeck became Associate Medical Director of ProScan Imaging Education Foundation and Director of the Year-Long Fellowship Administration in May 2009.
Declaration of Faculty Disclosure: Dr. Malcolm Shupeck, M.D., F.A.C.S. is Director of Medical Education for ProScan Imaging Education Foundation. There is no additional actual or potential conflict of interest to this program. | 
