Clinical Radiology

Pediatric Imaging

Faculty
T. Robin Goodman, Associate Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Section Chief
Kenneth Baker, MD, Assistant Professor
S. Jamal Bokhari, MD, Associate Professor
Cicero Silva, MD, Assistant Professor

General Information

The section of Pediatric Imaging within the Yale Department of Radiology is composed of dedicated radiologists; 2 of whom are fellowship trained in the subspecialty of Pediatric Radiology. All are devoted to the care of children, utilizing advanced equipment to assist pediatricians in determining the best way in which to assess a specific problem with attention to minimizing radiation doses. The section is involved in:

• Plain film interpretation
• Fluoroscopy
• Ultrasound
• Computed tomography (CT)
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Imaging of patients is performed and seen by a full range of clinical subspecialists including the divisions of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatric Urology, Pediatric Surgery and Neonatology. Pediatric Imaging also confers with the sections of Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine for consultation.

There are approximately 35,000 exams interpreted and performed by the section each year.

Yale Pediatric Imaging is also responsible for the education of residents (3-4 months during the course of the residency) in the Yale Department of Radiology as well as from the residency programs of St. Raphael’s, Bridgeport, St. Vincent's and Norwalk Hospitals. We are also involved in clinical research and actively involved in clinico-radiologic conferences. These include a once weekly Tumor Board, and monthly conferences with the clinicians of the pediatric Surgery, Urology, and Emergency Department. There is also attendance at the once weekly Pediatric Discharge Conference. This is in addition to the daily rounds with the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the Newborn Special Care Unit, and the pediatric inpatient teams.

There is no Fellowship in Pediatric Radiology offered at this time.

There are broad clinical research interests including recent and ongoing projects with Pediatric Genetics (Ultrasound versus CTA in the assessment of arterial stenosis in Williams Syndrome); Pediatric Urology; Neonatology (The ELGAN project – a large multi-institutional study of the cranial ultrasounds of extremely low gestational age newborns); the Child Protection Team (the assessment of how the spectrum of the injuries of non-accidental trauma has evolved in the last decade) and the department of Pediatric Endocrinology (hepatic MRI fat quantification).

Publications

Kim H, Taksali SE, Dufour S, Befroy D, Goodman TR, Petersen KF, Shulman GI, Caprio S, Constable RT. Comparative MR study of hepatic fat quantification using single-voxel proton spectroscopy, two-point dixon and three-point IDEAL. Magn Reson Med. 2008 Mar;59(3):521-7.

Taksali SE, Caprio S, Dziura J, Dufour S, Cali AM, Goodman TR, Papademetris X, Burgert TS, Pierpont BM, Savoye M, Shaw M, Seyal AA, Weiss R. High visceral and low abdominal subcutaneous fat stores in the obese adolescent: a determinant of an adverse metabolic phenotype. Diabetes. 2008 Feb:57(2):367-71. Epub 2007 Oct 31.

Weinstein A, Goodman TR, Iragorri S. Simple multicystic dysplastic kidney disease: end points for subspecialty follow-up. Pediatr Nephrol. 2008; 23(1):111-6 (ISSN: 0931-041X).