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Rashmi Nair, MBBS, MD

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HX315 A B CHANDLER MEDICAL CENTER

Positions

  • Associate Professor of Radiology
  • Magnetic Resonance Medical Director for University of Kentucky Health Care (UKHC)
  • Program Director, Abdominal Radiology Fellowship

College Unit(s)

Other Affiliation(s)
  • Abdominal Radiology

Biography and Education

Education

MEDICAL SCHOOL AND INTERNSHIP Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India RADIOLOGY RESIDENCY Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India FELLOWSHIP Oncodiagnostic Imaging Fellowship - Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Abdominal Imaging and Interventions - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Selected Publications

1. VanSonnenberg E, Shankar S, Morrison PR, Nair RT, Silverman SG, Jaklitsch MT, Liu F, Cheung L, Tuncali K, Skarin AT, Sugarbaker DJ. Radiofrequency Ablation of Thoracic Lesions: Part 2, Initial Clinical Experience - Technical and Multidisciplinary Considerations in 30 Patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005 Feb;184(2):381-90. 2. Nair RT, Silverman SG, Tuncali K, Obuchowski NA, vanSonnenberg E, Shankar S. Biochemical and Hematologic Alterations Following Percutaneous Cryoablation of Liver Tumors: Experience in 48 Procedures. Radiology. 2008 Jul;248(1):303-11. 3. Nair RT, vanSonnenberg E, Shankar S, Morrison PR, Gill RR, Tuncali K, Silverman SG. Visceral and Soft-Tissue Tumors: Radiofrequency and Alcohol Ablation for Pain Relief - Initial Experience. Radiology. 2008 Sep;248(3):1067-76. 4. Sinha P, Nair RT, Ganesh HS, Purdom M, Krohmer SJ, Conrad GR. Exophytic Lymphoma of the Uterus Identified by 18-FDG PET Scan. J Radiol Radiat Ther. 2013 Oct;1(2):1014. 5. Carias S, Castellanos AL, Vilchez V, Nair RT, Dela Cruz A, Watkins J, Barrett T, Trushar P, Esser K, Gedaly R. Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Is Strongly Associated with Sarcopenic Obesity in Patients with Cirrhosis Undergoing Liver Transplant Evaluation. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2016 Mar;31(3):628-33; Epub Ahead of Print 2015 Sep 23. 6. Dawkins AA, George N, Ganesh HS, Ayoob AR, Lee JT, Nair RT, Kiper C, Duncan K, Stevens SD. Radiologist and Sonographer Interpretation Discrepancies for Biliary Sonographic Findings: Our Experience. Ultrasound Q. 2017 Dec; 33(4):261-4. Epub Ahead of Print 2017 Apr 10. 7. Ganesh HS, Raslau FD, Dawkins AA, Nair RT. Controversies in Clinical Nephrology: Contrast-induced Acute Kidney Injury - Radiology Perspective. Clin Nephrol. 2018 Mar;89(3):176-80. 8. Tran-Harding K, Nair RT, Ganesh HS. Renal Granulomatosis Post Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Therapy for Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer. J Clin Imaging Sci. 2018 Apr 18;8:18 (3 pages). 9. Clark AI, Dawkins AA, Nair RT. “Inverted Figure 3” Sign of Periampullary Carcinoma. Abdom Radiol. 2018 Sep:43(9):2542-3. 10. Tran-Harding K, Nair RT, Dawkins A, Ayoob A, Owen J, Deraney S, Lee JT, Stevens S, Ganesh H. Endometriosis Revisited: An Imaging Review of the Usual and Unusual Manifestations with Pathological Correlation. Clin Imaging. 2018 Jul 31;52:163-71. 11. McCann MR, Ayoob A, Hatfield W, Owen JW, Nair RT, Ganesh H, Lee JT. Evaluating Methods to Increase LI-RADS Utilization in an Academic Radiology Department. J Am Coll Radiol. 2019 Sep;16(9 Pt A):1165-8. 12. Kapoor H, Issa M, Winkler MA, Nair RT, Wesam F, Ganesh H. The Augmented Role of Pancreatic Imaging in the Era of Endoscopic Necrosectomy: An Illustrative and Pictorial Review. Abdom Radiol (NY). Epub Ahead of Print 2019 Jun 13.