Arastoo Vossough - Faculty Biosketch

Arastoo Vossough, PhD, MD

Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Attending Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

Attending Radiologist, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Attending Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Attending Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Attending Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Chester County Hospital, Chester County, PA

Larissa T. Bilaniuk Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neuroradiology Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Department: Radiology

Contact information

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Radiology
Division of Neuroradiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 267-426-3993
Fax: 267-590-1345

Education:
MA (English Language Teaching)
Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 1990.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 1994.
PhD (Applied Linguistics)
Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 1995.

Post-Graduate Training
Internship, Internal Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital St. Raphael, New Haven, CT, 1999-2000.
Resident, Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2004.
Chief Resident, Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2003-2004.
Fellow, Neuroradiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2004-2006.
Clinical and Research Fellow, Neuroradiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2004-2005.
Imaging in Cancer Clinical Trials Course Certification, BRITI and the International Center for Postgraduate Medical Education (ICPME), Miami Beach, FL, 2011-2011.
Physician Leadership Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2015-2016.
Radiology Leadership Institute Leadership Proficiency Certificate Programs, American College of Radiology Radiology Leadership Institute with Babson College, 2015-2017.
VOICE Biomedical Big Data and Comparative Effectiveness Research Program, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York City, NY, 2016-2017.
Stanford RITE Improvement Program Certificate, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2020-2020.

Certifications
American Board of Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology, 2004.
American Board of Radiology, Neuroradiology, 2007.
American Board of Imaging Informatics, 2015.

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Description of Research Expertise

Pediatric Stroke and Neurocritical Care
Neuroimaging in Congenital Heart Disease
Brain Tumor Advanced Imaging
Morphometric Analysis of Craniofacial Disorders

Description of Clinical Expertise

Pediatric Neuroimaging/Neuroradiology
Adult Neuroimaging/Neuroradiology
MR Perfusion/Permeability Imaging
CT Angiography/CT Perfusion
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Temporal Bone and Ear Disease

Description of Other Expertise

Brain Tumor Imaging
MR Perfusion/Permeability Imaging
CT Angiography/CT Perfusion
Temporal Bone Imaging

Selected Publications

Jurkiewicz, M. T., Vossough, A., Pollock, A. N.: An Important Pediatric Stroke Mimic: Hemiplegic Migraine. The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques 47(2): 235-236, Mar 2020 Notes: Peer Reviewed Case Report.

Alves, C., Goldstein, A., Teixeira, S. R., Martin-Saavedra, J. S., de Barcelos, I. P., Fadda, G., Caschera, L., Kidd, M., Gonçalves, F. G., McCormick, E. M., Falk, M. J., Zolkipli-Cunningham, Z., Vossough, A., & Zuccoli, G.: Involvement of the Spinal Cord in Primary Mitochondrial Disorders: A Neuroimaging Mimicker of Inflammation and Ischemia in Children. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 42(2): 389-396, Jan 2021.

Hassankhani A, Stein JM, Haboosheh AG, Vossough A, Loevner LA, Nabavizadeh SA.: Anatomical Variations, Mimics, and Pitfalls in Imaging of Patients with Epilepsy. Journal of neuroimaging: official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 31(1): 20-34, Jan 2021.

Piccoli, C., Bronner, N., Gavazzi, F., Dubbs, H., De Simone, M., De Giorgis, V., Orcesi, S., Fazzi, E., Galli, J., Masnada, S., Tonduti, D., Varesio, C., Vanderver, A., Vossough, A., & Adang, L.: Late-Onset Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome: A Characterization of Presenting Clinical Features. Pediatric neurology 115: 1-6, Feb 2021.

Mamlouk, M. D., Vossough, A., Caschera, L., Maheshwari, M., & Hess, C. P.: Arterial Spin-Labeling Perfusion for PHACE Syndrome. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 42(1): 173-177, Jan 2021.

Kirschen, M. P., Licht, D. J., Faerber, J., Mondal, A., Graham, K., Winters, M., Balu, R., Diaz-Arrastia, R., Berg, R. A., Topjian, A., & Vossough, A.: Association of MRI Brain Injury With Outcome After Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Neurology 96(5): e719-e731, Feb 2021.

Gonçalves FG, Alves CAPF, Heuer B, Peterson J, Viaene AN, Reis Teixeira S, Martín-Saavedra JS, Andronikou S, Goldstein A, Vossough A.: Primary Mitochondrial Disorders of the Pediatric Central Nervous System: Neuroimaging Findings. Radiographics 40: 2042-2067, Nov-Dec 2020.

Karlin, A., Vossough, A., Agarwal, S., Jacobwitz, M. N., Virupakshaiah, A., & Beslow, L. A: Spinal Cord Infarct Due to Fibrocartilaginous Embolism. Neuropediatrics 52(3): 224-225, Jun 2021 Notes: Peer Reviewed Case Report.

Zheng, Q., Martin-Saavedra, J. S., Saade-Lemus, S., Vossough, A., Zuccoli, G., Gonçalves, F. G., Freeman, C. W., Ouyang, M., Singh, V., Padula, M. A., Demauro, S. B., Flibotte, J., Eichenwald, E. C., Detre, J. A., Sze, R. W., Huang, H., & Hwang, M: Cerebral Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion Weighted Imaging Predicts Language and Motor Outcomes in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Frontiers in pediatrics 8: 576489, Sep 2020 Notes: DOI: 10.3389/fped.2020.576489.

Gonçalves, F. G., Caschera, L., Teixeira, S. R., Viaene, A. N., Pinelli, L., Mankad, K., Alves, C., Ortiz-Gonzalez, X. R., Andronikou, S., & Vossough, A: Intracranial calcifications in childhood: Part 1. Pediatric radiology 50(10): 1424-1447, Sep 2020.

Beslow LA, Breimann J, Licht DJ, Waldman J, Fallacaro S, Pyeritz RE, Goldmuntz E, Vossough A.: Cerebrovascular Malformations in a Pediatric Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Cohort. Pediatric neurology 110: 49-54, Sep 2020 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.05.008.

Gonçalves, F. G., Caschera, L., Teixeira, S. R., Viaene, A. N., Pinelli, L., Mankad, K., Alves, C., Ortiz-Gonzalez, X. R., Andronikou, S., & Vossough, A: Intracranial calcifications in childhood: Part 2. Pediatric radiology 50(10): 1448-1475, Sep 2020.

Alves, C., Teixeira, S. R., Martin-Saavedra, J. S., Guimarães Gonçalves, F., Lo Russo, F., Muraresku, C., McCormick, E. M., Falk, M. J., Zolkipli-Cunningham, Z., Ganetzky, R., Vossough, A., Goldstein, A., & Zuccoli, G.: Pediatric Leigh Syndrome: Neuroimaging Features and Genetic Correlations. Annals of neurology 88(2): 218-232, Aug 2020.

Gonçalves, F. G., Hill, B., Guo, Y., Muraresku, C. C., McCormick, E., Alves, C., Teixeira, S. R., Martin-Saavedra, J. S., Zolkipli-Cunningham, Z., Falk, M. J., Vossough, A., Goldstein, A., & Zuccoli, G.: The Perirolandic Sign: A Unique Imaging Finding Observed in Association with Polymerase γ-Related Disorders. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 41(5): 917-922, May 2020.

Rozenblatt-Rosen, O., Regev, A., Oberdoerffer, P., Nawy, T., Hupalowska, A., Rood, J. E., Ashenberg, O., Cerami, E., Coffey, R. J., Demir, E., Ding, L., Esplin, E. D., Ford, J. M., Goecks, J., Ghosh, S., Gray, J. W., Guinney, J., Hanlon, S. E., Hughes, S. K., Hwang, E. S., Human Tumor Atlas Network: The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution. Cell 181(2): 236-249, Apr 2020 Notes: Multi-institutional collaborator.

Zhang, R., Lee, H., Zhao, X., Song, H. K., Vossough, A., Wehrli, F. W., & Bartlett, S. P.: Bone-Selective MRI as a Nonradiative Alternative to CT for Craniofacial Imaging. Academic radiology 27(11): 1515-1522, Nov 2020.

Gonçalves, F. G., Alves, C., & Vossough, A.: Updates in Pediatric Malignant Gliomas. Topics in magnetic resonance imaging: TMRI 29(2): 83-94, Apr 2020.

Cortese, M. M., Kambhampati, A. K., Schuster, J. E., Alhinai, Z., Nelson, G. R., Guzman Perez-Carrillo, G. J., Vossough, A., Smit, M. A., McKinstry, R. C., Zinkus, T., Moore, K. R., Rogg, J. M., Candee, M. S., Sejvar, J. J., & Hopkins, S. E: A ten-year retrospective evaluation of acute flaccid myelitis at 5 pediatric centers in the United States, 2005-2014. PLoS One 15(2): e0228671, Feb 2020.

Kirschen, M. P., Myers, S. R., Neuman, M. I., Grubenhoff, J. A., Mannix, R., Stence, N., Yang, E., Woodford, A. L., Rogers, T., Nordell, A., Vossough, A., & Zonfrillo, M. R.: Intracranial Traumatic Hematoma Detection in Children Using a Portable Near-infrared Spectroscopy Device. The western journal of emergency medicine 22(3): 789-791, Mar 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2020.11.47251.

Alves, C., Löbel, U., Martin-Saavedra, J. S., Toescu, S., Tsunemi, M. H., Teixeira, S. R., Mankad, K., Hargrave, D., Jacques, T. S., da Costa Leite, C., Gonçalves, F. G., Vossough, A., & D'Arco, F.: A Diagnostic Algorithm for Posterior Fossa Tumors in Children: A Validation Study. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 42(5): 961-968, May 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A7057.

Feygin, T., Goldman-Yassen, A. E., Licht, D. J., Schmitt, J. E., Mian, A., Vossough, A., Castelo-Soccio, L., Treat, J. R., Bhatia, A., & Pollock, A. N.: Neuroaxial Infantile Hemangiomas: Imaging Manifestations and Association with Hemangioma Syndromes. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 42(8): 1520-1527, Aug 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A7204.

Tierradentro-García, L. O., Saade-Lemus, S., Freeman, C., Kirschen, M., Huang, H., Vossough, A., & Hwang, M: Cerebral Blood Flow of the Neonatal Brain after Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury. American journal of perinatology 5: 10.1055/s-0041-1731278, Jul 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1731278.

Weidman, E. K., Zandifar, A., Vossough, A: Benign longitudinal T2-hyperintense signal in the lateral cord in infancy: a cross-sectional study of spinal cord white matter maturation on magnetic resonance imaging. Pediatric radiology 51(11): 2069-2076, Oct 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.1007/s00247-021-05115-7.

Zimmerman, C. E., Khandelwal, P., Xie, L., Lee, H., Song, H. K., Yushkevich, P. A., Vossough, A., Bartlett, S. P., & Wehrli, F. W: Automatic Segmentation of Bone Selective MR Images for Visualization and Craniometry of the Cranial Vault. Academic radiology Suppl 3: S98-S106, Mar 2022 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2021.03.010.

Wisnowski, J. L., Bluml, S., Panigrahy, A., Mathur, A. M., Berman, J., Chen, P. K., Dix, J., Flynn, T., Fricke, S., Friedman, S. D., Head, H. W., Ho, C. Y., Kline-Fath, B., Oveson, M., Patterson, R., Pruthi, S., Rollins, N., Ramos, Y. M., Rampton, J., Rusin, J., HEAL Study Group: Integrating neuroimaging biomarkers into the multicentre, high-dose erythropoietin for asphyxia and encephalopathy (HEAL) trial: rationale, protocol and harmonisation. BMJ open 11(4): e043852, Apr 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043852.

Vu, G. H., Xu, W., Go, B. C., Humphries, L. S., Kalmar, C. L., Taylor, J. A., Bartlett, S. P., Vossough, A., Nah-Cederquist, H. D., & Swanson, J. W: Physiologic Timeline of Cranial-Base Suture and Synchondrosis Closure. Plastic and reconstructive surgery 148(6): 973e-982e, Dec 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000008570.

Beslow, L. A., Vossough, A., Ichord, R. N., Slavova, N., Yau, M., Gajera, J., Stojanovski, B., Adil, M. M., Breimann, J., Kimmel, A., & Mackay, M. T: Association of Pediatric ASPECTS and NIH Stroke Scale, Hemorrhagic Transformation, and 12-Month Outcome in Children With Acute Ischemic Stroke. Neurology 13: 10.1212, Aug 2021 Notes: DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012558.