Faculty & Staff

Hanna M Zafar, MD MHS

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Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Radiology

Contact information
One Silverstein
Department of Radiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215 615 0422
Fax: 215 746 3890
Education:
BA (Biological Basis of Behavior)
University of Pennsylvania , 1991.
MHS (Health Policy)
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School Hygiene and Public Health, 1998.
MD
Jefferson Medical College, 2002.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, 2002-2003.
Resident, Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2007.
Fellow, Abdominal Imaging, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, 2007-2008.
Certifications
American Board Radiology, 2007.
American College of Radiology, CT Colonography, 2008.
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Selected Publications

Zopf J, Langer J, Boon W, Kim W, Zafar HM: Development of Automated Detection of Radiology Reports Citing Adrenal Findings. Journal Digital Imaging Volume 25(1): 43-49, 2012.

Harsha A, Itri J, Hilton S, Zafar HM: Implementing a web-based procedure log application to track complication rate and diagnostic yield for imaging-guided diagnostic procedures RSNA Annual Meeting 2011 December 2011.

Zopf J, Langer J, Boonn W, Kim W, Zafar HM: Development of Automated Detection of Radiology Reports Citing Adrenal Findings' SPIE Medical Imaging, Conference Abstracts February 2011.

Shortt CP and Zafar, HM : MRI of the Knee. Chapter 44: Radiology Secrets 3rd ed. Elsevier 2011.

Jason Poff, Babak Saboury, Anna Rives, Negar Foroughi, Hanna Zafar, F Hofheinz, Abass Alavi, Drew Torigian: Reproducibility of FDG-PET/CT Quantification in Colorectal Cancer with a Novel Image Analysis Methodology. RSNA Annual Meeting 2010 December 2010.

Poff JA, Rives A, Saboury B, Foroughi N, Zafar H, Hofheinz F, Alavi A, Torigian D.: Anatomic Dependence of Tumor Metabolism in Colorectal Cancer as Quantified with a Novel FDG-PET/CT Image Analysis Methodology. Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. Vienna, Austria. October 2010.

Zafar HM, Mahmoud NN MD, Mitra N, Wirtalla C, Armstrong K, and Groeneveld PW: Adoption of FDG-PET in resected colorectal cancer among Medicare beneficiaries. Radiology 254(2): 501-8, February 2010.

Ankola A, Zafar HM, Coleman B: Pitfalls in OB Ultrasound. ARRS Categorical Course Syllabus Annual Meeting April 2009

Hanna M. Zafar MD MHS, Anna S. Lev-Toaff, Andrea Frangos, Diane Bergin: CT Colonography after Failed or Incomplete Optical Colonoscopy: Gender & Previous Hysterectomy as Factors 9th Internal Syumposium Virtual Colonography October 2008.

Zafar HM, Litt HI, Torrigian DA. : CT Imaging Features and Prevalence of Left Ventricular Myocardial Fat in Subjects with CT Findings of Chronic Left Ventricular Myocardial Infarction. Clinical Radiology 63(3): 256-262. 2008.

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