Achala Donuru, MBBS, MRCPCH, DCH, FRCR
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology
Active Medical Staff, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Active Medical Staff, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Active Medical Staff, The Chester County Hospital, West Chester, PA
Attending, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Network Practice Optimization Team Leader, cardiothoracic imaging, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Wellness program director, cardiothoracic imaging division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Radiology
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Radiology
3400 Spruce St.
1 Silverstein, Ste. 130
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology
3400 Spruce St.
1 Silverstein, Ste. 130
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-955-3797
Education:
M.D (Doctor of Medicine)
Gandhi Medical College, Andhra Pradesh University of Health Sciences, India, 1998.
DCH (Diploma in Child Health)
Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom, 2002.
MRCPCH (Membership of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health)
Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom, 2002.
FRCR (Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists)
Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom, 2007.
Permanent linkM.D (Doctor of Medicine)
Gandhi Medical College, Andhra Pradesh University of Health Sciences, India, 1998.
DCH (Diploma in Child Health)
Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom, 2002.
MRCPCH (Membership of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health)
Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom, 2002.
FRCR (Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists)
Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom, 2007.
Selected Publications
Rebecca Zhang, Achala Donuru: Spectrum of Pulmonary diseases from Aspergillus ARRS Annual Meeting April 2023.Muhammad Danial, Edward Choe, Aminot Oshobajo, Maruti Kumaran, Achala Donuru: Central Venous Catheters and Thoracic Venous Anatomy. Society of Thoracic Radiology March 2023.
Taylor Standiford, MD, Maruti Kumaran, MD, Friedrich Knollman, MD PhD, Achala Donuru, MD,: Chest Trauma Trauma Computed Tomography – A comprehensive guide. Springer 2023.
Achala Donuru, MD; Tetsuro Araki, MD, PhD; Farouk Dako, MD,MPH; Eduardo Jose Mortani Barbosa JR, MD; Peter B. Noel, PhD; Harold Ira Litt, MD, PhD; Friedrich D. Knollmann, MD, PhD: Photon-Counting Detector CT Allows Significant Reduction in Radiation Dose While Maintaining Image Quality and Noise on Non-contrast Chest CT. Oral Presentation - RSNA Annual meeting December 2022.
Tetsuro Araki MD PhD, Achala Donuru MD, Eduardo Barbosa MD, Scott Simpson DO, Arun Nachiappan MD, Narainder Gupta MD, Drew Torigian MD : Beyond 5T's: Pearls and Pitfalls in Diagnosis of Anterior Mediastinal Masses RSNA annual meeting December 2022.
Abbas Noor, MD, Michele Herschman MD, Scott Simpson DO, Achala Donuru MD, Friedrich Knollman MD PhD : Prognostic Value of Vascular Abnormalities in Dual Energy CT Compared with Visual CT Severity Score in Patients Suspected of COVID-19 and Acute Pulmonary Artery Embolism RSNA annual meeting December 2022.
Achala Donuru MD, Friedrich Knollman MD PhD : Uncommon Causes of Interlobular Septal Thickening: How to Tell Them Apart? RSNA annual meeting December 2022.
Achala Donuru, Vinay Kandula, Peace Madaume : Innominate Artery Compression Syndrome Aorta 10(3/2022): 145-146, November 2022.
Patrick Lee, Aylin Tahmasebi, Jaydev K. Dave, Maansi R. Parekh, Maruti Kumaran, Shuo Wang, John R. Eisenbrey, Achala Donuru : Gray-scale Inversion to Detect Pulmonary Nodules on Chest x-rays - Radiologists versus Deep Convolutional Neural Network: A Pilot Study. Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. Elsevier November 2022.
David Saul, Vinay Kandula, Achala Donuru, Christian Pizarro, Mary Patricia Harty: Large aortic pseudoaneurysm after Bentall procedure in a patient with Marfan's syndrome. Annals of Pediatric Cardiology 15(3): 314-316, November 2022.