Duke Radiology Research Day

Thank you to all of our presenters, judges, and attendees who made the inaugural 2026 Radiology Research Day a big success! Details for Radiology Research Day 2027 will be forthcoming in Fall 2026.

Congratulations to our 2026 Radiology Research Day Awardees:

Best Overall
Nick Perkons, M.D.
“Intravascular Ultrasound-Guided Transcaval Cisterna Chyli Access for Lymphatic Intervention: A Proof-of-Concept Study in a Porcine Model”
Mentor: Brendan Cline, M.D.
Training Level: Resident

Best Oral Presentation
Katie Olivas, Medical Physics Graduate Program
“A Quantitative Framework for Opportunistic Bone Health Screening Using Photon-Counting CT Localizer Radiographs”
Mentor: Ehsan Abadi, Ph.D.; Ehsan Samei, Ph.D.

Best Undergraduate Poster
Kunyu (Kimi) Du
“Same-Session Repeatability of Single-Breath Fractional Ventilation Measurements Derived from 129Xe Gas Exchange MRI”
Mentor: David Mummy, Ph.D.

Best Medical Student Poster
Soren Christensen
 “Photon-Counting Detector vs. Energy-Integrating Detector CT Myelography
for Detecting CSF-Venous Fistulas in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Lower
Radiation Dose”
Mentor: Timothy J Amrhein, M.D.

Best Trainee Poster
Nick Perkons, M.D.
“EPIC Workflow Changes to Improve Interventional Radiology Consult Triage and Reduce Overnight Paging Volume”
Mentor: Charles Kim, M.D.
Training Level: Resident

Best Graduate Student Posters
Seth Lee, Medical Physics Graduate Program
“Improving the precision of hyperpolarized 129Xe MR spectroscopy using heart rate-based spectral averaging”
Mentor: Bastiaan Driehuys, Ph.D.

Fong Chi Ho, PhD Student
“Task-specific Evaluation of Photon-Counting CT Using a 3D-Printed Anthropomorphic Lung Phantom with COPD Pathology”
Mentor: Ehsan Abadi, Ph.D.

Research Day Program

Duke Radiology Research Day will be held on Thursday, January 29, 2026 
Great Hall, Trent Semans Building
 
The Department of Radiology is pleased to host the first annual Radiology Research day on Thursday, January 29, 2026 in the Great Hall, Trent Semans Building. 

Any students or trainees participating in radiology research are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the event. Research groups in the Department of Radiology are also invited to present a brief digital presentation of their work.

Top abstracts will be selected to give a 6-minute podium presentation. Awards for the best presentations in clinical and basic science categories will be determined by a select faculty panel and will be presented at the lunch event. 
 
Individuals eligible to present their research include fellows (MD or PhD), residents, graduate students, medical students, and undergraduate students working in a lab and/or contributing to research within the Department of Radiology. 

Abstracts

Deadline

Abstracts and applications for research group digital presentations must be submitted by November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM.

Research may be previously presented or published prior to the submission date. All submissions will require in-person attendance for the duration of Research Day on January 29, 2025 from 7:30 to 9:00 AM.

Abstract submissions

Lab Expo sign up

Schedule of Events

Research Symposium 
Great Hall, Trent Semans Building

2026 Radiology Research Day Archive