University of California San Francisco

David Avrin - 144
David E.
Avrin
MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Radiology
Department of Radiology

Address

185 Berry Street Bldg B, #B20
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 415-476-4796
Fax: 415-502-3217

Awards & Honors

Award Conferred By Date
Academic Radiology Editor's Recognition Award Association of University Radiologists 2014
Speaker American Board of Medical Specialties at the White House-sponsored National Policy Forum Arlington 2010
Certificate of Merit RSNA InfoRad Exhibit RSNA 2005
Certificate of Merit infoRAD Exhibit Radiological Society of North America 2005
Award for service on ACR Committee on DICOM Standards; Commission on Standards & Accreditation American College of Radiology Distinguished Committee Service 2001
Associate Editor RadioGraphics, Informatics (infoRAD) 2001
Fellow Society of Computer Applications in Radiology 2000
Fellow American College of Radiology, Washington, DC 1999
Best Paper of Session; European Congress of Radiology; Vienna, Austria European Congress of Radiology 1993

Education

Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
Stanford University Hospital Resident Diagnostic Radiology 1979
University of California San Francisco Visiting Fellow Department of Radiology 1979
Stanford University Hospital Intern Radiology and Medicine 1976
Stanford University M.D. School of Medicine 1975
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D 1974
Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S./M.S. 1967

Board Certifications

American Board of Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology

Clinical Expertise

Chemoembolization
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Primary Liver Cancer)
Interventional Radiology
Liver Transplantation

Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 60
  1. Salary Equity-Progress, but not Quite There.
    Bredella MA, Avrin D| | PubMed
  2. The "P" in HIPAA Stands for Portability.
    Avrin D| | PubMed
  3. Editorial.
    Avrin D| | PubMed
  4. Making Technology Work for Radiologists.
    Avrin D| | PubMed
  5. Impact of PACS-EMR Integration on Radiologist Usage of the EMR.
    Mongan J, Avrin D| | PubMed
  6. Interventional Radiology in the United States: Who Does Your Intervention Depends on Where You Are Located.
    Avrin D| | PubMed
  7. Correlate: A PACS- and EHR-integrated Tool Leveraging Natural Language Processing to Provide Automated Clinical Follow-up.
    Kovacs MD, Mesterhazy J, Avrin D, Urbania T, Mongan J| | PubMed
  8. The Economic and Social Value of an Image Exchange Network: A Case for the Cloud.
    Mayo RC, Pearson KL, Avrin DE, Leung JW| | PubMed
  9. Patient Radiation Dose Reduction during Transarterial Chemoembolization Using a Novel X-Ray Imaging Platform.
    Kohlbrenner R, Kolli KP, Taylor AG, Kohi MP, Fidelman N, LaBerge JM, Kerlan RK, Agarwal VK, Lehrman ED, Nanavati S, Avrin DE, Gould R| | PubMed
  10. Faculty scheduling: it should be easy.
    Avrin D| | PubMed
  11. Providing formal reports for outside imaging and the rate of repeat imaging.
    Lu MT, Tellis WM, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  12. Can hospital-based cellular phones improve on-call communication?
    Naeger DM, Jafri NF, Webb EM, Avrin D, Qayyum A| | PubMed
  13. Demise of film.
    Avrin DE, Urbania TH| | PubMed
  14. Meaningful use for radiology: current status and future directions.
    Morgan TA, Avrin DE, Carr CD, Dreyer KJ, Flanders AE, Khorasani R, Langlotz CP, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  15. Cross-specialty integrated resident conferences: an educational approach to bridging the gap.
    Naeger DM, Phelps A, Kohi M, Patel A, Elicker B, Ordovas K, Urbania T, Avrin D, Qayyum A| | PubMed
  16. Reducing the rate of repeat imaging: import of outside images to PACS.
    Lu MT, Tellis WM, Fidelman N, Qayyum A, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  17. Enterprise imaging: planning and business justification.
    Avrin D, Hou SW| | PubMed
  18. Moving the mission forward: annual report from the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee for 2010.
    Avrin DE, Flanders AE| | PubMed
  19. Perforation of the IVC: rule rather than exception after longer indwelling times for the Günther Tulip and Celect retrievable filters.
    Durack JC, Westphalen AC, Kekulawela S, Bhanu SB, Avrin DE, Gordon RL, Kerlan RK| | PubMed
  20. Clinician-educator pathway for radiology residents.
    Naeger DM, Phelps A, Shah V, Avrin D, Qayyum A| | PubMed
  21. Annual Report from the RSNA Radiology Informatics Committee for 2009.
    David E. Avrin, Adam E. Flanders| | UCSF Research Profile
  22. Using applet-servlet communication for optimizing window, level and crop for DICOM to JPEG conversion.
    Kamauu AW, DuVall SL, Wiggins RH, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  23. Informatics in radiology: IHE teaching file and clinical trial export integration profile: functional examples.
    Kamauu AW, Whipple JJ, DuVall SL, Siddiqui KM, Siegel EL, Avrin D| | PubMed
  24. HIPAA privacy and DICOM anonymization for research.
    Avrin D| | PubMed
  25. Using Java to generate globally unique identifiers for DICOM objects.
    Kamauu AW, Duvall SL, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  26. Translating the IHE Teaching File and Clinical Trial Export (TCE) profile document templates into functional DICOM structured report objects.
    Kamauu AW, DuVall SL, Liimatta AP, Wiggins RH, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  27. Informatics in radiology (infoRAD): Vendor-neutral case input into a server-based digital teaching file system.
    Kamauu AW, DuVall SL, Robison RJ, Liimatta AP, Wiggins RH, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  28. Storage, transmission, and retrieval of digital mammography, including recommendations on image compression.
    Avrin D, Morin R, Piraino D, Rowberg A, Detorie N, Zuley M, Seibert JA, Pisano ED| | PubMed
  29. Development of a dedicated hepatopancreaticobiliary program in a university hospital system.
    Granger SR, Glasgow RE, Battaglia J, Lee RM, Scaife C, Shrieve DC, Avrin D, Mulvihill SJ| | PubMed
  30. infoRAD 2005: your best resource for informatics education.
    Avrin DE| | PubMed
  31. CT and MRI of hepatic contour abnormalities.
    Lipson JA, Qayyum A, Avrin DE, Westphalen A, Yeh BM, Coakley FV| | PubMed
  32. RadioGraphics, informatics, bill G, and open source.
    Avrin DE| | PubMed
  33. infoRAD 2004: why you need informatics education at RSNA 2004.
    Avrin DE, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  34. Beyond PACS: getting images to referring physicians.
    Avrin D, Wiggins RH, Bahr C| | PubMed
  35. Informatics at RSNA 2003: evolution and maturation on all fronts.
    Avrin DE, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  36. Avoiding unread images with PACS.
    Avrin DE, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  37. Informatics at RSNA 2002: Information Technology Moves to the Mainstream at RSNA 2002.
    Ronald L. Arenson, David E. Avrin| | UCSF Research Profile
  38. RIS minus PACS equals film.
    Tellis WM, Andriole KP, Jovais CS, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  39. Automated examination notification of emergency department images in a picture archiving and communication system.
    Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Weber E, Luth DM, Bazzill TM| | PubMed
  40. Measuring the academic radiologist's clinical productivity: applying RVU adjustment factors.
    Arenson RL, Lu Y, Elliott SC, Jovais C, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  41. Measuring the academic radiologist's clinical productivity: survey results for subspecialty sections.
    Arenson RL, Lu Y, Elliott SC, Jovais C, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  42. What Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) could look like in common object request broker (CORBA) and extensible markup language (XML).
    Van Nguyen A, Avrin DE, Tellis WM, Andriole KP, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  43. A hierarchical storage management (HSM) scheme for cost-effective on-line archival using lossy compression.
    Avrin DE, Andriole KP, Yin L, Gould RG, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  44. Computers in imaging and health care: now and in the future.
    Arenson RL, Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Gould RG| | PubMed
  45. Relevant priors prefetching algorithm performance for a picture archiving and communication system.
    Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Yin L, Gould RG, Luth DM, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  46. Secure, web-accessible call rosters for academic radiology departments.
    Nguyen AV, Tellis WM, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  47. Simulation of disaster recovery of a picture archiving and communications system using off-site hierarchal storage management.
    Avrin DE, Andriole KP, Yin L, Gould R, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  48. PACS databases and enrichment of the folder manager concept.
    Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Yin L, Gould RG, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  49. The future of teleradiology in medicine.
    Avrin DE, Andriole KP| | PubMed
  50. Continuing quality improvement procedures for a clinical PACS.
    Andriole KP, Gould RG, Avrin DE, Bazzill TM, Yin L, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  51. Web technology in the integration of a digital teaching file at the diagnostic workstation.
    Tellis WM, Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  52. The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology.
    Avrin D| | PubMed
  53. Optimization of a low-cost truly preemptive multitasking PC diagnostic workstation.
    Ghosh S, Andriole KP, Avrin DE, Arenson RL| | PubMed
  54. The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology.
    David Avrin| | UCSF Research Profile
  55. Viewport: an object-oriented approach to integrate workstation software for tile and stack mode display.
    Ghosh S, Andriole KP, Avrin DE| | PubMed
  56. The Society of Computer Applications in Radiology.
    David Avrin| | UCSF Research Profile
  57. The Society for Computer Applications in Radiology.
    David Avrin| | UCSF Research Profile
  58. Cost benefits of picture archiving and communications systems.
    Arenson RL, Burnside ES, Avrin DE, Gould RG, Huang HK, Marco RP| | PubMed
  59. Multimedia in the radiology environment: current concept.
    Huang HK, Arenson RL, Lou SL, Wong AW, Andriole KP, Bazzill TM, Avrin D| | PubMed
  60. Real-time analysis of myocardial contractility.
    Brody WR, Arvin DE, Angell WW| | PubMed