Drew Torigian, MD

Faculty Titles & Positions

• Attending Staff, Department of Radiology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 2002 - Present
• Active Staff, Department of Radiology Presbyterian Medical Center 2002 - Present
• Active Staff, Department of Radiology Pennsylvania Hospital 2002 - Present
• Clinical Director, Medical Image Processing Group (MIPG), Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania Medical Center 2014 - Present
• Assistant Professor of Radiology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2003 - 2011
• Associate Professor of Radiology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2011 - 2018
• Professor of Radiology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 2018 - Present

Awards

• 2003 Excellence in Teaching by a Radiology Fellow Award Year  
• American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) Network Chair's Institutional Achievement Award 2006  
• American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) Network Chair's Institutional Achievement Award 2009  
• American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) Network Chair's Institutional Achievement Award 2011 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 
• 2013 British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Award for "Torigian DA, Kitazono MT 2013  
• Fellow of the Society of Abdominal Radiology (FSAR) 2014  
• Fellow of the American College of Radiology (FACR) 2017  
• Distinguished Investigator Award, Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research 2018  
• Expertscape World Expert (in the top 0.1% of scholars over the past 10 years) in Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 2021  

Treatments

• Medical Imaging, Body Imaging, Mri (magnetic Resonance Imaging)

Professional Memberships

• American College of Radiology (Member 1997 - present, Radiology Research Impact Committee Member 2013 - 2015)  
• American Roentgen Ray Society  
• Association of Academic Radiology  
• Radiologic Society of North America  
• Society of Abdominal Radiology  
• Society of Thoracic Radiology  
• Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging  
• Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania  
• The Pennsylvania Radiological Society, Eastern PA Section  

Fellowships

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Body and Musculoskeletal MRI  2003

Internships

• New York University School of Medicine

Fellowships

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Body and Musculoskeletal MRI

Professional Society Memberships

• Abramson Cancer Center (UPMC) , ACR, SRR, ARRS, ITMAT (UPMC), RSNS, SAR, SCBTMR SNMMI, STR, PRS (Eastern PA section)

What do you attribute your success to?

• I attribute any success that I have to God--to Jesus Christ. Also to my parents, who encouraged me when no one else did. I was a math major at Johns Hopkins and medical school hadn\'t crossed my mind, when a fellow student suggested medicine as a career path for me. I was intrigued at the thought and made an appointment to discuss it with my advisor. He discouraged me from pursing medicine. Fortunately my parents didn\'t share his opinion, and their encouragement was all I needed to move in that direction. I got into medicine because I wanted to help people, and I get to do that in every one of my roles here at Penn Medicine. As a clinician I read scans and that\'s one way to help. As a professor I teach others to read scans, teaching and mentoring our future doctors; in that way I get to help our patients and the students. And as a researcher, I get to help develop better ways to serve our patients, so what we in the research capacity is helping patients of the future. That is an incredibly rewarding feeling.

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