Profile Detail

David Fetzer, MD

Assistant Professor
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Interest (in 3 to 10 words): Ultrasound; research

Education
Bachelor of Science, Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology, 2004
Medical / Graduate School M.D.
University of Texas Health Houston McGovern Medical School, 2008
Residency Transitional Residency
University of Texas Health Houston Medical School, 2009

Diagnostic Radiology
University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Completion: May 2013
Clinical / Post-doctoral Fellowship Abdominal Imaging
University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Completion: May 2014
Current Assistant Professor
Abdominal Radiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Roentgen Ray Society
Radiological Society of North America American College of Radiology
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine Texas Medical Association
Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound
Society of Abdominal Radiology
Society of Advanced Body Imaging (Formerly SCBT-MR)
Specialties
& Programs
MR
CT
Ultrasound
Clinical
Pre-clinical
Translational
Digital Imaging
Clinical Interest Ultrasound; chronic liver disease; HCC screening, surveillance and diagnosis; contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS); quantitative ultrasound, including liver fat and fibrosis quantification; abdominal intervention.
Research Interest Performance and confounders of US-based HCC screening/surveillance.

Ultrasound elastography.

Ultrasound-based liver faty quantification.

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound, quantitative perfusion and microvascular imaging.

AI in ultrasound image analysis and decision support.
Selected Publications   REFEREED ARTICLES from UPMC:

Fetzer DT, Furlan A, Wang JH, Kantartzis S, Sholosh B, Bae KT. CT Cholangiography in Living Liver Transplant Donors: Factors Determining the Degree of Contrast Enhancement. JCAT. 2011, Nov-Dec;35(6):716-22.

Fetzer DT, Furlan A, Wang JH, Kantartzis S, Sholosh B, Bae KT. Computed tomographic cholangiography in living liver transplant donors: Factors determining the degree of contrast enhancement. Journal of computer assisted tomography. 2011 Nov; 35(6) : 716-722. https://doi.org/10.1097/RCT.0b013e318237284c PMID:22082542.

Furlan A, Aghayev A, Chang CH, Patil A, Jeon KN, Park B, Fetzer DT, Melissa S, Roberts MS, Bae KT. Short-Term Mortality in Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Clot Burden and Signs of Right Heart Dysfunction Measured on CT Pulmonary Angiography Imaging. Radiology. 2012

Delfyett WT, Fetzer DT. Imaging of Neurologic Conditions During Pregnancy and the Perinatal Period. Neurologic Clinics. 2012 Aug; 30(3) : 791-822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ncl.2012.06.003 PMID:22840790.

Knollmann FD, Kumthekar R, Fetzer D, Socinski MA. Assessing response to treatment in non-small-cell lung cancer: Role of tumor volume evaluated by computed tomography. Clinical Lung Cancer. 2014 Mar; 15(2) : 103-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cllc.2013.11.001 PMID:24361250.

Reynolds AR, Furlan A, Fetzer DT, Sasatomi E, Borhani AA, Heller MT, Tublin ME. Infiltrative hepatocellular carcinoma: What radiologists need to know. Radiographics. 2015 ; 35(2) : 371-386. https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.352140114 PMID:25763723.

Bergerson JT, Lee JG, Furlan A, Sourianarayanane A, Fetzer DT, Tevar AD, Landsittel DP, Dimartini AF, Dunn MA. Liver transplantation arrests and reverses muscle wasting. Clinical Transplantation. 2015 Mar; 29(3) : 216-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.12506 PMID:25557648.

Fetzer DT, Rees MA, Dasyam AK, Tublin ME. Hepatic sarcoidosis in patients presenting with liver dysfunction: imaging appearance, pathological correlation and disease evolution. European Radiology. 2016 Jan; : 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-015-4169-2 PMID:26780641.

Sinelnikov A, Qu C, Fetzer DT, Pelletier JS, Dunn MA, Tsung A, Furlan A. Measurement of skeletal muscle area: Comparison of CT and MR imaging. European Journal of Radiology. 2016 Oct; 85(10) : 1716-1721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2016.07.006 PMID:27666607.
Honors and  
Awards
2015 Innovation Award, SABI
2015 Certificate of Merit, RSNA
2015 Completion of Competitive Grant Proposal Workshop
2015 Distinguished Reviewer for Abdominal Radiology
2015 Resident Conference of the Month-January
2016 Top Scored Poster, International Liver Cancer Association
2016 Resident Conference of the Month-March
2016 Clinical Trials Methodology Workshop
2018 Resident Conference of The Month- January
2018 Certificate of Merit, ARRS
2017 Distinguished Reviewer for Abdominal Radiology
2019 Leaders in Clinical Excellence, Rising Star Award, UT Southwestern
2020 Distinguished Reviewer for Abdominal Radiology
2021 Magna Cum Laude award for education exhibit, RSNA
2020 Radiology Editor's Award with Special Distinction
2020 Certificate of Appreciation, Case of the Day, RSNA 2020
2020 Fellow, AIUM
2021 Poster of Distinction, Digestive Disease Week
2021 Radiology Editor's Recognition Award for reviewing with Distinction
2021 Editors Recognition Award for Reviewing with Distinction, RadioGraphics
2022 RSNA Honored Educator Award
2022 Cum Laude Award for Educational Exhibit, RSNA
2022 Radiology Editors Recognition Award for reviewing with Distinction
2023 Certificate of Appreciation, RSNA
PubMed Publications   See a listing of publications on PubMed, a service of the National Library of medicine.