SUDHA CHALLA MD

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Email: ad20du@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over twenty years of experience as a Radiologist. Twenty years of teaching. ER radiology, Body Imaging, Neuroradiology, Mammography, Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT.

MBBS: 04/79: Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

DMRD: 04/82: Madras University, Madras, India.

ECFMG: 12/82. Valid. VQE: 12/82. FLEX: 12/90.

ABR : 2001

Professional Licenses: New York, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Florida.

WORK HISTORY

08/22 – Current: Teleradiology for Med. Search International, Radiology Partners. ER, Inpatient and outpatient radiology. Teleradiology for PROSCAN.

07/20 – 12/22: Radiologist for Envision Physician Services.

10/19 – 03/20: Staff Radiologist at Desert Regional Medical Center, Palm Springs, CA. Trauma Radiology, General Radiology, Pediatric Radiology, Nuclear Medicine including PET/CT, Ultrasound, Body MRI and Neuro-MRI.

10/15 – 5/19: Staff Radiologist at Kern Medical, Bakersfield, CA. Emergency Radiology, Mammography, Ultrasound, Body Imaging including MRI, Neuro-radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Pediatric Imaging. Have taught medical students, Emergency department and Family Practice residents.

04/11-09/15: Part time /Locum Radiologist: Kern Medical and Truxton Radiology, Bakersfield, CA.

05/07-03/11: Staff Radiologist, Kern Medical, Bakersfield, CA.

11/04-2/07: Chief, Division of Emergency Radiology and Staff Radiologist at Staten Island University Medical Center, Staten Island, New York.

7/2001-9/04: Assistant Clinical Professor, Radiology, NY, Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn, NY. Trauma and Body imaging Radiologist at King’s County Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

12/87-02/90: Tutor, Department of Radiology, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India.

09/84-08/87: Staff Radiologist, Apollo Hospitals, Madras, India.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

07/13-06/14: Nuclear Medicine Fellow, LAC-USC, Los Angeles, CA

07/99-06/01: Diagnostic radiology resident; SUNY, Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, NY.

08/97-06/99: NIH Diagnostic Oncology Fellow; Division of Nuclear Medicine; Dept. of Radiology; UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, California.

07/94-06/97: Resident, Nuclear Medicine, VA Medical Center, Long Beach, California. One year of Research in Nuclear Medicine in LBVA Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

07/93-06/94: Fellow in Pediatric Radiology, UCLA Medical Center and Olive View Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

07/91-06/93: Instructor in Radiology, Tufts University Medical Center and New England Medical Center Hospitals, Boston, MA. General Radiology, Mammography and Body Imaging.

04/90-03/91: NIH Research fellow in Abdominal Imaging, University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.

04/80-02/84: Resident in Radio-diagnosis; Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India.

04/72-03/79: Medical Student. Guntur Medical College, Guntur. One year of Internship in the Government General Hospital, Guntur, India.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

1. S Challa, I Dusaj, V Kumar, R Mehrotra: “Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis. A case report.” Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences. 1984; Vol.26, no: 4, 263-266.

2. S Challa, S Rao, B Dhalla and A Gajajraj: “Radiological evaluation of renal transplants.” Annual Indian Radiological Association (IRIA) conference. January 1986.

3. S Challa, S Rao, B Dhalla and A Gajaraj: “The role of computed tomography and angiography in the evaluation of intracranial lesions – a review of 1400 cases.” Annual Indian Radiological Association (IRIA) conference, January 1987.

4. S Challa, A Jebakumar, M George and RR Williams: “Hemorrhagic adrenal pseudocyst in an adult - a case report.” Australasian Radiology. 1989; Vol.33:402-403.

5. FJMiller, DJ Filmore, S Challa and EJ Wagner: “Experimental clot fragmentation coupled with spray fibrinolysis: Results with a new delivery system.” Seventy seventh scientific assembly and annual meeting of the RSNA, 1991.

6. MJ Homer and S Challa: “The role of mammography in breast conservation therapy.” Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology. 1993; Vol.16, 1-6.

7. KP Lyons, S Challa, P Broekelschen and N Milne: “The relative sensitivity of Tc99m WBC scan versus an In 111 WBC scan – a case report.” Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 1997; Vol.22:359-362.

8. KP Lyons, S Challa, N Milne and WT Brown: “Pancreatitis secondary to endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography on a whole body Ga-67 scan.” Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 1997; Vol.22:565-566.

9. S Challa and JH Miller: “Symmetric tibial stress fractures from extensive jump roping.” Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 1997; Vol.22:860-861.

10. S Challa, N Milne, WT Brown and KP Lyons: “Ga-67 uptake in a perisplenic fluid collection: Planar and SPECT Images” Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 1997; Vol. 22: 870-872.

11. S Challa and JH Miller: “Extraskeletal uptake of Tc MDP in sites of Heparin injection – a case report.” Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 1988; Vol.39:893-895.

12. S Shadan, A Bhat, S Challa, D Price, EJ Small and RA Hawkins: “The Utility of Prostascint Scintigraphy for Prostate Cancer Metastases or Recurrence.” {Abstract} Presented at the 84th Scientific Assembly of the Radiological Society of North America.

13. S Shadan, S Challa and R Hawkins : “An unusual presentation of thromboemolism on a lung perfusion scan. A case report.” Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 1999; Vol. 24: 684-686.

14. S Challa, N Milne and KP Lyons: “The Utility of 24 hour Tc99m MDP bone scans in the diagnosis of osteomyelitis” {Abstract}. Presented at the 24th. Annual Western Regional Meeting, Society of Nuclear Medicine; October, 1999.

15. S Challa, Carl Hoh, G Caputo and R A Hawkins: “Self Study Syllabus – 4. Positron Emission Tomography for Tumor Imaging.” Published by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 1999.

16. S Challa, Elias H Botvinick, Edward Neymark, David Price and Randall A Hawkins: “An unusual presentation of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma: A case report.” Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2000; Vol.25:150-151.

17. KP Lyons, S Challa, Donald Abraham and Brian M Kenelly: “Floating gall bladder: A questionable prelude to torsion: a case report.” Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2000; Vol.25:182-184.

18. S Challa, Randall A Hawkins and Gary R Caputo: “Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Brain Tumors” Chapter in Brain Cancer – Atlas of Clinical Oncology” Published by B C Decker Inc.,2002.

19. P Conti, S Challa, H Jadvar, J Pinski, M Gross, T Dorff, D Quinn : “ Initial Post approval clinical experience with Radium 223 dichloride in patients with prostate cancer.” Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2014.

20. H Jadvar, S Challa, D I Quinn, P Conti : “One year Post-Approval Clinical Experience with Radium – 223 Dichloride in Patients with Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer.” Submited to Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals.

21. Manish Amin, Alex Huang, Sudha Challa, Phillip Aguiniga-Navarette, Laura C Castro and Donya Sarrafian: “Mercury Ingestion.” Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2018; 2(4):353-354.

22. Ronald O Crandall, MS, Sudha Challa MD: “Automated and Standardized Quantification of Mild Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in Computed Tomography.” Poster presentation and talk at the Kern Medical Research Foundation on 5/2/2019.

23.Ronald O Crandall, MS, Sudha Challa MD, Osman Tahir DO: “Four simultaneous anterior cerebral artery aneurysms (3 initially unsuspected) with surgical treatment. Radiol Case Rep. 2019; 14(12):1533-1538.

Professional Membership: ARRS since 2002, ACR.

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